I'm so looking forward to a 5"+ snowpack on my roof. Snow, when it melts, is much more inventive about leaking it's way into my den.

Wallace, I know you're still waiting on a hailstorm to get you a new roof, but, pard, it ain't happening! Just bite the bullet and call Roofs by Nicholas. That is, once the snow melts.

I feel bad for you guys. Snow, wet snow especially, is something I wouldn't wish on anyone who doesn't own a snowblower.

Snowblowers are a bit like Noah's Ark. The neighbors might think you're crazy, but when you need it

...you'll really need it.

Do they have snow shovels in Texas?

Don't feel bad for us. The snow has stopped falling and it's melting quickly (I don't think the temp ever dropped below 32, so it was doomed from the start).

We have snow shovels, but we use 'em for other things. ;-)

Eric, it's been years since I've had to go out front of the house and try to remember which snowdrift is my car.

I LOVE winter in West Texas! There's a brisk chill in the air, the snow falls, and we have an enchanting, almost 'Currier & Ives-like' scene outside the window ...

Speaking of scenes ... watching West Texans navigate winter-slick roads would be hilarious ... if I didn't have to share the road with them.

By afternoon, the sun returns, it warms up, the snow is gone, and some semblance of sanity returns to the roadways ... at least until the freshlymelted snow re-freezes overnight!

And my Mom wonders why never come 'back home' to the northeast for Christmas!

I with you, Jeff. I prefer a climate where snowfall is rare enough to be an object of delight.

The downside to that is that we have to watch your TV news colleagues trot out their annual "live from the side of the highway" reports as they remind us that (1) ice is slick, (2) freezing weather is cold ["so bundle up!"] and (3) "black ice" is scary. ;-)

Eric, you're absolutely right. Jordan Williams last night; Antoinette Antonio and Sarah Holland this morning.

I did thank them for the deference they showed their 'elderly' peer ... allowing Darrell Ward to do his reports indoors while the 'kids' did theirs outside.

Whether or not I present that imptression to Darrell, though, remains to be seen. :-)

I have friends donning a new roof courtesy of Roof's By Nicholas even as we speak. I have a low angle of pitch roof with tar and gravel [actually lava rock] covering. No way in hell that wind or hail is gonna' damage that so I'm stuck for the cost myself either way. We're thinking of going with a metal roof which would look good on our style of architecture and would, hopefully, be the last roof I'd ever have to buy. They're twice as expensive however.

We had a tar-and-pea-gravel roof on our house in Fort Stockton when I was growing up. It did weather well, but made a terrible mess in the lawn after a hard rain or a hailstorm.

I like the metal roofs, but you're right in stating that they only work on the right architecture. And some of them look pretty cheesy...I suspect that you get what you pay for. MLB would like to have one on our house, but she recognizes the economic realities.

Metal roofs are VERY LOUD during hailstorms...

The snow started around 7:45 when I left for work. The bridges weren't icy at all (judging by the 9 overpasses I drove on the Loop from Thompson to Fairgrounds). I stepped outside at 10:00 and snow was sticking to the ground. By noon on my drive home, that snow had melted and it was left on the rooftops. By 2, it started snowing pretty heavily, and started sticking again. I took Caesar (my dog) out and he loved it (started trying to catch snowflakes). By 3:00 there was no trace of snow anywhere in town. It looked as if it had just rained a bit. We got 1.6 inches at the airport (.15 of precip) but we probably recieved around 2 1/2 at my house. My mom said the first snowfall was an inch and I measured the second one at an inch and a half (measured on top of the other car where it piles up real quick). The remarkable thing was that the MPD did not report one single accident as of 5PM (according to the MRT). The threat of bad driving conditions when in reality they weren't bad at all made drivers slow down.