Oh it's frreezin down in Texas...

[Skink]

[panader0]

1. All the telephone lines are down...

[sawdust]

9. I keep tryin to reach my

Baby but not a single sound

[texanwitch]

2. ALmost in Houston.

Stay warm.

[seabeyond]

3. way.... below freezing, thank you very much. i have two sinks with frozen pipes

in the very back bathroom. fingers crossed nothing busted.

[CTyankee]

6. we're still dripping our faucets...and I shut off the outside pipe in late November...

so far, so good....

BTW, glad to see you back, seabeyond!

[seabeyond]

8. thank you CT. i did not think about it soon enough. was surprised it had frozen

i have lived here for decade and half and never did that. bummers....

i really did not know it was getting that cold. wasnt paying attention. son ran out of gas a little up the street, i heard him puttering out, at 6:30 am, total dark. i go with the gas can in slippers a jacket.... no coat gloves or hat. i found out it was -24 with wind chills. stupid, stupid. son was wearing shorts, lol.

[CTyankee]

33. we have an older house here, prolly built right before WW2.

Everybody expects snow. Life here gets to be one big accommodation to the snow gods. I'm in full puff parka from L.L. Bean right about now and high snow boots. Hopefully, I'll go to my next level down coat, thinner gloves than the paws I've got now, and low boots by mid March.

I feel like my house was built expecting this kind of weather.

[notadmblnd]

20. get your hair dryer out.

if it is the bathroom sink or the kitchen sink, open the cupboards so the heat goes in there. My cold water pipe in by basement bathroom kept freezing we rarely use the bathroom down there, but we've had below zero temps for about a month now, so I regularly check the pipes on all outside walls. I thawed it out with my hair dryer and took the stuff out of the cupboard, and left the doors open and it hasn't froze up again.

[seabeyond]

21. i did have the cabinets open thru the night. was just hot side frozen.

this morning both the hot and cold frozen so i gave up. i can put my little heater in there thru the night, you think? but if it is an outside wall, wouldnt the outside temperatures have to go up?

[notadmblnd]

22. If you think it is safe to leave it on all night

but if you thaw it and then let it trickle all night, it shouldn't refreeze. the last thing you want to do is give up. If a pipe bursts you'll have a heck of a lot more grief than you've got now.

[seabeyond]

25. i will try that. thanks. nt

[Rozlee]

27. Do you live in the Texas Hill Country?

I live off 46 near Boerne and the well company came over today because one of my pipes burst from the freeze. But, I still don't have water because the pipes are frozen and they told me I probably won't have any water until the weekend when the temperature goes above freezing.

[seabeyond]

30. amarillo, panhandle. all the water works thru out house, even shower, but these two sinks.

fingers crossed. trying to thaw out now. i am so sorry you are in the position you are in. hugest of bummers, not having water.

[Paladin]

37. Learning all about the term "Graupel," are you? (nt)

[Rozlee]

38. Not seeing much of it yet here in Boerne.

Saw some of it when I'd get contract nursing jobs in Kerrville and Fredricksberg a few years back. It gets colder up there than it does over here. Conversely, it gets about 5 degree colder where we're at than in San Antonio twenty miles south of us.

[Paladin]

40. I get a kick out of the San Antonio weather people.....

....talking about graupel as if alien space ships have landed. The only reason I'm familiar with it is because of prior time spent in Colorado.....

[Rozlee]

42. Yeah, I remember the time back in 1985 when San Antonio got a record 13.5 inches of snow.

The city didn't know how to handle it and didn't have the salt and plows to clear the streets. The interstate, state roads and all main thoroughfares grinded to a halt. People were buying T-shirts that said "I Survived the Blizzard of '85."

[seabeyond]

5. i can empathize with you, your experience and still be cold here at 1 degrees. cant i?

ya.... i know. we had almost 70 a month ago when you all were really freezing.

[arely staircase]

7. and I am about to have to take the dog out nt

[Skink]

14. suck it up

[TexasBushwhacker]

10. Colder than a witch's tit n/t

[Aerows]

13. In a brass brasiere

or in a snow man's mouth, depending on where you are from. Or the old stand by - cold as a well digger's ass.

[texanwitch]

11. Cold enough for long underwear indoors.

I am in a old drafty house.

[Aerows]

12. Cold as hell here, too

and I'm on the Gulf Coast. We had an icestorm earlier. Hello, winter, I'm so pleased to see you are back again.

[texanwitch]

15. My grass is all brown

The spring weeds are coming up.

The weeds are not bothed by the cold.

[Aerows]

17. It has been so weirdly cold here

everything is afraid to grow. Even the bushes look like they want to huddle together for warmth.

[texanwitch]

19. My weeds are growing strong.

They were growing in December.

These are spring weeds.

My wild sunflower plants are starting to grow.

I will need to cut the weeds.

My butterfly plants died.

My yard looks weird.

[HereSince1628]

16. Colder than the northend of a southbound Longhorn?

[Aerows]

18. Even the trees

want to get closer to the fire.

[Texasgal]

23. It's damn cold!!!

No ice or snow though. We'll see what happens in the morning!

Make sure you cover your pipes! Keep warm!

[Indpndnt]

31. It snowed in Dallas, though. Less than an inch.

With the typical chaos following soon thereafter. I suspect Christie brought it down from NJ with him.

[hobbit709]

24. the high here today was 32°

[hrmjustin]

26. 26F and ice all over the place here in Brooklyn.

[larkrake]

28. 6 below zero in Denver

[Lint Head]

29. So baby hold me close...

[Holly_Hobby]

32. -2 here, windchill at -17, 62" snow this year

Got my spring cleaning done, though. Too damn cold to go anywhere.

[LostOne4Ever]

34. I guess its time for our 3 days of winter

Will probably be back in the 90s next week

[Skittles]

35. 23 degrees right now

[NuclearDem]

36. Windchill at -13. That was a nice surprise when I went out for a smoke.

[meow2u3]

39. My sister texted me yesterday that it was cold and icy

I hope she got to work in one piece.

[MineralMan]

41. Oh, the yellow snow of Texas...

Everybody sing!