The forecast changed rapidly and some times the news meteorologists have been wrong.  But not a few days ago.

I drove up to my Christmas destination on the evening of the 23rd.  It was really crazy.  When I left it was 73 out.  a 2.5 hour drive later and it was in the 40’s.  The original forecast earlier that day talked about a chance of a trace of snow and really cold weather over Christmas.  When I arrived the forecast change to 1-2″ of snow.  Now bedtime we check again and now it’s changed to 2-4″ of snow but not until mid day after some rain and sleet.

So when we woke up, nothing major was taking place and my mother in law and I were headed into town to get some last minute things a little more food, just in case we lost power, etc.  About 9 or so, sleet was starting to accumulate pretty fast so we took off.  For me the roads were not that bad.  Mostly slush at this point.  By the time we were done, all the non snow driving people were getting stuck and trying to do things you just don’t do in the snowy weather.  Then the winds pick up to a constant 20-30 mph level.  Sleet hurts when it pelts you in the face at this speed.

By the time we got home they issued a blizzard warning and the snow started falling.  It was just crazy.  I think in total we got 7-8″.  The snow drifts with the 50mph gusts created some areas that were over 20″ deep.  It was fun and really cold, but it was nice to have a white Christmas.

Back  on Memorial day weekend we went up to Oklahoma to my wife’s parents house for Friday night and Saturday night.  We went to celebrate her grandmothers birthday and mine.  But the real emphasis was on Nany.

It was a little humid that day with a couple brief spats of sprinkles.  Then during the party I kept watching these cells building off in the distance which provided (in my opinion) awesome pictures.  It was kind of hard to pay close attention to the party.  Which for me was tough cause I love storms, storm structure, etc.

Here are a few pics from that day.

They simply are.  Weather in general is just awesome.  And before you judge that, I have a little disclaimer.  Summer in Texas where it’s 100+ for more than 2 days is not awesome.  LOL

I like watching the structure of clouds/storms as they build up.  Last night was a good example.  Now I didn’t have my camera with me for the storm that hit, I had to take the photos on my in-laws camera and have not received the pictures yet.  But I do want to post a few that I took earlier in the day.

I hope to post more later tonight or tomorrow of the big storm that came in.  Enjoy these 2 for now.

I love clouds.  I cannot help it.  I love to take pictures of different angles of the clouds, etc.  I grab a couple shots the other morning and I’m going to post them now.  Also that afternoon in traffic I saw this bright pink almost candy looking paint job (reminds me of my lowrider days) and decided to snap a picture of that as well.

Granted there is still 9 hours left in the work day, but hey, it’s Friday right?

I have a semi busy weekend planned out.  Although the rain and storms today and tonight might put some of those off.

If the rain calms down by 5ish we decided to head out to the horse races.  It will be the first live race for us this racing season.  We really enjoy going out there.

Saturday morning we will be having our last spring league soccer game (if the weather holds) and then hopefully that will be followed up by a 2-3 week break.  I think the team is burned out and they do not want to give it there all anymore.  In fact two days ago at practice it was a horrible turnout and most of them (90%) just wanted to be lazy and walk around.  If they were able to drive I would have just canceled practice since they were wasting my time.

Saturday Evening we are going out to dinner some friends from church.  It should be a lot of fun and to hang out with them.

Sunday morning is church and then in the evening community group so that will round out our weekend pretty much.

Any big plans?
What are you going to be doing?

A couple cloud shots from my driveway this morning.  Yes I was bored while the garage door was closing.  It’s been a long draining week and this is just my way to relax.

Shot a bunch of these on the drive home tonight.  I just couldn’t pass this up:

In more ways than one.  It was pretty windy out almost all weekend.  At times it felt like there were gusts between 25-30 mph with sustained winds in the teens.  Our backyard patio chairs moved a few feet Saturday.

Secondly Saturday and Sunday seemed like a disappearing act.  It went by really fast.  Saturday we had two soccer practices.  The first one from 9:00am to 11:00am and the our afternoon practice was 3:00pm to 5:00pm.  Toward the end of the afternoon practice I almost let them out late as I wasn’t paying attention to the time.  Maybe I need to finally get a watch or something.  I should check out Oakley watches, as they have some really nice ones.

Sunday was more laid back.  Church in the morning and the our small group that evening.

To finish out the weekend I awoke this morning about 3:00am with a huge wind and rain storm pounding against the house.  I stayed awake long enough to realize it was the storm finally hitting and then I went right back to sleep.

How was your weekend.?

And I hope in a good way..

One change, the weather.  I think our nightly lows are creeping to the upper 40’s, low 50’s which is nice and that also means (I hope) that winter is nearing it’s end and spring is around the corner.  Forecasts show possible thunderstorms Monday through Wednesday with some potentially reaching slight severe levels..  YES..  Bring on the storms..  Although this might impact soccer practice, but I welcome the heavy rains and thunderstorms.  (that’s one of the things I like about Texas)

Speaking of soccer, we are only one week from spring league starting up.  Wow we are in bad shape too..  The girls decided over winter break to not practice and we are now behind schedule getting everything ready for the spring opener.  Maybe that is why we are having two practices tomorrow. hmmm..

That’s probably the only two big changes at this point.  Oh, we did get our final approval for our Adoption/Foster license so that was some good news..

Today has started from bad and has progressed to worse.  This ice storm is nuts.  Of course some of you readers will be like “yeah whatever” but for Texas, ice storms can cause havoc.

Tonight on the way home from work I saw 2 accidents with one a rollover within 1/2 mile of leaving work.  Then saw about 6 more accidents on the way home.  Four of these had cars on the side or completely rolled over.

The main freezing rain and sleet is hitting right now and should last a few hours.  We are sitting about 30 degrees and by the morning commute time we should be about 26.  I sure hope they have the bridges and overpasses sanded better than then did tonight cause tomorrow morning will take me forever to get to work..

To warm up the ice I post this: