Re: It's snowing in Houston right now
Latest update: the snow coming down has decreased significantly. What is landing on the streets and sidewalks is melting, but what's on the grass has mostly remained such that all plant life has a very light layer of snow. Best of all, "Little Poop Eater" is scared to death of it! He's never seen snow or felt such cold weather, so he refuses to go out into the backyard! This from a breed that comes from Japan where snow and almost freezing temperatures are the norm, not an exception.
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."
-- E.L. Doctorow
