Christmas Blizzerd of 2012

[Steven Ogborn]

I live in Texas. I shouldn't have to put up with this !!! http://s1066.photobucket.com/albums/...lizzard001.jpg

[Mr.Beeman]

You have more snow there than I do here in MI! lol

[sqkcrk]

Ho, ho, ho, you call that snow? Hardly a dusting. I'd show you snow if it weren't dark here already. I bet what you have will be gone tomorrow.

[honeyman46408]

Looks like frost

[hpm08161947]

Looks like a Blizzard to me. I'd show you spring weather with the bees flying if it were not dark. I can almost hear Mark's bees saying "Thank you Mark!".

[Beregondo]

You can see WAY more than three feet...and no one had to climb out a window to clear snow from the door.
A blizzard is BIG snow...if you think that's big, it explains an awful lot about Texans thinking everything in Texas is big...

This is what big snow and a blizzard look like.
Not Texas little "snow."

[westernbeekeeper]

We have 2 feet right now.

[westernbeekeeper]

This is what big snow and a blizzard look like.
Not Texas little "snow."

We used to get similar stuff regularly about 2 years ago.

[Steven Ogborn]

Yeah, I know. Just trying to be funny. I knew you northern guys would jump on it. You can have it back if you want it.
Where's that global warming at?

[ajs32]

rumor has it we are due for 10-14" of course now that Christmas is done i am ready for spring and workin the hives!

[Andrew Dewey]

Maybe I'm cursing us by saying so but no snow of consequence here thus far. A few dustings is all, and they have pretty much melted.

[Steven Ogborn]

You can see WAY more than three feet...and no one had to climb out a window to clear snow from the door.
A blizzard is BIG snow...if you think that's big, it explains an awful lot about Texans thinking everything in Texas is big...

This is what big snow and a blizzard look like.
Not Texas little "snow."

My Dad grew up in Illinois. He used to talk about how they'd run a rope from the house to the barn, so they could keep the trench
straight.

[sqkcrk]

Where's that global warming at?

In front of the word "at"?

[Slow Modem]

Only the higher elevations around here might get some snow flurries. Most of us around here need to batten down the hatches and hang on.

From the NWS:

STRONG AND POTENTIALLY DAMAGING SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT FOOTHILLS.

We had a 3-hour power outage last night because of a main power line being down. Listening to the scanner, it sounded like they only did a temporary fix. So if the weather gets bad, we may have another outage tonight. But I've got a fire going in the fireplace just in case.

[BeeGhost]

Nice picture, but how much flocking did you have to buy to do that?

[Steven Ogborn]

Nice picture, but how much flocking did you have to buy to do that?

No flocking. That's the real deal. Had to take a picture, because you only see it a couple of times a year
around here. A guy where I work was talking about how his girlfriend was all happy about hearing that we
might get some snow. She just moved up here from the Austin area. Well, she got a little anyway.

[BeeGhost]

I was just kidding, a buddy of mine in Midlothian sent me a picture of him and his kids in the snow, crazy!

[ralittlefield]

Maybe I'm cursing us by saying so but no snow of consequence here thus far.

Yup! There is a storm coming in tonight!

[sqkcrk]

No flocking.

"flocking"? Never heard that term before. What is flocking?

[Rader Sidetrack]

What is flocking?

All kinds of flocking here:
https://www.craftflocking.com/

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$28 for 1 cubic foot
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