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JimR · « **on:** January 16, 2007, 02:01:42 pm »

at my house. right now.

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #1 on:** January 16, 2007, 02:17:53 pm »

Quote:

at my house. right now.

How much is accumulating?

JimR · « **Reply #2 on:** January 16, 2007, 02:21:09 pm »

just a dusting. it is mostly ice/sleet, which started late yesterday afternoon. Austin may be iced in until after noon tomorrow.

JimR · « **Reply #4 on:** January 16, 2007, 02:28:16 pm »

they're saying we'll be below freezing till tomorrow PM. then it will soar to 35. we got lots of precip last night and this morning. they are predicting freezing rain/sleet/snow through tomorrow noon.

Phil_in_CS · « **Reply #5 on:** January 16, 2007, 02:32:02 pm »

nothing but a small amount of ice here; been 30 since yesterday afternoon.

They are predicting more sleet/freezing rain, which would make it really nasty.

JimR · « **Reply #7 on:** January 16, 2007, 02:38:23 pm »

i was thinking frozen margs. brilliant minds....

homer · « **Reply #11 on:** January 16, 2007, 03:05:20 pm »

we got our light dusting yesterday. of course it had to be on a holiday instead of today...

its below freezing today but no precip, and the sunshine yesterday was enough to melt most of what we had from yesterday morning.

drew corleone · « **Reply #12 on:** January 16, 2007, 03:05:22 pm »

It's all about being prepared, right?

Yesterday I sent myself home from work ten minutes after I got there, but made sure to grab some "necessary" items from the Tigermart on the way home. Clerk looked at me crazy; guess he isn't used to seeing people buy an 18-pack at 8am on a Monday.

A few beers, a nice snowstorm, and some whisky waiting in reserve. It's almost enough to make you love winter.

toddthebod · « **Reply #16 on:** January 16, 2007, 03:33:24 pm »

We haven't gotten any snow up in New York this winter. I knew this would happen the winter after I bought my big-ass snowblower at Home Depot. And worse of all, it is recommended not to use rock salt to rim your margarita glasses.

Fredia · « **Reply #18 on:** January 16, 2007, 03:37:04 pm »

over in the arboritium area here. my daughters car is almost covered in white. sure was pretty while it lasted

Houston · « **Reply #20 on:** January 16, 2007, 04:07:36 pm »

That means Austin has had more snow than Baltimore this year! We've had none -- just the way I like it.

Outlawscotty · « **Reply #22 on:** January 16, 2007, 04:08:40 pm »

right on the Guadalupe River at Spring Branch. You'd think SA has never seen snow, much less ice.

Houston · « **Reply #24 on:** January 16, 2007, 05:10:29 pm »

In Maryland, we're on the warm edge of the system, according to the weatherman not named DAS. We're forecasted to get rain instead of snow.

EasTexAstro · « **Reply #30 on:** January 16, 2007, 06:15:31 pm »

OK, now I remember. I was running some rail cars through Freeport around then. I had never been trained on icy rails andm for some reason, we never worried about stocking up on the sand for the tracks.

I couldn't find the archive of the 1989 snow storm that hit the Houston area, but I remember spending a long time trying to drive from Nacogdoches to Lake Jackson that year. The ramp from 59 to 288 had trucks sliding backwards on the built up ice.

ETA: Found a link

Col. Sphinx Drummond · « **Reply #34 on:** January 16, 2007, 08:18:42 pm »

I had to work today. AT&T doesn't acknowledge the inherent danger of driving on ice. Usually I work on fiber but today I had to work regular phone repair. It wasn't too bad. In fact, it was a piece of cake compared to my old days as a lineman in OKC.

The most heart warming thing I saw today was a couple of young girls attempting to make snow angels in the sleet that had collected on their drive way. The craziest thing I saw today was a madman (or Eskimo) kayaking on Town Lake.

matadorph · « **Reply #35 on:** January 16, 2007, 08:59:36 pm »

I live in Central East Austin and I haven't had to drive far, but everywhere I've been the roads are clear. This is nothing compared to the ice storm from Jan '97 or the one shortly before Christmas '88. Seems to me that aside from the cold temperatures and the hassle of a frozen windshield, the Ice Storm of 2007 doesn't warrant a city-wide shutdown. Then again, Austin drivers spazz out when it drizzles so I'm relieved most of them are too scurred to venture outside.

Can you imagine something like this in Austin???

That video is frightening.

No? in Austin · « **Reply #36 on:** January 16, 2007, 11:18:43 pm »

I've been in two *actual* snowstorms. One in Utah, when the snow was coming down sideways and you could not see a thing. I was driving through a mountain pass to get to Salt Lake. Believe me, I didn't know any better (being from Texas). I quickly realized that no one had their headlights on and were driving with only the fog lights. I shut down my headlights and darn if I didn't see better. The other thing was my amazement at how well the roads were for driving.

Second snowstorm was in Denver. I was a passenger not a driver. My wife and I were visiting a friend who had just moved there six month prior. He drove in this stuff like it was nothing. I was amazed at my fellow Texan having such an adept grasp of driving in a snowstorm. He laughed at me. I was perplexed, why is he laughing?

Well, because he pointed out a snow bulldozer whizzing ahead of us clearing the road of hazard. And the hundreds of trucks putting substances on the road to keep them from getting slippery. This was *during* the storm. He told me that you get used to snowstorms and how well prepared the city was to handling it.

And he also told me that in Texas, most especially in Houston (where I was from), nobody expects a snowstorm nor does it make sense to buy equipment like snowdozers to clear the roads and also have trucks at the ready with sodium substances. Because it would be a huge waste of money. That is why we shut down a city like Austin today... no one is going to pay for readiness, it's much more cost effective to just shut the city down than to waste money on equipment that is generally unecessary.

I'm glad I didn't have to go out in this stuff. Bad enough when folks in Texas are speeding along when it is raining hard. But when the city is not prepared to clear roads immediately even with a moderate storm like today (was it even a storm?), then it is very much a good idea to shut down and don't wander out if you don't have to. Why create more problems for the road crews to have to handle.

That truck driver in Buda was speeding when he took out those innocent people, killed one of them. He should've known better.

Fredia · « **Reply #38 on:** January 17, 2007, 01:23:25 am »

dont know how far east but i do know my daughter at northwestern state in louisiana has no classes tommorrow and the promise of wintery mix.

mihoba · « **Reply #39 on:** January 17, 2007, 10:41:47 am »

I just rolled in from Mississippi last night, misty rain but no ice. Quite a trip trying to stay on hwy 28 through your state. This was only the second time I have ever crossed the big river.

Woke up to a thin ice covering this morning here in the 'woods.

das · « **Reply #40 on:** January 17, 2007, 10:54:13 am »

Same here in Maryland. Couple of batches of flurries so far this year, that's all. Just Pathetic. Hopefully, Thursday night, Sunday and next Tuesday will change that...

Houston · « **Reply #41 on:** January 17, 2007, 11:45:17 am »

Whatchu talkin bout, David?!

No snow is good snow!

utastro · « **Reply #42 on:** January 17, 2007, 12:45:09 pm »

Ah, another snow/ice day in the frozen city of Austin. They might as well give us the whole week off.

JimR · « **Reply #43 on:** January 17, 2007, 12:54:48 pm »

i am afraid my office is going to open at 1. i do not know about downtown, but it ain't thawing much in NW Hills.

EasTexAstro · « **Reply #47 on:** January 17, 2007, 01:17:24 pm »

East Texas is shutting down schools and roads. I'm not sure I will even be able to make it home. The raods are either closed for ice or mud.

I loaded the back of my truck with logs a few days ago so I would have extra weight. I guess I could use them as firewood if things get desperate.

das · « **Reply #48 on:** January 17, 2007, 04:48:45 pm »

You need to immediately go outside, build an alter of twigs and leaves and sacrifice it to the snow gods lest they be displeased. You remember what happened the first year you moved here, right? Ignorance will not protect you........

MRaup · « **Reply #51 on:** January 17, 2007, 06:42:28 pm »

God Bless Austin, Texas. We went to the grocery store yesterday.
They were out of:

Keystone Light
Plastic Cups

They were very low on:

Toilet paper.
Breads of any kind

So, as far as I can tell, the good people of Austin are out playing beerpong and then getting the beer-squirts afterwords.

And then having a sandwich.

juliogotay · « **Reply #54 on:** January 18, 2007, 12:14:53 pm »

This would make a great Reality/Perception campaign like Rolling Stone did in the 80's...but for the T&C's competition.

Taras Bulba · « **Reply #58 on:** January 18, 2007, 12:42:26 pm »

I thought about that, but I'm fairly sure that if this guy has a wife, she ain't the type to be reading Town and Country.

Author Topic: snow (Read 7838 times)

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