Well, an
apocalyptic event happened down here in Texas yesterday: Snow.
We’ve been
down here for 3½ years, and normally we receive but a dusting of snow once
or twice a winter. The temps plummet below freezing for a week or two every January
and we’re forced to let the faucets drip to avoid burst pipes. Our first winter
saw a mini-freeze where icy rain coated the streets for two or three days and schools
were closed and everyone worked from home. Other than that, we really don’t
have harsh winters down here, for obvious reasons. The severe weather comes in
the form of 90 days of summer heat over 100 degrees (the record for my experience
has been 108 degrees) and harsh hail storms every couple of months.
Rumors of
snow circulated Monday night. In the grocery store with Patch I overheard a
couple catastrophizing about 9 inches of the white stuff. I inwardly laughed.
Back in NJ we’d get one or two of those sized storms a winter and drive to work
the next day. But at my job Tuesday word spread we’d be remote on Thursday and
Friday. By Wednesday it was official. And yesterday morning, Snowmaggedon 2025
began.
1 pm.
2:48
pm.
Around 3 o’clock
the snow stopped falling at around 3 inches accumulation. After a brief
reprieve it started up again, this time as sleet. Icy rain. Much more dangerous
to these southerners. The sleet continued throughout the evening and overnight
and as I write this at 11 am on Friday, it is still going.
Since we hardly
ever get snow down here, the towns do not stock up on salt or invest in snowplows.
They do have some, a fraction of what we had up in Jersey, but that’s reserved
for the tollways. The side streets are on their own. I expect to be “snowed in”
until late Saturday afternoon. Today’s high will be 37, but Saturday will go up
to 46. It’s supposed to be sunny, too. Most’ll melt by dinner time. I expect to
be driving to pick up some takeout Saturday night, and attend mass with the family
Sunday morning.
And Texans
will speak of Snowmaggedon 2025 in hushed tones for years to come …
The current
view from my north Dallas home office window.
1 comment:
😅😅 have you shoveled out yet? Schools closed🫣🤭! Enjoy….all too soon you’ll be back to 90 degrees!
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