We’re having our annual One Week of Winter here in Central Texas this week — and this one is worst than most in recent years.Temperatures have been hoovering just below freezing (27 degrees as I write this (for a couple of days). Last night we were hit with freezing rain and an ice storm that has closed most roads and overpasses today.
Yes — I know that most of you Northern readers are saying, “WTF? 27 degrees in January is balmy. And a bit of ice shuts down an entire city? Whimps…”
Regardless, my office (as is most of Austin) is closed for the day, so I’m blogging from my recliner while sipping on hot chocolate (whipped cream instead of marshmellows), while my wife is watching Nanny McPhee.
We’re supposed to get a few inches of snow and more ice on the roads today and tonight…so, work will probably be cancelled tomorrow, too.
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So…..get blogging…lol
1. Where’s your dogs?
2. Do you have a fireplace?
3. What are you going to do if the power goes out?
My years in the South made me sympathetic- Southern towns just down have enough snow removal equipment and no one has snow tires. One winter day in Atlanta I thought I’d be able to head out to the store since there was only a few inches a snow and I certainly wasn’t afraid of that- I was lucky not to have an accident just getting out of the driveway.
Well, maybe with global climate change, NYC might be able to sell off a few snow plows to Austin.
The dogs (all 3 of ‘em) are nice and warm here in the living room with us — they’re mostly “indoor” dogs anyhow. For our one cat, who is primarily an outdoor cat, I locked her into the laundry room with a big blanket on the floor, a litter box, and her food and water dishes. She’s doing just fine in there.
We do have a fireplace, and just under a cord of dry wood stacked and covered on the side of the garage.
If the power goes out, we’ll just bundle up, keep the fireplace going, and fire up the generator for any lighting/electricity we need.
4. If you ran out of food and Preston was your house guest, would you kill him and eat him?
Here in Houston, we were all happy and prepared for ‘shut-down’ mode… I stayed up late watching movies with the kids, and even let them stay up a little extra late thinking the weather reporter’s panic was justifiable.
On the ride into work, a few drops hit the windshield and I stared at each drop longing for the transition, debating whether to return home immediately and shelter in place, or be brave… hit the wipers a few times, but no — the stupid drops just whooshed away.
Stupid non-weather.
lol anonymous…i hope preston is laughing too
I was, Dianne… In any case, we liberals are used to bearing the brunt when conservatives don’t plan for the future. :p
I’d eat you, Preston. Woman can only survive on the basic food groups for so long.
Well, he’s got to taste a hell of a lot better than . . . Dan!
haha. Thanks, anon.
lmao
Everybody HAS to go to Drudge and watch the video called bumper car madness in Seattle. It’s one of the most hilarious things I’ve ever seen.
OMG. Thanks Dianne- the first car was ridiculous. Who would think that you could total your car going 10 mph?