Did YOU have a white Christmas?

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We got about an inch of snow Tuesday night and it stayed cold enough until today to wake up to see snow on the ground. But then it warmed up enough today that most of it melted. It's supposed to be 60 here tomorrow so it will be totally gone.

We live in that "between" part of the country right now. Somewhere between our original home (Chicago) where we rarely didn't have a white Christmas, and our second home (Houston) where we enjoyed our shorts and barefeet on Christmas day. The "between" part means that you can flip a coin about whether the weather will be warm or cold and the coin will probably be right. This year, it was white but warm.
 
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Originally Posted by KittKatt



My son IS saying
this right now! I keep telling him he should just move to Texas, and get it over with!
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Well, my family moved to Texas (Jacksonville) in about December, 1978 and it turned out to be one of the coldest winters on record. Lots of highs in the teens and twenties and several ice storms. We had moved to a farm, so we had to go out several times a day and get the ice out of the water for the horses and chickens. So even in Texas you can get some pretty bad weather unless you go all the way down to Houston or maybe even Brownsville.

As for me, no snow in East Tennessee this Christmas. I had my windows open yesterday and the high today approached 60. For the last several years we've averaged maybe 1-2 dustings per Winter and even those usually happen in January or February.
 
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Mr. Bing (which cracks me up because I think of 'Friends') Crosby would be suddenly disappointed. We had major snow and cold, 4-6 inches and 26-12 degree weather. Then suddenly it decided to rain and go up to 56 degrees yesterday, today high 40's, sunny! I admit I was happy, it got rid of all the ice! Sorry Mr. Crosby!
 
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Originally Posted by tierre0

To be perfectly honest Bing Crosby would most likely look out my window at the 4 foot banks along the street and say "
this I'm heading south"
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I am in the middle of B.C. Canada we always have a white Christmas.
 
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I know who Bing Crosby is but I suppose answering the 3rd choice means who cares?

My sister in Montreal emailed me about her "White Christmas". A blizzard. Not very nice.
 
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For all of you who are in need of some white stuff please take some of mine, I have plenty
It has been snowing hard for the past 24 hours with the wind blowing. We have cleaned the driveway 5 times and it is piling up again. I ask the dogs if they want to go out and go potty, they just look at me like, yeah right
 
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We've got about three feet worth of White Christmas here. Would you like me to send you some, Lee?
 
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I usually don't get a white Christmas. It's almost always bare & brown around here. This year we not only had Arctic temps, we had quite a bit of snow. Not only did we have snow but a ton of ice too! XMas Eve was at my neices and she had so much snow & ice at the end of her driveway [where the snowplows had dumped the street ice & snow] that I had to really gun my motor to get over the hump! fortunately the main thouroughfares were clear but the side streets were all dangerous skating rinks!

Tomorrow they're predicting the 50's with a chance of it hitting the 60's! All the snow & ice is gonna melt & they're now predicting flash floods!
 
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Originally Posted by Grogs

Well, my family moved to Texas (Jacksonville) in about December, 1978 and it turned out to be one of the coldest winters on record. Lots of highs in the teens and twenties and several ice storms. We had moved to a farm, so we had to go out several times a day and get the ice out of the water for the horses and chickens. So even in Texas you can get some pretty bad weather unless you go all the way down to Houston or maybe even Brownsville.
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Granted, we do occasionally have a "bad" winter here now & then, but it's rare, and if it does get really cold, it doesn't last long. I've been here almost 7 years now, and I've only seen freezing rain twice, and snow just once (this year actually - about 2 weeks ago. But it all melted by the next day). So even if it does get cold, it doesn't last long, and doesn't drag on for month after month.
 
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Cold and rainy here. Not cold enough for snow but just right for a fire in the wood stove.
 
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Oh yeah! We had a White Christmas! Too white!

Had almost 2 feet of snow. I've been delivering the mail in that *stuff* for over a week.

We even postponed Christmas on both sides of our family. We're doing DH's on Sunday and my family next Sunday.

Now we have to worry about flooding cuz it's raining like crazy. But I prefer rain...I won't melt!
 
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humm TOO WHITE for me .... at the smallest point there is 3.5 ft my drifts are like 6 ft ...
 
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I'd love to have another white Xmas. I haven't seen a white Xmas in 5 years or so. I miss it. It was in the 60s at my parents house (where we're spending this Xmas weekend), and in the 70s where we live.
 
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