White Christmas

The song White Christmas was inspired by the writer's fond memories of growing up with White Christmases. The writer was in Sunny Southern California where snow is a rarity. Similar to that is the weather along the Texas Gulf Coast. Well the forcasters had talked about a slight chance of snow flurries right before Christmas. Well the system really turned and 3" of snow was on the ground before you knew it! Never did I imagine that I would experience a White Christmas in Texas! The sight was Surreal! Houston received their first recorded snow fall in 15 years. A city just 50 miles SW of Houston (Victoria) received a record 13". The surpassing the snow that the city had received in the last 100 years combined. Then you go to extreem South Texas The southern most point in Texas, Brownsville, where no snow had ever fallen since the city started keeping records over 120 years ago. These are all beach cities (except Victoria) and think of the site as a sunny paradise getting bombarded in a snow storm. The site on the Newscast showing people at the beach building snowmen with a blanket of snow on the ground and the waves crashing in the background! Did hell freeze over? Nope just happened to be the right mixture a low and high. The cold Canadian Artic front with the Gulf moisture being pulled. It was fun enjoying the snow fights even building a small foot tall snowman. Im sure I will see snow again in Texas but probably never experience another White Christmas!

ALBERT