Houston will have an ice storm early Monday morning. We'll have about 12 hours of ice, and temperatures below freezing, then it will melt.
People are panic buying at the stores. Businesses will close 2 days in advance.
It's scary... almost like a mini mini ice-age.
In the past, cultures would sacrifice a virgin to a volcano to assuage the climate gods.
Is Greta Thunberg doing anything on Saturday?
I live in DFW. That wreck was horrible 150 cars were involved and I know at least 5 people died. My husband worked from home that day because the roads were bad and after seeing that horrible wreck, I was relieved.
We are expected to get a blizzard here this weekend and it won't get above freezing until Friday, so he may either be completely off work or working from home all next week. He works at a University, so if the school closes he doesn't have to work at all, but if it stays open then he will. I'm crossing my fingers the school closes so we can have a real snow day and go sledding on cardboard boxes and laundry baskets lol.
I live just north of DFW - also a life-long Texan. I would say that staying below freezing for longer than 3-4 days is a 20-30 year event. This one is 8 days minimum.
Remember Icemaggedon back in 2013 or 2014 where we invented cobblestone ice and everything was shut down for like a week. That was crazy! It has barely snowed since then. I bought sleds for my niece and nephews for Christmas after that happened and it's like I cursed them. It used to snow once or twice a year when I was growing up, but after I bought them sleds it never freaking snowed lol. They will finally get to use them after having them for about seven years!!!! Hahahaha
Lol. I grew up there...in the burbs in Bedford....and yes! Cardboard boxes were the way to go if we actually I iced! God i miss home. Glad your hubby got to stat home. My bro would have been on that route but he stayed home as well. The roads there are so scary and not ready one bit for ice.
Yup. Plus people here don't know how to drive on ice. My husband is a yankee, so he learned to drive on a hilly road in a 15 passenger van in icy conditions lol But down here none of us get to practice, so people drive 70mph on icy roads. So even though HE knows how to drive in it, I don't want him out with all the morons that have no idea. We did finally get brine trucks instead of sand trucks in some areas. I'll never forget the disaster the sand made on the roads during the Icepocalypse of 2013.
Hahaha and that reminds me. I grew up in a small town south of Dallas and my mom was driving once and saw our town's version of a sand truck. 2 guys in the back of a pickup truck filled with sand shoveling it on overpasses lol