Lights and yard ... of your roof. This can be especially challenging since they are often high spaces that lack an easy way to connect lights to them. Steve Hunsaker, owner of Valley Christmas ...

The mere mention still elicits postcard visions of a white Christmas ... inches of snow fell on Victoria in the two days, but Metz said his in-laws had at least 15 inches in their yard.

The National Weather Service officially considers a place to have a white Christmas if there is one inch of snow already on the ground, or if new snowfall of at least one inch falls on Christmas Day.