We have snow on the ground in New Orleans.
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It's just plain dumb when you can't simply copy and paste to a board. This what happens when you let Nerds run the world.
I assumed that somebody knows how to do it, just not a dinosaur like me.
We’ve got an inch or so in Houston and it’s still coming down. Looking at opening an Arctic Cat dealership😉
In Austin - had to drop my boy off with his sitter who is scared to drive in bad weather. To be fair, the road crews are hopelessly outmatched by any ice and snow. No salt and almost no plowing. Anyway, I just stuck to mainly well-traveled roads and the plowed lane when I could and kept it at 40 except for off/on ramps which were ice rinks.
Austin has a ton of hills and I had to take a longer route after drop off. A dude was signaling people to turn around on one road. There are a lot of homeless in the area I was in and I thought he was just another crazy drug addict, but he was providing a public service. He was warning people away from the crest of a hill that was sheer ice. Told me he saw 8 crashes in 40 min.
Anyway, my experience has taught me to keep it slow and try and avoid other cars - let them go around and skid if there in such a hurry.
There will be a lot of trucks and SUVs in ditches until it warms up by noon
Austin has a ton of hills and I had to take a longer route after drop off. A dude was signaling people to turn around on one road. There are a lot of homeless in the area I was in and I thought he was just another crazy drug addict, but he was providing a public service. He was warning people away from the crest of a hill that was sheer ice. Told me he saw 8 crashes in 40 min.
Anyway, my experience has taught me to keep it slow and try and avoid other cars - let them go around and skid if there in such a hurry.
There will be a lot of trucks and SUVs in ditches until it warms up by noon
Living in Austin was surreal in terms of how incapable people are with regards to snow and ice on roads. I remember people in my office casually talking about sliding off roads as if it was just a normal/typical outcome from driving in winter weather.
Infrastructure isnt capable of handling it and a ton of locals don't/won't adjust their driving habits for it.
3 degrees and light snow in Tulsa this morning. That's pretty cold by our standards
My point is jumping through all those hoops is totally unnecessary. Nerds At Work!
By the way I'm a card carrying member of that Dinosaur Club.
Just north of you in Round Rock. They had the roads all brined a few days ago, and actually did a double coating yesterday. They even came up my private road. Different County services than Austin though. I only drive to Austin on rare occurrences anymore. Impossible to do any plowing as roads all have raised reflectors and they'd be scraped off. Brining is a better alternative to rock salt, as it stays on the road.
Unfortunately, 90% of people don't know how to drive. Seeing people doing 70 and others doing 20 on their brakes on the same road. Just working from home and protecting myself from uninsured motorists today . I just wish they'd build houses with freeze resistant external faucets and no exposed water pipes in the attic.
I lived in Dallas for a couple years. One December there was an ice storm. I had previously lived in Michigan and grew up in PA. I got up and went into work as normal. Was careful and no problem. I get there and the company was a ghost town. Hardly anyone made it in.
