It has been cold and raining for two solid days. I barely slept last night as I kept on getting up to check the kitchen for leaks, fortunately, we did not get any.
The "S" word had been in the forecast for areas northwest of us but I generally do not believe the weather people. The alarm went off this morning but I have it far away from me so I can not reach it unless I get up. I have it set to a local radio station where I learned that it had snowed heavily in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila as well as other states and then crossed the border into Texas.
While Del Rio did not receive snow, Brackettville (30 miles away) and Eagle Pass (60 miles south of us), as well as other little towns in between, were lucky enough to see it. I have a love-hate relationship with snow. When I was going to school at Sul Ross State in Alpine, Texas it snowed a lot and I fell on more than one occasion.
However, snow is not common in Houston or for that matter Del Rio so I do not mind experiencing it every decade or so. As I was watching the 6:00 p.m. news the anchors were very excited because it was snowing in Uvalde, Hondo and then moved into the northern part of San Antonio.
Then it started reaching other areas of San Antonio and it was snowing heavily. The official reading at the airport was 1.9 inches and everyone was excited including me! Last time they had measurable snow was back in 1985...32 years ago.
Loved watching videos of little kids experiencing their first snowfall. I did not experience mine until I was nine years old. I will never forget back in high school when an exchange student from Africa started crying because she had never seen snow in her life. She was lucky as it took place in April and by that time it is already in the 90's here.
If it snows it will happen in the early morning hours so the chance of me seeing it are slim to none. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.....:-)
Good night. May you all have Terlingua Dreams.
