AUstin, has .....s-n-o-w !

Interesting...

or I could just get a blowdrier and 50 feet of extension cord!

Do you have a shovel? Spade? Anything that has a somewhat sharp edge and a long handle?

If there is any water at all (as opposed to completely solid ice), you could probably chip it off. Just go WHAMMO about in the middle and then work from there.

Wow, I'm so abashed.

I just started another thread about this, and didn't realize shewolf beat me to the punch.

I'm working from home today.
Yesterday I had to go into the office in the morning for a couple of hours, but left as soon as I could. Thank God for email and thumb drives.

I'm not rushing out in the morning either, probably not until noon.

well dear.. its is 2 right now and everything is still frozen solid

you aint rushin out no where

I'll just hook up my sled cats.

The girls were very excited to pick icicles, make snowballs, and teeny-tiny snowpeople.

No doubt it will be on the blog in the next few days....

Oh my god, a half an inch of snow!!! Shut down the whole town! We've got snow! And ICE! Oh my!

You guys are funny.

Ill trade you!

Over the weekend we got several INCHES of sleet (I've never seen that much before) and THEN freezing rain. There's four inches of ice on my deck, and three-foot drifts of ice outside my door. You can't even shovel it. It's packed solid. I haven't been anywhere since Friday.

The temperature isn't supposed to get above freezing for at least two more days.

Actually Kicky.. austin IS shut down

and it is funny.

I used to live in NM where we would get 6 inches in one day.
You STILL went to work, just slower.


here? You THINK its gonna snow in the next 10 years? Oh holy ****.. everyone locks their doors after raiding the grocery store for "disaster needs"

Hmm, I wonder how they react if there's really winter :wink:

Look at this -

( less then 2 inches of either Ice or Snow and this is what happens to austin)

Taken from here..




CLOSED TUESDAY, JANUARY 16


COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES:

* Austin Community College
* Academy at Austin: A Paul Mitchell School
* Concordia University
* Huston-Tillotson University
* St. Edward's University (Opens at noon)
* Southwestern University
* Texas State University
* Texas College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Will open at noon on Tuesday)
* University Of Texas
* Virginia College at Austin


PUBLIC SCHOOLS:

* Austin ISD
* Bartlett ISD
* Bastrop ISD
* Blanco ISD
* Burnet CISD
* Coupland ISD
* Del Valle ISD
* Dime Box Public Schools
* Dripping Springs ISD
* Eanes ISD
* Elgin ISD
* Florence ISD
* Georgetown ISD
* Granger ISD
* Harper ISD
* Hays ISD
* Hutto ISD
* Jarrell ISD
* Johnson City ISD
* Lago Vista ISD
* Lake Travis ISD
* Leander ISD
* Liberty Hill ISD
* Lockhart ISD
* Luling ISD
* Manor ISD
* Marble Falls ISD
* McDade ISD
* Pflugerville ISD
* Prarie Lea ISD (Opens at 10 a.m.)
* Rockdale ISD
* Round Rock ISD
* San Marcos CISD
* Smithville Schools
* Taylor ISD
* Texas School For The Deaf
* Thrall ISD
* Thorndale ISD
* Wimberley ISD


PRIVATE SCHOOLS:

* Austin Can Academy
* Austin Christian Academy
* A.P.S. Child Development Center
* Brentwood Christian School
* Dripping Springs Christian Academy
* Dripping Springs United Methodist Church Preschool
* Faith Baptist Academy In Bastrop (Opens 10am
* Wednesday)
* Highland Park Baptist Church School
* Hill Country Christian School of Austin
* JCCA
* Katherine Anne Porter School
* Kids R Kids
* Kingdom Academy
* Legacy Oaks Christian School
* Mrs. Mac's Shining Stars (Both Locations)
* Mt. Sinai Christian Academy
* Noah's Ark Christian Pre-School (Both Locations)
* Northwest Montessori House Of Children
* Pflugerville Montessori School
* Providence Christian Academy
* Redeemer Lutheran School
* Round Rock Christian
* St. Francis School
* St. Paul Lutheran School And Concordia Academy
* San Marcos Baptist Academy
* Town & Country Children's Montessori
* Trinity Episcopal School
* Twin Oaks Montessori
* YMCA After School, Williamson County
* YMCA After School, Pflugerville


GOVERNMENT:

* Attorney General's Office
* City of Austin Offices
* The City of Lockhart Offices
* Bastrop County Offices
* Blanco County Offices
* Burnet County Offices
* Camp Mabry
* Cart, San Marcos Transit, and Bastrop Cart Routes and Offices
* City of Lakeway, Council Meeting Postponed
* City of San Marcos
* City of Round Rock
* Hays County Offices
* Llano County Offices
* Taylor City Offices (closed until 1pm)
* TECQ
* Texas Attorney General's Office
* Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
* Texas Dept. of Agriculture
* Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission
* Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice
* Texas Health & Human Services
* Texas Dept. of Housing & Community Affairs
* Texas Dept. of Insurance
* Texas General Land Office
* Texas Parks & Wildlife (Opens at Noon)
* Texas Dept. of Public Safety
* Texas Railroad Commission
* Travis County Offices
* University of Texas System Offices
* Veteran's Land Board
* Williamson County Offices
* Williamson City Health District Offices


LOCAL BUSINESSES:

* 3m
* All Cart, San Marcos Transit, and Bastrop Cat Routes And Offices
* Austin Diagnostics Will Be Closed Until 11:00 Am
* Austin Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
* Austin Regional Association
* Ballet Austin
* Compass Bank-All Austin Locations
* Dance Associates Inc.-No Classes
* Dance Centre
* Dell - first and second shift cancelled in mnfact. & closing all campuses in Central Texas
* First Baptist Church of Llano
* Georgetown Medical Center
* IBM
* JCCA
* Macy's South in Cedar Park
* Millco Contracting
* Rotary Club of Austin. Noon meeting has been canceled
* Scott & White Clinics in Williamson Co.
* Sematech
* Spansion- B Shift should call Alert Line after 3 p.m.
* South Austin Kumon Center
* Superior Metal Products
* Sweet Home Baptist Church- Winter Revival Cancelled
* TCEQ
* Teachers Retirement System
* Texas Orthopedics
* Texas Workforce Commission
* Tokyo Electron
* Tower Cleaning
* Urology Specialists of Austin
* VA Clinics in Austin & Cedar Park

Sweet Home Baptist Church- Winter Revival Cancelled

Now that is damn funny! Praise the lord! Amen!

We had about four inches of snow today!

Mo loves snow and he woke up this birthday morning to huge flakes drifting down.

We hiked up to school to discover only about 100 kids and 20 or so teachers had made it in yet. The grouped the kindergartener's, first graders and second graders together. They were looking for extra hands to help out so I stuck around.

Mo got to wear his birthday crown while the whole gang sang him happy birthday. Then we all painted and played with play dough for an hour and a half until they decided to close the school.

Walking home we ran into Mr. B who then decided to just blow off work and take us out for pizza.

What a fun day. I love snow.

What a bunch of wimps! You get an inch of snow and a little ice and no one can walk or drive - jeepers. I had several feet of snow in the past and had to haul my butt into work.

You haven't lived until you've experienced the horrible sound of hundreds of ice scrapers simultaneously scrape-scrape-scraping on hundreds of car windshields after a concert or other social event in mid-january in a northern town.

In Austin's defense...most cities in the South have little or no snow removal equipment. The people who live there have little or no experience driving on snow or ice. Nobody owns a snow shovel.

When we lived in Cleveland, Ohio, they had 77 inches of snow that winter. But we never once had to drive on it. The streets were cleared by 8 a.m. every morning. Here in Tulsa, they only have enough equipment and salt/sand mixture to clear major streets and intersections. Getting to those streets, though, you're on your own. With 4" of ice on these hills, a lot of people can't get out of their neighborhoods. The stores don't begin to stock enough de-icer because this hardly ever happens.

Yeah, I know, it IS funny that the city shut down.

I remember growing up in Jersey and I'd drive to school in a blizzard, or go to work. No big deal. But there, they'd salt the roads and everything.

I was driving through a cemetary once during the winter, tried to do a K turn, and almost drove my fathers Lincoln off a cliff. The wheels where a-spinnin' and I got out and looked and saw I was about this close (holds thumb and index finger close together) to the edge. No cells phones then, no siree, you just dealt with it. I thought it was funny that I was in a pretty appropriate place to kill myself.

Yeah, with no salt, and just some crappy sand, it stays slippery.

But on the other hand, it'll be like 50 degrees out and these little kids will be hauling ass down my street, going to school at the end of the block, with their hoodies all pulled up and their hands jammed into their pockets. Same thing with a lot of adults, like it's freezing or something.

Jesus.

As long as the rest of the city wont drive.. neither will I ..

I've posted on this elsewhere - I was raised in snowland as a child, but had never driven in it, living in coastal California as I did for decades. WEEEEEE had twelve inches in this neighborhood for a bunch of days recently. Now this is nothing compared to Chicago, where we arrived in a blizzard in 1950, but it bemuses me now. Not only don't I have snow tires, chains, or any kind of de-ice-ing tool (I used my sponge mop holder to get ten inches of snow off my car), I also don't have boots, or clete-like shoes. Turns out not a lot of my neighbors do either.

Gonna be 12 degrees tonight.. Dys told me it was 5 sometime last week, but I handn't noticed.
Pacco is well prepared, he's double coated.

I do miss albq snow.

It is nothing like the cold here. Here it is bitter , bone chilling cold.
Its the humidity.


There it is just cold, but not painful.

(sigh)