By 10am, today, it was confirmed that some unknown force had caused flakes of ice to fall from the skies of Houston Texas! And while the best minds at Texas A&M are currently in seclusion and still trying to understand what this means, many have started turning to religion. Still others seem unaffected by this indicating either a certain knowing, or possibly denial.
Normally, December is simply considered an extension of Autumn, with short sleeves and the occasional leather jacket still complimenting cowboy hats and sunglasses. But today temperatures in the city seemed to plummet well below the normal 50 degree weather that the Lone Star state is accustomed to. As if that wasn’t enough to make even the oldest natives of H-Town flood hardware stores in desperate search for something called a ‘heater’, alarm started to rise as people realized that the ‘rain’ seemed to be falling in the form of light flakes of ice.
“This is crazy!” observed one woman in an HEB parking lot, as she shoved canned foods into her mini van. Local news, and I’m not making this up, is warning about traffic conditions and many offices are trying to close a half day early. Some schools have suspended their classes and sent the student home for an early start on their weekend. No doubt the students who can drive are simply going to be out on the same ice coated roads that the HISD didn’t want them driving home on in the first place, but then again the High Schools in this state have never really been that big on promoting a thought process anyway.
One thing that has started to weight on me is what this means for the world? I found out, through a reputable source, that there is no snow fall in New York. How is this possible? Morally the Big Apple is covered in 12 feet of snow while people in H-Town are tanning on the beach. But for a city that experiences 108 in the shade on a good day in the summer, to be feeling snow fall down on it while New York is flake free worries me.
Could this be a sign? Should we worry that the death of an innocent and a child born without a soul are next? I don’t know about anyone else, but I think I will keep an eye out for a man on a pale horse
I wouldnt go so far as to lump ALL high schools together, as it is the District’s and their Superintendents which make the ‘release’ decisions. When I was attending, circa the 1990′s, HISD always seemed a bit behind on announcing releases. And to be fair, the driving student population only accounted for a fraction of a couple of grade levels – I cannot imagine it changing much since then.