Who Left the Fridge Open?

[TheBelly]

Things are getting pretty bad, by Texas standards:





but this is what folks are acting like:

[waxthis]

Things are getting pretty bad, by Texas standards:





but this is what folks are acting like:

Its a dub!

[TheBelly]

True!

[Gman]

Just wait until there's an ice storm a'comin'.

The grocery stores will be out of bread, milk, batteries, candles, etc., like they'll be socked in for a week.

Bill Engvall has a funny commentary about snow. 1/4" in Texas and they'll shut everything down. A couple of inches in Denver and the folks here are saying "I can still find my golf ball."

[fullmann]

Just wait until there's an ice storm a'comin'.

The grocery stores will be out of bread, milk, batteries, candles, etc., like they'll be socked in for a week.

Bill Engvall has a funny commentary about snow. 1/4" in Texas and they'll shut everything down. A couple of inches in Denver and the folks here are saying "I can still find my golf ball."

Having grown up here I never thought about snow as scary. I moved to Georgia for a couple years and the locals would joke about all the milk, bread and eggs being sold out. Apparently French toast is the food of the apocalypse?

I always thought it was it was a joke, until the weatherman mentioned there may be snow, just a mention, not a guarantee, not even really in the forecast. Then I went to the store.....

[james_bond_007]

I lived in Dallas for about 5 years.

It's true...
a) Only people that showed up for work were transplanted Yankees
b) Grocery stores were wiped out of milk, bread, etc.
c) No one on the roads
(To their defense, the roads were often iced over, due to Gulf moisture, and they did not use salt...only sand. Rumor had it that the water table wasn't very far below the ground, and the salt was known to leach into it..again "Rumor has it"; however they were quite the speeders down there, and I suspect that had a lot to do with why no one was on the roads).

When the ice storms came, and I left work, it was almost as if someone had dunked my car in water, repeatedly, and let it freeze. The car was gently encased in ice.

As we could not get the doors open to get in the car to get the ice scraper, we used our badges to chip away at the ice until we could get a door open.
The next day, the Security dept was "torqued off" as they had about 100+ broken badges, claimed to be $25/ea to replace.

[PSS]

(To their defense, the roads were often iced over, due to Gulf moisture, and they did not use salt...only sand. Rumor had it that the water table wasn't very far below the ground, and the salt was known to leach into it..again "Rumor has it"; however they were quite the speeders down there, and I suspect that had a lot to do with why no one was on the roads).

When the ice storms came, and I left work, it was almost as if someone had dunked my car in water, repeatedly, and let it freeze. The car was gently encased in ice.

I've been living on the western slope for 6 years and have yet to see the roads get as bad as they get in SE Kansas. There would be so much ice built up on the roads that you could ice skate on them. Very few people missed work either.

My grandparents lived in Louisiana and it seemed like every Christmas or Thanksgiving we went down there the roads were coated in ice. Usually around Ft Smith and Little Rock AR. It would look like a war zone with all the roll overs and cars in the ditch. They would spread salt but it didn't seem to help with all the rain they would get.

[TheBelly]

One of the DACs that works here is also from an area that gets cold regularly. Her and I laugh our butts off at all the folks dressed up in every piece of snivel gear ever invented.

[Ah Pook]

Just another day in paradise.

[Sharpienads]

Out of the 7 years I was stationed at Hood, I only saw it snow once. Of course, I was deployed almost every winter so I got to see it snow in Northern Iraq and Afghanistan... almost the same thing.