Posted on 12/25/2004 12:27:05 PM PST by BellStar
Old Man Winter pays county a visit
By TJ Aulds The Daily News
Published December 25, 2004
Let it snow. The promise of a white Christmas arrived late Friday night just as many were headed home from Christmas Eve gatherings or to midnight mass.
While most of the county received a good dusting of snow throughout the day Christmas Eve, the heaviest of the white stuff blanketed most of the county shortly before 10 p.m.
With the snow and icey road conditions came a flurry of accidents. Texas City, La Marque police departments responded to a high number of accidents in the hours just before midnight. Galveston police hand their hands full with five accidents on the Causeway between 10 and 11:30 p.m.
While the connecting bridges remained opened as of 11:45 p.m. Friday, police were cautioning drivers that the Causeway remained passable only at speeds of less than 20 miles an hour.
Patrick Blood, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in League City, said travelers should be cautious on exposed roadways and bridges.
The last time snow fell and accumulated in Galveston County was 1989. Even the island received about an inch of snow, which was driven in gusts over a deserted Seawall Boulevard and eventually rolled into snowmen, according to the book A Century of Galveston Weather by island resident Stan Blazyk.
Carter Thompson contributed to this report.
A look back US way.
You'll enjoy this. I was stationed in Spain in 1968..two us had leave over the hildiays. we decided to go Rome for Christmas. It snowed in Rome that holiday..first time in over 100+ years. I remeber the Romans..kids and adults, standing ont he SDpanish steps and trying to "taste" the snowflakes with their tongues..
Happy White Christmas!
More proof of global warming.
Now that you bring it up.........hmmm!
This just in from a friend who wrote.......I have the correct scietifickal answer to your Christmas Eve meteorological phenomenon. It's caused by global warming, of course! If it gets any warmer, there will be icebergs in Galveston Bay!
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