Snow Envy...

After going to one of my nephew's shows the other night, I woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of sleet hitting against the windows and in the morning this is what I saw:



It's funny how just the day before I pulled this off the rose bush:


This morning I got a text message just before 7am from a friend who live near Beaumont. I pretty much guessed what it was going to be and I was somewhat right:


So how can they get this much snow down in the swamp, but central Texas gets bupkus? I officially have a case of "snow envy".