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OT - IT SNOWED
IT SNOWED! IT SNOWED! IT SNOWED!! Houston just got its 0.000000000001%
annual snowfall all in one day. BTW, be sure to check out the prints in the snow: http://www.possibleplaces.com/snowfall/ -- Hugs, /\.../\ ( '.' ) (")_(") CatNipped See all my masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/ |
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OT - IT SNOWED
"CatNipped" wrote in message ... IT SNOWED! IT SNOWED! IT SNOWED!! Houston just got its 0.000000000001% annual snowfall all in one day. BTW, be sure to check out the prints in the snow: http://www.possibleplaces.com/snowfall/ -- Hugs, /\.../\ ( '.' ) (")_(") CatNipped See all my masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/ Amazing! I'm about 140 miles north of you, and we did not get any snow. We did get rain, and it got cold enough last night to freeze (but melted very quickly). I got some pretty photos of water dripping from brightly-colored leaves. Interestingly, it did not affect any of my flowers. I have sasanqua camellias in bloom, and the "second blooming" of my azaleas has started. I also have a lot of seed-heads that look like flowers on my fatsia. All are still in fine shape. I got some nice pics of them and also of the Japanese maples in their glorious red foliage last week, so I may post a few pictures in a day or so. I was really sorry to read about DH's job loss. That would be truly frightening. MaryL |
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"CatNipped" wrote in message ... IT SNOWED! IT SNOWED! IT SNOWED!! Houston just got its 0.000000000001% annual snowfall all in one day. BTW, be sure to check out the prints in the snow: http://www.possibleplaces.com/snowfall/ -- Jessie's teeny patties. Figures. -- Theresa and Dante drtmuirATearthlink.net Stinky Forever: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh |
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"CatNipped" wrote in message ... IT SNOWED! IT SNOWED! IT SNOWED!! Houston just got its 0.000000000001% annual snowfall all in one day. BTW, be sure to check out the prints in the snow: http://www.possibleplaces.com/snowfall/ LOL! I guess you don't ever have much snow then? It was whiter than that on Monday when I got up here and it was just a very hard frost. I hate snow that comes in inches. It rarely does, but we Brits are not geared up to any type of snow, we crawl to work in our cars and it's on the television news every time we get some. When N was here one January she was very amused to see that snowfall was important enough to be on the news here. Germans just change the tyres on their cars and keep inside the roadside markers, fluorescent spots one side, stripes the other when they don't know where the road is because of the snow. Tweed |
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OT - IT SNOWED
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:57:41 -0600, "CatNipped"
wrote: IT SNOWED! IT SNOWED! IT SNOWED!! Houston just got its 0.000000000001% annual snowfall all in one day. BTW, be sure to check out the prints in the snow: http://www.possibleplaces.com/snowfall/ You must have had the same front that blew through here (and Mary's house). The forecast here called for flurries with little or no accumulation, but all we had was a dreary looking WINDY day. We don't normally get much snow either, guess we're not far enough north. Our dangerous winter precipitation comes as freezing rain and ice. Once, years ago, it took me 4 hours to get from the airport in Ok City, which is about 90 miles ne of 4 lane highway. -- Steve Touchstone Little Bit, Sammy, Spotty, Princess, Furby and Rocky (RB) Pix at http://tinyurl.com/22pfn8 Vids at http://tinyurl.com/4yb6nj |
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"Steve Touchstone" wrote in message ... On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:57:41 -0600, "CatNipped" wrote: IT SNOWED! IT SNOWED! IT SNOWED!! Houston just got its 0.000000000001% annual snowfall all in one day. BTW, be sure to check out the prints in the snow: http://www.possibleplaces.com/snowfall/ You must have had the same front that blew through here (and Mary's house). The forecast here called for flurries with little or no accumulation, but all we had was a dreary looking WINDY day. We don't normally get much snow either, guess we're not far enough north. Our dangerous winter precipitation comes as freezing rain and ice. Once, years ago, it took me 4 hours to get from the airport in Ok City, which is about 90 miles ne of 4 lane highway. -- Steve Touchstone Little Bit, Sammy, Spotty, Princess, Furby and Rocky (RB) Pix at http://tinyurl.com/22pfn8 Vids at http://tinyurl.com/4yb6nj This is not the same thing, but you reminded me... ;o) I drove my mother from Ohio to Texas the year she moved in with me. I became her sole caregiver for 5 years but had to transfer her to a nursing home when she became completely bedridden. (She lived there for another 5 years and 9 months.) We left Ohio on Dec. 31. We hit a tremendous blizzard when we were "trying" to drive through Tennessee. I drove less than 100 miles from 8:00 a.m. until nearly 12:00 noon. At that time, we were close to Dyersburg, so I headed for there, and we holed up for two days before it was safe to start again. Just to keep this on topic with cats: My cat was with me, and the motel we reached had a "no-pets" policy. I begged and pleaded and offered to leave a deposit. The person behind the desk finally took pity on me because I was *not* going to leave my cat in the car, and conditions outside were "not fit for man nor beast." So, he took a security deposit and let us stay on condition that they could check the room before we left. I got the entire deposit back because they could not even see any signs that we had a cat -- I always travelled with a small hand vacuum just so I could pick up any litter or fur that might be left behind. MaryL |
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On Dec 10, 6:57*pm, "CatNipped" wrote:
IT SNOWED! *IT SNOWED! *IT SNOWED!! *Houston just got its 0.000000000001% annual snowfall all in one day. *BTW, be sure to check out the prints in the snow: *http://www.possibleplaces.com/snowfall/ -- Hugs, * /\.../\ ( '.' ) *(")_(") CatNipped See all my masters at: *http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/ We had a snow storm yesterday and today with about a foot of snow. I didn't take any picture. But there is one in the newspaper at http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Looking...499/story.html I had a hard time trudging through the knee deep snow on the sidewalk to the bus stop after work yesterday. Today the buses are on strike and I stayed home all day. Good thing a friend offered to give me a ride to do grocery on the weekend. Winnie |
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"CatNipped" wrote in message ... IT SNOWED! IT SNOWED! IT SNOWED!! Houston just got its 0.000000000001% annual snowfall all in one day. BTW, be sure to check out the prints in the snow: http://www.possibleplaces.com/snowfall/ -- Hugs, /\.../\ ( '.' ) (")_(") CatNipped See all my masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/ We are getting freezing rain right now (10:00 p.m. Wed., Dec. 10), and a number of roads are closed. I haven't seen snow for several years, but freezing rain is always more deadly and also more damaging to plant, downed power lines, etc. MaryL |
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"Christina Websell" wrote in message
... "CatNipped" wrote in message ... IT SNOWED! IT SNOWED! IT SNOWED!! Houston just got its 0.000000000001% annual snowfall all in one day. BTW, be sure to check out the prints in the snow: http://www.possibleplaces.com/snowfall/ LOL! I guess you don't ever have much snow then? It was whiter than that on Monday when I got up here and it was just a very hard frost. I hate snow that comes in inches. It rarely does, but we Brits are not geared up to any type of snow, we crawl to work in our cars and it's on the television news every time we get some. When N was here one January she was very amused to see that snowfall was important enough to be on the news here. Germans just change the tyres on their cars and keep inside the roadside markers, fluorescent spots one side, stripes the other when they don't know where the road is because of the snow. Tweed No, this is only the 4th time in my life (of 57 years so far) that I've ever even seen snow. Funny, the last time was just after Katrina and I was talking to my daughter about it - her youngest, Raven, was very upset about the snow because she associated it with the disaster they lived through after Katrina (the two weather phenomena have become associated in her mind). Then on the news last night the weather expert made the same observation - that it has snowed here in Houston only in the winters after we've had bad hurricanes hit. Weird. I guess in telling how bad Ike was, we got *3 INCHES* of snow by my house!!! That is completely unheard of here in Houston! Hugs, CatNipped |
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"MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER wrote in message
. .. "CatNipped" wrote in message ... IT SNOWED! IT SNOWED! IT SNOWED!! Houston just got its 0.000000000001% annual snowfall all in one day. BTW, be sure to check out the prints in the snow: http://www.possibleplaces.com/snowfall/ -- Hugs, /\.../\ ( '.' ) (")_(") CatNipped See all my masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/ We are getting freezing rain right now (10:00 p.m. Wed., Dec. 10), and a number of roads are closed. I haven't seen snow for several years, but freezing rain is always more deadly and also more damaging to plant, downed power lines, etc. MaryL I had a real scare coming in to work this morning. Even when it just rains, the truck is highly likely to spin-out on slick streets - the rear end of a truck is so much lighter than the front end that it gets no traction. There was one overpass this morning that was covered with a thick sheet of ice. I did fine as long as traffic was moving at a steady 15MPH clip. But at one point, just at an incline, traffic slowed to a stop and I had to apply the gas pedal lightly. The back end of my truck swung frighteningly close to the guard rail of the overpass and my heartrate went through the roof. Thankfully there was no other cars around me, so a very small, steady pressure on the gas pedal finally got the truck straightened out. There are *SO* many accidents down here when the weather gets like this - people literally don't know how to drive here when there is ice on the roads (there isn't a store within 1,000 miles that would have anything even resembling tire chains)! There must have been 10 - 15 multiple car pile-ups here this morning! Hugs, CatNipped |
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