25 degrees in Austin

Blimey!!!


Look after yourselves you USians.


We'd kind of miss you.

It is cold here, cold as a well digger's ass. It has been for weeks and weeks. It's so cold, when i let the little doggies out back to do their business, they do it right quick and run to the back door. You know it's cold when the little dogs don't want to be outside. Yesterday the high was -4 (wait a minute . . . that's 25F), but we've also had steady gale force winds for weeks. So, with the wind chill it was -25 (which is -13F). I even have to put on shoes to go outside!

Just got up. 7:50am

Snow on ground.

Looks like we're sending the snow Edgar's way.

Currently 22F degrees wind chill 15F

It'll melt in the afternoon, then refreeze tonight.

The show's over starting tomorrow, when it'll go back up into the 50's.

Carry on.

We were up at 3:00 a.m. (yay, 9-month-old baby), saw the snow, woke the girls, and played for about 10 minutes before it was just Too Damn Cold.

Aww... It does make me appreciate this lingering white stuff more when I remember how rare it is for some people. I absolutely hated being completely deprived of snow when we lived in L.A.

How much snow was it?

Are you guys all running a water drip at night so the pipes don't freeze? Places that aren't built for this kind of cold tend to have external or not well insulated water pipes. A slow drip should keep enough water moving through the pipes so that they don't freeze/burst.

1-2 inches, I guess. That's a huge amount for us.

For several days, now. I know too many people who didn't do that the last time, and fixing a burst pipe is a mess.

Ha. They predicted we would have up to six inches of snow. What happened last night was, a layer of warm air moved in. The snow melted then came down as precipitation. We had some ice problems, but nothing as bad as all that. I saw one patch of black ice on my way to work and it was not that hard to get across. I did spend most of the morning putting ice melt on the stairs at the apartments, but in the scheme of things that's no biggie. I feel very lucky.

We put heat lamps in all the patio stackable washers/dryers closets. One resident forgot to shut the door and have the lamp on. His pipe burst, but it was during working hours.

Thanks for that, good idea that people can see the need -

here's my recent experience - I was helped by a post of butrflynet.
http://able2know.org/topic/167317-7#post-4498713

I saw this at the SF Chronicle -
Youth of Texas profoundly affected by frozen precipitation: A half inch of snow causes great rejoicing at 3 a.m. at the University of Texas at Austin.
Photo: Tamir Kalifa / Daily Texan

cheap kitty-litter makes a good side-walk/drive-way traction bed.

Yes it does, but be careful about tracking that stuff back into the house. It has clay in it. After we ruined a couple of small rugs, we switched to sand.

We got 14" of the damned white stuff last Tuesday, and today we got a few more inches. Sunday may bring more, and another big storm is due through Tulsa on Tuesday or Wednesday. As surely everybody knows by now, I do not like the cold. I've only been out of the house once since Tuesday because two of our three cars are buried in drifts. I've never seen this much snow in Tulsa before, and we have no idea how long it will be before the temps get high enough to melt all of this.

All that said, as long as we have power, I'm okay. Not happy, but okay.

What, no freezing rain?

I remember the storm that cost you your power, and the happy neighbors with their own generator.

No freezing rain, just snow and more snow. More coming tomorrow, they say.

Hubby and SonofEva have managed to help a couple of other people with shoveling, but have they dug out our cars? Or a pathway to the trash cans, at least? Nope. If I didn't have a chest cold, I'd do it myself. Screwed up back or not. We're all getting very testy around here.

Roger, people in Tulsa still have not recovered from the big ice storm three years ago when all the trees were badly damaged and there was no power for 10 days. Every time the weather forecast says a big ice/snow storm is coming, it's like the entire city has PTSS. People freak out over the tiniest things. And as soon as the first flake falls, people start trading stories about "The Big One" in 2007-8.

I got spam from Carnival Cruise Lines the other day with the subject line, "Somewhere in the Caribbean it's 83 degrees." Somebody in their marketing department has excellent timing. I still haven't deleted that spam. I'm not finished looking at the photos.

currently 32 F, sunny skies and NO snow in albaturkey.

Just came in from the store and didn't even think about turning on the heat.