Snow in Texas

It's snowing today. Well, Texas snowing. Texas snow is much different than other snow.

It usually consists of it finally getting into the 30s during the day. Then we get rain. Lots and lots of rain, making everything all soggy and muddy and gross. After everything is all soggy and gross, the air somewhere up there drops to freezing, and the mass amounts of rain that's been coming down starts coming down slightly whiter. It slowly turns from plopping white rain (that's really what it is) to snowflakes.

Of course, the snowflakes are no longer snowflakes at the exact moment that they hit the ground, because usually it was 70 degrees the day before and the ground is not quite ready to allow the snow to stick as snow. Eventually, enough of it falls that the cars and dead grass have a thin layer of protection against the warmer ground and then they start to look white-ish.

The roads generally do not accumulate actual snow. Instead, the temperature drops to the 20s or so during the night and the roads are now ready to allow snow to stick. Only, it's not snowing anymore. Or raining. The roads are just very, very wet from the snow and rain and it all freezes. So now you have roads covered with a nice, thin sheet of ice.

Everything shuts down, because those of us in the south can't handle actual weather, and we all write on Facebook and Twitter about the "winter storm" that has hit us. We stay inside for a day, then the temperature goes back into the 70s and melts everything and life may continue as normal.

And that, my friends, is Texas snow.