Wednesday, 25 December, 2002, 15:14 GMT

A freak snowstorm has swept across the American Mid-West, bringing an unexpected white Christmas as far south as Texas.

S An unexpected white Christmas descended on the American south

It makes reaching home in time a challenge

And jobs they do not do very often

...Oklahoma had had no snow for 25 years

More accustomed Americans knew just what to do

Some found it harder fulfilling a routine

-- Anonymous, December 25, 2002

Answers

we have about 13-15 on the ground! and it is heavy wet snow, if it had been less rain, we would have had MORE!!!

-- Anonymous, December 26, 2002

My sister in Vegas told me Tuesday evening that they had been getting hard frosts at night, so the area was losing a lot of plants that should have been hardy.

-- Anonymous, December 26, 2002