Our photo and videos were on TV!!!

I know, I know - we are so lame. To be excited over this is sorta funny, but I have to admit, it was fun to see!
Yesterday Bobby's mom came to watch the kids so we could go out shopping together and have lunch. It was great. Until on the way back, from out of nowhere, there was traffic on the I-10 near our house, just a few miles away. Traffic came almost to a stop, the rain was coming down lightly and the temp was in the 60s. Two minutes later we were commenting on the hail. Two minutes later, traveling at only 2 to 5 mph, we were being pounded by hail and sleet, temp went down to high 30s, and it started to stick! Now, every year we've lived here in Beaumont it has snowed - IN THE WINTER! We just broke records with our heat this past weekend, and now snow, on the freeway, two miles from our house???
We were in Bobby's truck (NOT A 4x4, like most other cars around us) with street tires with LITTLE tread. Now we're mountain kids - snow doesn't scare us...ON THE MOUNTAIN. But on the freeway? With cars on either side of you, and SEMI trucks? What? Now THAT is foreign to us, especially in a non- 4x4 vehicle! So I started to take video with my cell phone (hence the poor footage) to show grandma when we got back home. For about a two mile stretch (which lasted more than 30 minutes in the car) we were in about 6 inches of snow/sleet whatever you want to call it. When I showed Mary, she urged me to send it to the news stations, so I sent it to CBS and KCAL, and then ABC Eyewitness News. During the 6 p.m. news on Kcal a guy named Josh Rubenstein (weather guy) used our photo. Then I got a text message from the exec. producer of CBS2 and he told us to watch the first ten minutes of the Kcal9 news at 10 - our video was on there, but they said we were from beaumont and the video was in baldwin hills! Oops. I texted him back, and at 11 p.m. on CBS2 it was corrected. Here's a shot of our photo on Kcal last night, and it later played as a video on the CBS2 news and Kcal9 news. I have to admit, we DID jump around and high-5 a bit. I can't lie.