Ok so it's December and boy does it feel like it. It is 17 degrees outside, WOW. That is unheard of in this part of TX. I am originally from the panhandle (what a nice word to use to describe a part of a state, I wonder what's cooking in the pan??). Anyway, we get snow in Amarillo in the winter. But Dallas usually gets one ice storm and that's it. It is so funny when it gets cold down here. The news stations go crazy. They make their poor news people stand outside in the freezing cold and take a ruler to measure the 1/4" of snow on the ground!! They also come up with wonderful names for their coverage of the storm. Fox was calling it the "ARTIC BLAST". Ok come on, I mean it was 24 hours of some sleet and cold temperatures. Doesn't seem like an artic blast to me. Maybe we need to make some rules for what an artic blast actually entails.

And then there is driving in the snow and on the ice. People down here are crazy drivers when it rains. There are wrecks everywhere and the news is telling people to take it easy because the roads are slick. It's water!!! So you have two extremes of people that drive in these conditions. The first one we will call BUBBA. Bubba ain't scared of nothing. He is either in his too big for the road truck or is old camaro. He drives like a mad man, going 80 mph wherever he goes and always ends up smashed into something. And sadly enough he doesn't learn his lesson because next time he will be out doing the same thing. Next you have SLOW POKE. They go 10 mph everywhere they go. And when they are 200 yards from the intersection they start to tapping their brakes. I think there should be driving tests in the snow and they should teach everyone what safe is. You would think that the insurance companies would want to do something like that.

But alas, the cold won't last for long it will be in the high 40's by tomorrow. So I will just have to keep dreaming of that white Christmas.