Mary Beth,
Hey, a snowman is a snowman, and that's a pretty decent one, for Houston. I figured you had a lot more snow down there, than we did, because when it got to us, it split and sorta went around us.
Last year, on December 9th, I went to Florida to pick up a truck, and when I came back through Houston, about midnight, on the night of the 12th, there was still some snow on the ground in places, so it must have snowed there on the 11th, exactly a week later than it snowed there this year. It also snowed there on Christmas, 2004. That's three years with a December snowfall, out of the last 6 years. Prior to that, though, Houston rarely ever saw any significant snow, more frequently than about once every 10 or 15 years. Hmmmmm. That doesn't sound much like global warming, does it.
Tex