Residents took to the hills to sled on Jan. 21 after an historic winter storm dumped inches of snow on the Texas city.
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00:00I am here in Houston, Texas, where we just experienced a once-in-a-lifetime
00:04historic winter storm where it snowed for many hours this morning, dumping four
00:10inches of snow or so here in the Houston metro area. The snow has stopped and now
00:15as you can see, looks like all of Houston has arrived here at Herman Park on
00:21Miller Hill. Dozens if not hundreds of sledders here litter this park coming
00:29down the hill. Many of these people probably their first time ever sledding
00:32and experiencing snow. It is a rare historic winter storm here in the
00:38Houston, Texas area and now the storm has moved off to the east. We should have
00:43some blue sky coming up here this afternoon on the backside of the storm
00:46but the snow has continued to move to the east into Louisiana, Mississippi,
00:51Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle, all experiencing snow this afternoon as the
00:56snow storm, this winter storm, this historic storm along the Gulf Coast of
01:01the United States continues to make its way off to the east. Now we do still have
01:05the snow here and the snow will start to melt a little bit today if that sun does
01:09come out but then the temperatures drop back below freezing tonight and that's
01:13going to cause problems here in the Houston area. Schools are closed today,
01:16airports are closed today, many businesses are closed today. The hope is
01:20that they'll start to open up tomorrow but we'll have to see how much of that
01:23snow can melt off, how icy conditions get, and it may take a couple of days
01:28before that warm weather comes in enough to melt all this snow up here but in the
01:33meantime the residents of Houston are enjoying this historic possibly once-in-a-
01:39lifetime winter storm event here in southeastern Texas. For AccuWeather, I'm
01:45Aaron Jajak.