Entries tagged with "weather"

Flight or fight

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Given that I was flying out of Chicago in December, I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised that my flight back home to Houston was cancelled due to snow. What was a surprise was that the snow was in Houston, not Chicago.  Apparently Houston had been hit by a freak cold snap, resulting in an inch or so of snow.  This may not sound like a lot, but for a city that has no real need of snow plans, it is almost on par with a disaster.  (Hurricanes we can cope with, but itty-bitty snowflakes?  Whoa!)  So schools were let […]