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Snowing Again in Austin, TX!
December 31, 2017, 09:51 PM
StorminNorminSnowing Again in Austin, TX!
It rarely snows in Central Texas, but once every many years and here it has snowed twice in one year. Sure this is nothing like what other states get but pretty cool to see snow here. It just started and is coming down pretty good. Hope it keeps up for a while.
NRA Benefactor Life Member December 31, 2017, 09:55 PM
TexasScrubThe cold weather must be stuck on Mopac. Or 35 South. Now get out there and make me a snow angel.
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He looked like an accountant or a serial-killer type. Definitely one of the service industries.
December 31, 2017, 09:58 PM
mr kablammoNot yet here, a bit south.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre.
December 31, 2017, 10:00 PM
VanwallJust think what it would be like if we were not experiencing "Global Warming!"
December 31, 2017, 10:01 PM
David LeeThere seems to be some alien life form behind that car..
December 31, 2017, 10:07 PM
StorminNorminJust looked at the radar and it looks like a small band passing through so it won’t be much. It is strange that earlier the Weather Channelsaid it was 26 degrees and now it says it is 37.
NRA Benefactor Life Member December 31, 2017, 10:45 PM
Il CattivoI thought snow was supposed to warm things up from freezing for some reason.
December 31, 2017, 10:45 PM
JALLENRadar has that snow area now south of Austin, moving this way, but it is a very small area of precipitation.
Now 30 here, forecast to be 24 low tonight.
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown December 31, 2017, 11:11 PM
mr kablammoI brought the plants indoors before sundown. Friends report snow nearby but a dram of scotch, a soft couch, and the Beverly Hillbillies have transfixed kablammo.
https://youtu.be/6lWO3Xmwq50The Great Feud episode.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre.
December 31, 2017, 11:45 PM
StorminNorminquote:
Originally posted by mr kablammo:
I brought the plants indoors before sundown. Friends report snow nearby but a dram of scotch, a soft couch, and the Beverly Hillbillies have transfixed kablammo.
https://youtu.be/6lWO3Xmwq50The Great Feud episode.
Yup, some wine, a fire, and a Twilight Zone marathon have kept us cozy. 25 degrees now.
NRA Benefactor Life Member January 01, 2018, 12:08 AM
OzarkwoodsIn New Braunfels, TX not snowing here but damn cold enough to.
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January 01, 2018, 05:16 AM
MRBTXTalked to my sister who was in Pennsylvania. She said it was 2. Two degrees. No thank you.
January 01, 2018, 05:49 AM
BillyBadBassJust a light dusting out here "a little west of weird". Temp in the low twenties. There is a reason that I live south and this kind of weather is a major part of it.
January 01, 2018, 07:30 AM
arfmel17 here in Brewster county. A thick coat of frost on everything. Fingers crossed we don't have a power outage.
January 01, 2018, 09:39 AM
ChicagoSigManI remember when I was in school in Austin in the early 90s, there was a freeze warning, and the entire UT campus closed fr the day. No classes, no buses, libraries closed, etc. Coming from Chicago, I thought that was a bit of an overreation.
January 01, 2018, 09:47 AM
goose5Welcome to the party.
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OH, Bonnie McMurray!
January 01, 2018, 10:13 AM
JALLENquote:
Originally posted by ChicagoSigMan:
I remember when I was in school in Austin in the early 90s, there was a freeze warning, and the entire UT campus closed fr the day. No classes, no buses, libraries closed, etc. Coming from Chicago, I thought that was a bit of an overreation.
When I was at UT, ~50 years ago, it snowed. I had set the alarm early, to spend the morning in the language lab, KTBC radio (now KLBJ) was on, saying there had been a pretty good snow overnight, schools would be closed, UT closed, so I jumped back in bed.
As the morning wore on, about 9 o’clock, Austin PD announced there had been 143 accidents, they were overwhelmed; if you had one, just push the cars to the side of the road. The Texas Supreme Court met, though, the judges brought to the Capitol on National Guard half tracks! They had no snow removal equipment, probably, anywhere south of Dallas.
I stayed warm and dry in the squalid little basement of the decrepit little house that the Dean of Student Housing had adjudged “Approved.”
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown January 01, 2018, 01:02 PM
maxdogSnow didn’t make it to Wimberley. Sure is cold though.
January 01, 2018, 01:06 PM
tatortoddSnow didn't make it to North Houston, but it was chilly by Texas standards. Hit 30F last night and was still 35 when I fired up the BGE at noon.
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DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. January 01, 2018, 01:38 PM
flashguyquote:
Originally posted by David Lee:
There seems to be some alien life form behind that car..
I think that's a tree trunk wrapped in lights for the holidays.
No snow here. Cold, yes, but no snow.
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth