Texas and other southern states in our thoughts

[Sld1959]

We here in the northern states are well prepared for winter storms, so we are praying for speedy recovery for our brothers and sisters down south and out west dealing with the after effects of strong winter storms. Be safe...

 

[TEXASforLIFE]

As of yesterday on hwy287 trucks are running speed limit, but are still having wrecks! What idiots! No loss of power so far, just stupid drivers! I'll be going home this afternoon because of the hills being more thawed out (temp above freezing) finally. It'll be crazy driving for the DFW area that I came from 2 days ago. My son in south Texas is used too the weather of the more northern Texas (I e. West Texas). Thanks for your thoughts! Be safe all nno matter where you live!

 

[michael.ed]

Icy here in DFW, (Sachse). I‘m used to ice and snow (grew up in Amarillo). But with the quantity of drivers, plus the icy conditions, I stay off the roads here. The beauty of Texas is that by next week it’ll probably be 80 degrees.

 

[KillerFord1977]

Issue in NTx is the ice.
About .5” in most places, so folks forget and get out and going then slide all over.
Watched a neighbors car get slid into by the other neighbor who insisted on going out to their office.

 

[TEXASforLIFE]

Back in 12/?/87 Los Angeles it got down to 34° with sleet, so I stayed of the roads for good cause! Nuf said!

 

[HansGruber]

This was my drive to work about a month ago. I’m stopped in the side of the road, that’s a coworker in the Hummer ahead of me. The curve marker would disappear ever 20-30 seconds, and I would just be able to make out the glow of taillights.

We took off about 10 minutes after this shot; took us 30 minutes to go 7 miles…

We know the secret to driving in this shi(itake mushroom) weather, though…

Drive slow.

 

[javbike]

Be safe everyone!!!

 

[Texas Buzzard]

I've lived in Presque Isle, Maine... Minot, North Dakota, Anchorage, Alaska... and Amarillo, Texas. All with some pretty bad winters. Have to say however none measured close to Minot, ND. Because it's so flat there the wind can blow unbelievably strong, and during the winter it gets pretty tough to deal with. Visibility can be only a couple of feet at times. Currently here in Houston, TX streets are fine, traffic moving at posted + speeds (it is TX), just cold. Got down in the mid-twenties last night, and currently it's 33 degrees at 3PM. But it never lasts long.

 

[TacticalPirate]

Central texas is fine today, it's cold but sun has melted most of the ice and snow, roads are safe apart from bad drivers.

 

[Old_Me]

yeah, here in New England right now in fact, cold, freezing rain, and icy conditions.

much of the blizzards snow from last weekend has melted, but the storm drains are clogged from that melting, so the streets will be deep skating rinks over night.