Wow!  We often complain about never having snow here in Oklahoma City.  Most of the time if we do have winter weather, it ends up being sleet or freezing rain.  Yesterday it was a nice 65 degrees and we were really enjoying it.  This morning I woke up at 6:00 AM and it was raining.  By 7:15 it had turned to sleet.  The sleet fell for nearly four hours before turning to snow.  By noon the National Weather Service had issued a blizzard warning for most of Oklahoma including Oklahoma City.  In my 43 years I cannot remember ever having a blizzard warning here.  The picture above shows looking behind my house toward the North.  The picture below shows a view looking across the street.  I was having a difficult time taking this picture because I the snow was blowing in my face even though the wind was from behind the house and I was on the front porch.

To be honest, I was very skeptical of this being much of a winter weather event because we have been promised these storms before and ended up with rain.  When these pictures were taken, the wind was blowing 50+ miles per hour (MPH).  Although we received 14.1 inches of snow, the drifts were pretty high.  We had to shovel a huge drift from behind the car just so we could back out of the drive way to pick up my son from work.

The good thing about this snow is that tomorrow is Christmas and we have not had a white Christmas in 20 years.  As of the time I am posting this, it is still snowing pretty hard.  The radar shows that it is almost over.  It looks like the snow will not last more than a couple more hours.  Tomorrow should be a nice clear day for Christmas although we will have a nice snow covered day.  While it is nice to have the snow, I have been watching the weather coverage all day and it has been telling us about one car accident in Midwest City that involved 50 cars.  Another accident in El Reno involved 20+ cars.  I know there have been many others but these two are the ones that really stood out to me.  Let’s hope no one was seriously injured.  It would be tragic for someone to have injuries on Christmas eve.  I did drive to the store just outside my residential area about an hour ago and it was tough but manageable.  As long as  you don’t stop in a deep snow drift you are okay.  We had to help push another car so they could get moving.

For us, it has been a nice day.  Our white Christmas is a welcome site and we are happy to see it despite having nearly zero visibility.