by Karen on December 11, 2008
Houston got a surprise yesterday. It snowed. I thought I was imagining it at first. Then I expected it to disappear as quickly as it came down, but it didn’t. By 9PM everything in our area had a fine layer of snow on it.
Our daughter had a blast running around making snowballs:

With instructions:

And help of course:

All in all, it was pretty fun. Here are some photos from the entire region.
by Karen on September 16, 2008
And he tore up our neighbour’s fence.

Besides some trees that were uprooted/snapped, that appears to be the worst of the damage in our neighbourhood. We all have electricity, water and cable as of tonight so we’re sitting pretty compared to the rest of the region.
And that’s about it. I’m just too damned tired to post anything else.
by Karen on April 17, 2008

Since moving to Houston from El Paso about six or seven years ago I swear a month hasn’t went by without me spending a few days with some moderate to severe congestion. It’s so bad that I like to say I’m allergic to Houston.
So it’s with great displeasure that I announce that Houston, Texas has taken first place for releasing 18.625 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere barely beating out Los Angeles (another place I’m allergic to) which took 2nd place with 18.595 million tons.
As you may be aware both of these cities are obsessed with pubic “morality” in that they’ve declared war on smokers and other domestic sources of air pollutants (aka: things that we can pretend are worse than the actually worse things the government is involved in).
Both earned their medals by allowing their moneymakers to run wild with Los Angeles paving the entire area and Houston saying “what industrial pollution?!?” while really cranking up the “leave no ground unpaved” industry.