It's snowing big-time here in Austin. We are stuck at home--and have been for two days.

It's fun having snow days though. Yippie!!! I got up really early to see if there was snow outside.

Actually this might even last through tomorrow!!

It's been snowing/sleeting here for a couple of hours now.. with freezing rain/sleet yesterday.


I love snow days.

NY (Metropolitan area) has had NO snow this season!

Just one day where everything smelt worse than usual and it made the news.

2the9s said:

Oh.. I think this weather pattern is moving up your way? I think you might be seeing some snow, too.

Some kids are outside sleighing down some hills.. It's so cool. I was outside for a little bit.. I just came in to fix some lunch. I'll go back out soon.

I'm so excited!!

Isel said:

Yeah, there were some Brooklyn roughnecks skitching behind a cloud of foul odor down by the BQE the other day.

2the9s said:

I want snow
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DanceWme said:

So do I!

My daughter Lucy hasn't seen her first snow yet!!

We got snow here and people can't freaking drive in it Hell they can't even drive in the RAIN!!!!! I hate this side of the Mountain somedays

we barely got any snow, and i'm up in the niagara region (canada)
but BOY did we get ice! i mean there was a dusting of snow but it's all crispy and icy now... there's advisories for pedestrians because of falling powerlines and tree branches that have been frozen solid.. it's not good
police are patrolling the streets for homeless so they don't die from either burns from sleeping on sewers or from the bitter cold.

2the9s said:

I hope she gets to play in it real soon

Its the coldest fucking Vegas Winter ever!!!!!

Sunday was a high of 32 degrees we never get that cold, I don't put up with 120 degree summers to have my balls shrivel to raisins in the winter

LordEvil said:

So Sodom is freezing over?

EverSoulicious said:

Yes Hell Lake has a figure skating competition

LordEvil said:

i move from texas to new york, and apparently the weather moved from new york to texas to avoid me.

has it gotten this bad?





these were taken outside my apartment this morning im wondering why i ever bothered leaving my room...

cborgman said:

Texan here...

I stayed in bed all day yesterday,like a bear hibernating.
My outdoor AC unit was frozen so I was without heat for a day.

BRRR!

cborgman said:

Can you blame it?!

I got 4 inches yesterday. It was only the second substantial snow fall we've had all season.

CarrieMpls said:

PS - I wish every time it snowed I got to stay home.

CarrieMpls said:

Move here to Seattle.....they shut most of the area down when there is a skiff of snow

so in Texas does everything shut down when more than an inch accumulates?


we just got our first snow (shockingly) but new years we had a very nasty ice storm that snapped telephone poles in half and brought down thousands of miles of power lines, leaving entire cities without power for weeks.

here are some pictures. the pics on pages 3 and 4 (and some of the last ones on page 2) are minutes from where i live. i recognize most of those spots as familiar parts of the highways, etc.

http://www.extremeinstabi...m/06-12-31


and here's an interesting picture..... anyone notice anything wrong with the sign?

So wait.

Pretty much, once it snows in your state, make a thread?

fantasyislander said:

the friggin 1st "c" in ex"c"ercise needs to go....it's supposed 2 b "exercise".

BobGeorge909 said:

I KNOW!!!


this makes me ashamed to be a nebraskan. can you think of how many people could have/should have noticed this was wrong??

SureThing said:

No.. but pretty much when it snows in Austin AND I GET TO STAY HOME AND PLAY... then I'm inclined to make a thread!

Ya'll it quit snowing. But it might start-up again a bit later.

The weird thing is that just the other day, we were predicted to have a really warm winter. In fact, there was some concern about there not being a freeze to kill-off some of the bug larvae, then in the spring we'd have problems with mosquitoes, etc. We're in the middle of a drought here actually, but we've had enough rain this past week to where the lakes have risen 4 feet. It's was getting pretty scary because the water was as low as it's been for since 20 years or so ago. It's still scary though because if we don't get more rain, and the summer is hotter than usual, the water situation might become a huge problem--more than it is now. But the experts were wrong about the freezing weather, so maybe they will be wrong about that,too.

Right now, I can't be worried about all that because I'm at home for a snow day!! (she says while gleefully jumping up and down... lol)

Oh yeah.. BTW anytime there is freezing rain, sleet, snow enough to cause hazardous driving conditions, the city shuts-down. No.. most of us Texans can't drive in icy weather. Plus we rely so much on the highway systems, that it's just a huge mess. So it's better really just to shut-down to keep us off the streets--or major highways at least. Like I said, there might even be a snow-day tomorrow because it's not going to get that much above freezing and we're expecting some more winter precipitation.
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Isel said:

Oh, doesn't it snow much there?

It snowed once here so far this year and just a dusting, and we usually are snowed in for Jan and Feb. It's nutso.

SureThing said:

No it doesn't snow much here at all. It's been awhile since our last snow-day. It probably snows more in North Texas, but in Central and South Central we don't get much snow. We get more sleet and ice than actual snow.

The weather here is unpredictable. A few years ago, I was out running some errands. It was a pretty warm day, close to spring--probably late February/early March. I stopped to buy some new drapes.. It's was like 70 something outside...maybe a warmer. Well, I started doing some work at home not paying attention to what was going-on outside.. then I heard this tapping and my dogs were barking. The temp had dropped to freezing in just a few hours, and it had started sleeting. The tapping was the sleet hitting the roof and the windows. My husband didn't get home from work until late because the traffic was such a mess to the road conditions. Then we were iced-in--with a little bit of snow--for a couple of days after that.

Good times.
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2the9s said:

no.

cborgman said:

Tomorrow's supposed to be freaking COLD!