Winter storm!Follow

So, it's one of the biggest storms of the last 10 years.
How is it affecting you? Today we have below 32 temps and wind chills in the teens. Were expecting snow for the next two days here. It's dangerous and going to be crazy here.

I'll let you know once the two storms combine into one and hit us tomorrow afternoon.

There's a Dragonball Z joke in there somewhere.

Ditto.

Houston might have the tiniest bit of snow, but you know as well as I do that the "tiniest bit of snow" in the south is nothing but trouble :/

The roads were a bit icy on my way to work, and the NMDoT hadn't started doing anything about them yet(I did see one of their trucks on the road as I neared work, so they were likely getting started).

The real problem, however, is that my fellow New Mexicans don't know how to handle snow. I was driving slowly and carefully, even then I fishtailed a bit on two turns. Other folks on the road seemed to have the mindset that "If I drive faster, then I can get out of the snow sooner!".

That worked about as well as anyone could expect.

Where I live, we usually only have one, maybe two winter storms a year.

Edit: Quotefail.

Edited, Feb 2nd 2011 2:15am by Poldaran

Still have about a foot of snow on the ground from last three storms now they are coated in a 1/2" layer of ice. Temp is rising to above freezing so now its just raining out.

Stupid winter, I forget what my grass looks like

Well, the panic is on here in central Texas. With the cold being colder than the last 15+ years they have rolling blackhouts on power? Huh? They never have them in the summer at 100+ degree days! I got home to a dark home with no power. It was 30 degrees inside and my cats still greeted me at the door. I called the power Co-Op and they mentioned power outages and rolling ones. I had left the two spaceheaters on to keep the pipes from freezing and the sink in the bathroom and kitchen running. I'm guessing the power was out for several hours or more. The sink in the bathroom had frozen ice from the faucet to the drain and the toilet had ice in it and the lines to both are frozen. Kitchen is still going thank Goddes.
Anyways, I have the stove open both heaters on now. Power came on 20 min ago. Finished putting plastic over all the cheap windows. Its up to 37 now inside! Whoot! God I love
Texas!

They're having the blackouts all over Texas. :(

Just got an email from the university that says it's even cutting off power to traffic lights. I thought those had backups...

Edited, Feb 2nd 2011 9:36am by Sweetums

I thought I remembered that she lived in a trailer. So, in other words, yes.

I think she had to downsize.

What a wonderful way of enjoying Groundhogs Day and my birthday is to shovel off 18" of snow plus even higher drifts. As well as the massive pile of heavy hard **** the plows like to put at the end of the driveway.