In a message dated 12/8/05 11:40:52 AM, Momdit@aol.com writes: > Hi everyone!  We are snowed in for the day here with 10 inches of snow  and > up all around the Kansas City area.  I have at least a foot of snow on  the > deck. > No snow in my part of Central Cal today but we did have dense fog until after 1 p.m. "Tule" fog is a winter tradition in the San Joaquin Valley but not something we really link with Christmas memories <gg>. As a very young kid, my mom and I visited Iowa for Christmas during WW2 (probably 1943), arriving on the Burlington Zephyr (stainless steel streamliner) and we were met at the depot my my uncle from Leon, IA, who was driving his work vehicle, a green Telephone Company truck. It's my earliest memory of snow, a rarity for most flatland Californians. Rick, Merced, CA

Had snow here in Texas, where we lived at the time, 13 inches in the 80's, flurries a couple of times but nothing big since then. My parents both grew up in the Midwest and told me about the snow, mom said they used to keep the windows open an inch or two even when it was snowing, she had a thing about keeping windows open; which I guess I inherited. Daddy was from Decatur City,Iowa and mom was from Wisconsin. It gets cold enough here to snow. Merry Christmas to all of you! Barbara (Kelley) Trammell Santa Clara, Texas