Polar Vortex

[goatgurl]

so true here too baymule, 1 snow flake and the grocery stores are cleaned out, two flakes and the road crews are out scattering sand, three flakes and every thing shuts down. and ice, lets not talk about the idiots with their 4x4's and ice... some how they don't seem to get the concept of going around a curve or stopping on a sheet of ice. i just snuggle down and stay home out of everyones way till its over and the good thing is that here it never lasts long.

 

[greybeard]

You just described most of Texas. Don't forget closing the highways because we don't have equipment to deal with the ice.

I lived out in San Angelo for nearly 10 years and had to drive up to Amarillo twice one February.
First time was a breeze, but the 2nd trip, at night-- was nasty. Hit snow in Midland, HEAVY snow by the time I got to Lubbock, and between Lubbock and Amarillo, snow covered ice. It was an 'interesting' and LOOONG slow trip, but I had spent a couple years working around Elk City Ok, so I knew to just crawl along.

 

[babsbag]

@BrownSheep Don't worry about generalizing Californians, for the most part they deserve it. I just happen to be of a generation that lived in CA before they all became idiots and part of the entitlement mindset. It is a little embarrassing.

When I moved to Anderson, where I live now, I was really embarrassed to tell people I moved from the Bay Area, they really thought we were all liberal losers; they didn't know that I didn't grow up there, I was living there out of necessity for DH's job and I hated it.