THE GREAT HOUSTON SNOWSTORM OF 2025

Or something like that...ha!  It was a crazy day for sure but in the end, just beautiful and, for us, awe inspiring.

It started Tuesday evening...

This is the radar about 7pm, the red arrow is the farm and of course pink is snow, blue is rain.  It was freezing out there and snowing, Houston was still raining.

But that didn't last long.

During the night, it dropped below 32 while we were sleeping.  I woke up to check the weather:

It was finally 28 and snowing.

When we woke up:

It was near white conditions in downtown Houston.  We couldn't see beyond about one block.

The entire city was shut down.  Almost no one went to work (except essential personnel of course), freeways were empty, virtually all stores and businesses closed, and even the two airports were closed, with no flights landing or taking off.

One it stopped, I went out to explore.  A lot of snow.  About 4" in Houston.  It was beautiful for sure.

It was a lot of snow, even up on our balcony more than 25 floors up.  It was crazy and fun!

It was the soft, powdery type of snow.  We think this is the kind that people like for skiing.

At lunch, when the sun finally came out (but still below freezing), we went down downstairs to "play" in the snow and it was awesome.

I joined in an impromptu snowball fight with neighbors (epic fun at 59 years old) and then, with our first ever major snowfall, I just had to do this...

🎵Do you want to build a snowman?🎵

YES!

OK, so he won't win any awards but hey, I did what I could with what I had on hand.  Had to find enough clean white snow that hadn't already been scooped up for snowballs or had snow angels made in it, and then I used what was around in the flowerbeds to bring my snowman to life.  Several people took pictures so he was famous for a bit!

We were regretting that we weren't living at the farm yet to experience this, but "J" from 2nd Family surprised us by walking down to our end and taking pictures all around for us to have!

This was on her back porch/deck as she went outside to get some pictures.

This is one end of our driveway looking down toward the barn and shed.  In the Spring, this is one of my favorite spots to mow.

Speaking of mowing, here is one of our trails, normally a green winding path, now a white wonderland! 

This is our front yard, the view we will have from our future front porch.

The orchard is snow covered.  Thankfully the trees and bushes are freeze hardy (at least we hope!).

This is a pond, not ours, but one on the other side of our fence.  It's very pretty covered in snow and frozen over.  Looks like a postcard.  We wish he'd someday sell us that part of his land, it would be awesome, ha.

Barnabas looks cold and lonely in this picture, ha.  It's so wild to see this, the snow covers the weeds and trim debris and the things that sprouted up, so seeing it not only clean and white but trimmed and all alone looks so cool.  So much space for new stuff once we get out there!  We saved the best picture for last:

Just love this picture.  It might be great to have turned into our first Christmas card to mail out next year.

We are forever grateful to "J" for getting us these possible once in a lifetime pics.  But hey, if it does happen again next year, we'll be there to experience it!

Sunday will be some Hobart snow pics, he didn't go outside but he had some fun nonetheless.