Oh my it is" iceing" in Austin

[corporatewhore]

i am not goin out side today!! and before y'all call us texans wimps try livin out here in summer time !!!

[GOPisEvil]

1. I'm at work...there's ice on my window ledge

The ice stopped falling though...a temporary thing. The roads aren't icy though; just wet.

[bearfan454]

2. They're going to get icy tonight.

We have to work. I hope we don't get "iced" in. ha ha .

[GOPisEvil]

4. I'm hoping to get a couple of things done after work...

...once I get home, it could turn into the north pole outside for all I care. I have plenty of food. :-)

As long as the electricity stays on at least...

[VelmaD]

3. It sleeted on me...

all the way in to work this morning. And people drove like freakin' maniacs (though this is AUstin so that kind goes without saying).

Actually it kinda reminded me of home. The weather is like this a lot up in northeast Texas. Lots of sleet. Drove me nuts as a kid to get sleet instead of snow. x(

[DenverDem]

5. As a native Texan

who lived in Florida for the last decade and have now moved to beautiful but frigid Denver, I have found, much to my previous disbelief, that you actually can drive on ice and five below zero temps won't kill you, but they sure will burn any skin not covered up.

In Texas, however, you are correct. Any ice on the road, all society comes to a halt. It is all relative.

Man, I miss Austin!

[XNASA]

6. Heavens ta Betsy!!

I spent the better part of 7 summers living in Texas, in the hottest most miserable, most smelly city in America.

So I can say it.

You're a wimp. :evilgrin: But a smart one. The last thing you want to do is get on the road in Texas unless ideal climate conditions exist. To do otherwise is to take your life in your hands, or worse, put it in somebody else's.

It hasn't cracked 32 here in Chicago for about 3 weeks. Nobody bats an eye. Heheheheheheh........

[GOPisEvil]

8. You're a weekend too late!

We could have welcomed you with a touch of home. :D

[XNASA]

11. That's what happened to me last February.

I spent a long weekend in Houston and it was 40 and rainy all weekend. The day I flew out, it was 70 and sunny.

Hopefully, we'll have better luck next week!!!!

[matcom]

7. welcome to our 'Northern' World

:)

drive safe everyone

[VelmaD]

10. It's not my driving I'm worried about.

It's the people from the southern half of the state who aren't used to driving in winter weather because they see it at most once or twice a year that concern me. They don't have the slightest clue what they're doing and they either drive like 2 flakes of snow signal the coming of the Apocolypse or they act like there's absolutely nothing different at all and they go ahead and speed and run redlights and tailgate and all the other crap that's dangerous in the best road conditions but downright idiotic in freezing rain.

I grew up and then went to college in the parts of Texas that actually have winter. I learned to drive in sleet and freezing rain. (Even better I learned NOT to drive unless it's absolutely necessary.)

Sorry for the little rant. This is one of the things about people in Austin that makes me the most insane.

[bearfan454]

9. I like it once in a while.

At least I don't have to get out my electric snow blower and blow the drifts out of the driveway almost every day for 3 or 4 months of the year like when I used to live in Chicago. Sometimes it wouldn't get above zero for the high for the day for a week or 2 at a time. FTS !

Austin weather rocks and so does Austin and DU !

[XNASA]

13. Now, now. It's not as you describe it.

I haven't gotten my snowblower out once this winter. Never got more than an inch or two of light snow all year.

Heck, it was 62 the day after New Years Day.

I can never remember it staying below zero for longer than 24 hours or so......

I can remember the air smelling like paint thinner and the humidity staying above 90% for 9 months out of the year when I lived in Houston though. I swear, the next time there's a new "Survivor" location, they should make the contestants survive the summer in Pasadena, Texas. That would be a real test.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

12. This will blow your socks off: hailstorms in Brazil. Yep, in the summer.

In São Paulo city. Can't find pics. happened yesterday. Two feet of ice. Is that crazy or what?