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Originally Posted by antikristuseke
That amount of snow grinds things to a halt? 
You people would die in Estonia. |
We had a freak snow here in Texas last year. Several inches over night. I can remember one other time in 30 years that it snowed so much here. Usually if it snows here, it will dust the ground and melt by noon
while it didn't grind things to a halt, it probably should have.
Problem in Texas is the ice storms... not so much that its snow and ice, just that on Monday and Tuesday it will be a humid 75 degrees then Wednesday its in the high 30s and it rains ALL DAY LONG and the overnight temperature drops to about 18 degrees which means it begins to sleet, and the existing 1/2 inch of standing water on the ground freezes.
So... Thursday morning
it looks like the Ice Queen has invaded the place. The ground, the roads, the trees, the houses, the power lines - everything frozen. and many of those trees fall or lose limbs due to the weight bringing down power lines with them.
in 2004 (or was it 05) we were without power for 4 days while crews cleaned up the mess.
And of course its Texas. We have to salt the roads once per decade so such a thing takes time to organize. and of course you know i have snow chains in my garage ready to go right?
