Historic Snowfall: Report from Dallas
Posted by Gianmarc on 2/13/2010, 9:33 pm
Well folks as some of you know I moved to Dallas last May. My first memorable weather experience here was of an absolutely ferocious thunderstorm that rivaled by 20 times any storm I had ever witnessed in my five years of living in the state of Florida. That kind of thing happens in a place like Texas where the hail in April can be the size of softballs and the tornadoes call you out by name. But 12 inches of snow? Nah, not here--at least that's what everyone told me when I asked "How much snow do you get here in winter?" and they would all chuckle a bit and say "not much at all really, we'll get a flurry now and then but it never sticks."

Well, it stuck this weekend, and big time--we had nearly 13 inches of snow here in Arlington TX, a suburb of Dallas, on Thursday/Friday. From what I understand, we broke the all-time single day snowfall record for the DFW airport, which was set back in 1964.

As someone who was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, I know my snowstorms, and while the snow that fell here this week never had the ferocity of the sort of white-out conditions I experienced at least a couple times a year up north, it was relentlessly persistent and kept coming down for a good 18 hours. Because the temps hovered around 33 degrees the flakes were at least the size of silver dollars. I could not make it all the way up to my garage and ended up stuck about halfway up the driveway--and that is where my car had to stay overnight as the snow fell.

The neighborhood is now littered with downed trees--some enormous and split into three or four pieces and blocking roadways. Since it was relatively "warm" for a snowstorm the snow was very wet and heavy, and really fought me hard as I shoveled it out of the driveway and the road behind my house.

This has been an absolutely amazing and historic event for this area. Just to give you an idea of how rare it is--when I asked the property manager here to borrow a snow shovel, he just laughed and said "they don't sell snow shovels around here." My fiancee was shoveling snow with a dust pan before we found a more suitable shovel. Today, even nearly 48 hours after the snow stopped and after considerable melt today, we still have vast snow cover all over town--the whole area is just an endless blitz of white. Really an amazing sight for this area.
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