It's 22° and snow on the ground in Austin TX

[hobbit709]

Of course by next week it will probably get to 90°.

I remember one year when we had snow one day and a 100° 5 days later.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

1. I posted a minute after you did...

Oh well, the more the merrier.

It has been so long that I had forgotten what our yard looked like with white on it.


If I wasn't tethered here, I would be living someplace with winter weather most of the time.

[mucifer]

2. well kids we have extra snow here in Chicago if you want some.

:)

[hobbit709]

3. The frozen wastelands of the north is where the snow is supposed to be.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. We have so much here in the frozen wastelands of the north

that we ran out of room for it. That's why you guys are getting it now.

It has been snowing ceaselessly since before Thanksgiving. There are shoulder-high piles in my back yard. I don't expect to see bare ground until April at the earliest.

[tigereye]

5. it's been the craziest winter I can remember in a while

but not quite as much snow here. But it was on the ground since before Thanksgiving and is still there.

[hobbit709]

6. Just watched the Republican idjit up the street

Make a complete fool of himself.

Floored his high-water 4-wheel drive pickup and spun out. Bounced off both curbs, blew a tire and stopped crossways in the street. I stood there and gave him a big round of applause.

I know he's a repuke because he still has his Perry sign in his yard.

[kentauros]

8. Post a pic of that, too!

:rofl:

[kentauros]

7. Post some pics! :-)

Here in Houston, everything's just iced over, other than the road surfaces that aren't bridges.

I drove into work late today (kind of waiting for a little daylight to see the road surfaces better) and was dodging many a white-knuckled, driving-with-flashers-on and going way too slow fearful driver. I'd love to have been able to point out to each and every one of them that while the bridges are to be respected with safe and careful driving, the roads will simply not have ice on them. The ground hasn't been cold enough lone enough to allow icy conditions.

But, common sense doesn't sell on TV news, so they're all told to be careful of "icy roads". I wonder how many will be driving just as overly-cautiously this afternoon, when the temps are in the high 30s...? Probably quite a few, knowing the average Houston driver with regards to precipitation and driving :eyes:

[Brewman_Jax]

9. I spent a 5-day work week in Austin a couple of years ago

in September; 90° was the cool day that week. :rofl:

[cbdo2007]

10. I was once stuck on the highway for 2 days in an ice storm just north of Austin.

It was just a standstill on the highway for almost 2 days straight because they weren't prepared for all of the ice or something. Luckily we were close to an exit with a hotel for overnight but then the next day we got right back on the highway for exactly the same thing.