Texas Weather

[gorb]

Not very common at all. We usually get some snow or ice once or twice a year, but I've never seen this much ice here before. It arrived late Thursday and there are still plenty of bridges with several inches of ice on them.

 

[Wreckem]

"Major" winter storms like this(where road conditions are terrible/schools get canceled) only occur every few years in the DFW area. However, every year there is typically at least one minor winter storm usually in late Jan/Feb.

That said the last three major ones were Xmas 2009(mostly ice, I think for DFW airport, the 2009 storm was worse in terms of # of cancellation), Superbowl week in 2011(more snow than freezing rain), and of course this one.

 

[Brian Stirling]

Hey, Texas may not get nearly the snow and freezing weather that more northern areas get, but what they do get is nasty nasty stuff. We don't often get black ice up north but that's typical in Texas and that shit is bad. The coefficient of friction of that Texas stuff is like 0.000000000000000000001.

I'll take a foot of snow any day over an inch of ice that's slicker than teflon snot!


Brian

 

[momeNt]

I was mapping out places to live that had to meet some non-weather related criteria, and DFW was topping the list over Chicago and Boston.

I would really like a longer golf season, Chicago is April-October. DFW would get me like an extra two months right?

 

[slightlyhuman]

momeNt, DFW is actually an awesome place to live.

lots to do and not near the hassle of Dallas.

 

[slightlyhuman]

See, don't listen to me....

I'm still waiting on our meetup at Guy's burger

 

[fjmeat]

Here is the 5th day of our ice storm. My drive to work.

 

[slightlyhuman]

be safe fjmeat.


also, i prefer beef.

 

[rudeguy]

ok you jerks sent us up a freaking blizzard

I won't pick on you again! JUST MAKE IT STOP!!!