{"id":68,"date":"2007-11-23T17:08:52","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T22:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/23\/white-thanksgiving-in-west-texas\/"},"modified":"2007-11-23T17:30:47","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T22:30:47","slug":"white-thanksgiving-in-west-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/23\/white-thanksgiving-in-west-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"White Thanksgiving in West Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"11.23.07<\/a><\/p>\n

\"11.23.07<\/a><\/p>\n

I know, it’s been a while since I have posted. Between being really busy with some paying projects, and a bunch of “stuff” going on over on StormTrack I just haven’t been able to get motivated to find a little extra time to post here. More on the StormTrack stuff in another post later.<\/p>\n

We had a white Thanksgiving here for the first time since I can remember. A white Thanksgiving in West Texas is even more rare than a white Christmas. In fact, prior to this even Lubbock only had snow on the ground 9 times since 1911. All of those were only trace amounts except in 1934 which was 1″. In 1980 there was 7″ of snow on the ground from a previous snowfall that dumped 11 inches the day before. Here at my location southwest of Lubbock we had only the second day EVER on record of being below freezing. The previous only Thanksgiving day it remained below freezing was in 1952 where it reached only 28. I need to see what our high here where I live officially was, we may have set a new record. My weather station is wireless and the battery is run down, and only works when the sun is out until I can get a new battery (solar powered).<\/p>\n

After the snow got going right around 9 a.m. (good call there NWS) , I got started cooking. Thanksgiving I usually cook most of the meal. I actually like to cook, but don’t do it all that often. I guess it’s pretty good, everyone eats it including the dogs! LOL I was quite busy most of the day yesterday cooking enough food to last us a week. We had the usual turkey and I mesquite smoked a ham as well. I’ll be eating plenty of sandwiches off that one! Let’s see, what else… dressing with giblet gravy of course, smoothest mashed potatoes you ever saw, green bean casserole (a Thanksgiving staple!), a broccoli\/cheese casserole, my patented sweet potatoes, deviled eggs…the list goes on and on! Oh and the deserts! Pumkin pie, pecan pie, banana pudding. Ok, I am getting hungry again!<\/p>\n

We ended up taking a couple of plates over to the manager and another employee next door working at Allsups. We know the manager pretty good. She doesn’t live here and was stuck working all day, so at least she didn’t have to eat “World Famous Allsups Burritos” TM for Thanksgiving! Watched a movie after that and played some Halo on Xbox with the kids til it was time to crash out. I hope everyone else got to pig out as much as I did for Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n

Well, on the heels of our little snowstorm, looks like we are in for more, perhaps even more than we got this time.<\/p>\n

\"11.23.07<\/a><\/p>\n

I am in the blue heavy snow area, so I may be seeing as much as another 5 inches late tonight and tomorrow. I am quite enjoying all this snow! This is on the heels of a couple of weeks of temps in the upper 70s to low 80s. In fact, the day before Thanksgiving it was in the 80s! Welcome to west Texas weather! If you don’t like the weather here, just wait a minute! Not only is the snow great, when we have an active winter, my experience has been we usually have an active severe weather season in the spring.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Just after I initially posted this I saw we have now been put under a Winter Storm Watch!<\/p>\n

SNOW IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN AROUND DAYBREAK SATURDAY AND CONTINUE\r\nINTO SUNDAY MORNING. ACCUMULATIONS OF FOUR INCHES OR GREATER ARE\r\nPOSSIBLE.<\/pre>\n
Back to work for me now.  I have a backlog of paying projects to get done. That’s a good thing, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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