# OMG! It's snowing in Houston! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 24, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-its-snowing-in-houston/281503 "2004-12-24T18:18:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-its-snowing-in-houston/281503/1 "2004-12-24T18:18:47Z")
It’s not sticking. But it shore is purty! I wouldn’t wish what’s happening in the north on anyone, and I’m sorry for y’all. But it’s snowing! In Houston! Wow. I haven’t seen snow in probably 10 years. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-its-snowing-in-houston/281503/2 "2004-12-24T18:39:04Z")
Sounds like Mrs. Claus went over the Miser boys’ heads again. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-its-snowing-in-houston/281503/3 "2004-12-24T19:19:32Z")
My nieces are greatly annoyed. They’ve never seen snow. This year they flew up to the grandparents in New York for Christmas and got to enjoy the snow. Until today when they called home and found out their friends back home also had snow. Believe me, if they were old enough to register you’d have seen quite a pit thread on this. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-its-snowing-in-houston/281503/4 "2004-12-24T22:28:09Z")
We’ve had flurries several times today in my area. I’m going to set the sprinkler out on the kid’s playground tonight and hope for an ice palace for the a.m.! ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-its-snowing-in-houston/281503/5 "2004-12-24T23:24:53Z")
Yes, it is snowing, from here to Webster at least I just got home from there and it is colder than blue hades and people are driving like idiots. It’s not because the roads are icy, it’s because they are hypnotised by the flakes falling. I’m glad I grabbed hot chocolate mis and marshmellos while I was out ! ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-its-snowing-in-houston/281503/6 "2004-12-25T04:14:54Z")
Wow, my area is having actual “accumulation” and it’s sticking. Woo hoo! ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-its-snowing-in-houston/281503/7 "2004-12-25T04:18:18Z")
Apparently at least in a few places around the city there was a tiny, itty bitty, hint of a few flakes of snow. None where I am, unfortunately – the concept of a white Christmas in New Orleans is hilariously weird, though. And yes, that’s stretching the definition of a white Christmas, but any sort of snow here is so very rare that I think it just might qualify. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-its-snowing-in-houston/281503/8 "2004-12-25T04:18:27Z")
I just got home from the present opening at my folks. While there my uncle from Houston called his brother, my dad. I heard my dad say “What?! It’s snowing? Amazing!” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-its-snowing-in-houston/281503/9 "2004-12-25T04:19:33Z")
A Christmas simulpost! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-its-snowing-in-houston/281503/10 "2004-12-25T04:26:39Z")
I think it’s the closest we’ve ever come to snow at Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-its-snowing-in-houston/281503/11 "2004-12-25T04:27:33Z")
I’m on the west side. It’s quit now, but all the cars and rooftops are white. It’s beautiful. I can’t wait to see it in daylight. A semi-white Christmas! Who’da thunk it? ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-its-snowing-in-houston/281503/12 "2004-12-25T04:28:30Z")
I just wish I’d seen a few flakes with my own eyes. Meanwhile, my SO is visiting his family in Detroit and it snowed several inches there on Wednesday, the day after he arrived. Lucky him. I want to be there! There’s nothing more romantic than snow, when you’re visiting it and will be leaving in a few days. _g_ Next year. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-its-snowing-in-houston/281503/13 "2004-12-25T04:35:13Z")
I just got off the phone with my mom in San Antonio, and it’s snowed there, too. The Boston Red Sox won the World Series, and now snow in South Texas? Surely, these are signs of the End Times! Robin ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-its-snowing-in-houston/281503/14 "2004-12-25T04:55:39Z")
Question for you South Texas folk: Does it ever snow around the Brownsville/Port Isabel area? If so, how frequently? I suppose there’s a way I could Google for the answer, but I’d rather hear from those I know. ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-its-snowing-in-houston/281503/15 "2004-12-25T05:18:38Z")
My God, it’s beautiful. I’m in Lake Jackson, 50 miles south of Houston, and it’s snowing like the dickens, and sticking. It looks like we could be in Michigan for all the snow! I’ve lived in tropical or sub-tropical climes all my life and I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Frankenbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c0e974/32.png) [@Frankenbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankenbear)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-its-snowing-in-houston/281503/16 "2004-12-25T06:14:05Z")
I live just northwest of Houston and didn’t get any snow at all. Not even a few flakes. I feel cheated. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Revedge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@Revedge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revedge)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-its-snowing-in-houston/281503/17 "2004-12-25T06:21:45Z")
As of midnight there are several inches of snow on the ground here in Dickinson. This will be my first white Christmas. (I am 46) I am so sad that I will not be able to call my dad and tell him about it because he passed away oct 29th. I thought I was somewhat over the grieving, then something like this happens and I miss him even more. It is so wonderful though! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-its-snowing-in-houston/281503/18 "2004-12-25T07:34:04Z")
\*\* {{{Revedge}}} \*\* I’m right there with you my friend. I was at the Cemetary today at about 3 pm (she is buried at Forest Park East, not too far from you) placing flowers on Mom’s grave and decorating a little bush that ia at the head of the grave, after I finished it started snowing pretty hard. All I could do was cry because she wasn’t there with me to enjoy the beauty of the snow falling. I hate this. Sorry for the hi-jack \*\* Dolores Reborn \*\* ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-its-snowing-in-houston/281503/19 "2004-12-25T08:10:43Z")
> [@Loopus](#): > > My God, it’s beautiful. > > I’m in Lake Jackson, 50 miles south of Houston, and it’s snowing like the dickens, and sticking. It looks like we could be in Michigan for all the snow! I’ve lived in tropical or sub-tropical climes all my life and I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s amazing. (And I thought it was cold in Austin!) Damn… I’ve got to pick someone up from Lake Jackson in a couple days… and although I’ve been a New Yorker and a Vermonter long enough to drive in snow, I don’t trust the rest of y’all Texans… Surely it won’t be cold enough that it’ll end up sticking for long? ---
**Author:** ![davmilasav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@davmilasav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davmilasav)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-its-snowing-in-houston/281503/20 "2004-12-25T12:55:16Z")
Got up this morning and was pleasantly surprised to see there is still snow here in Dickinson! I ran outside with my camera, took a bunch of pictures and made a mini-snowman. Then I e-mailed all my friends and told them about our white Christmas. They will all think I’m nuts because it’s not like I’ve never seen snow before; I grew up in the Pittsburgh area. But I haven’t seen the white stuff since I moved here in 1996. Off to add to my snowman family… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-its-snowing-in-houston/281503.md?page=2)