Snow drops by S.A. area, but doesn't stick around
By Macarena Hernandez
San Antonio Express-News
Web Posted : 01/02/2002 12:00 AM
Well, it happened. Snow in San Antonio on New Year's Day.
It wasn't enough to stick to the ground, but those definitely were snowflakes sticking to hats and hair across the Northwest Side.
"It looked like bits of white floating in the air. It was flurries," said Diana Hooks, a clerk at the Texaco at Ingram and Northwest Loop 410. "It wasn't anything substantial. Nothing is really sticking. It melted before it hit the ground."
But there was some excitement.
"One guy watched it for about five minutes," Hooks said. "He got gas and went and sat in his car and watched for a while. He was so enthralled. He was really excited. I myself don't get so excited because I have to drive."
Farther north, in Boerne, Gary Groth and his family saw a thin layer — thick by South Texas standards, he said — accumulating on the windshield wipers of his white Explorer, on the top of his glass patio table and also piling up on the branches of the bushes outside his house.
"If you don't look at the ground, you swear you are in winter wonderland. It is coming down like you would want it to be for a white Christmas. It is really, really beautiful." Groth said. "My son just came down and looked out the window and said, 'Wow.'"
Snow flurries also were reported around Interstate 10 and Camp Bullis, but there was no major accumulation....
mhernandez@express-news.net
01/02/2002
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