JustJayne, my mom was a Texan, born and raised. She went to college at Southwestern, outside of Austin, and she talked a lot of the snowfall they had there one year. I have a photo somewhere of her building a little snowman outside of her sorority house. And now that I think of it, I was visiting my dad in Austin one Christmas when there was an ice storm. I'd never been in one but, beyond it being cold and slippery out, it sure was beautiful!