Maybe Texans are not as tough as they say they are

The University of Texas is closed today due to "inclement waether". Good grief! The temperatures are in the 30's (20's at night) with some ice on the ground, but no precipitation. The weather was like this almost all winter when I was in college in Massachusetts, and the university only closed once, and that was because of a blizzard. Are Texans not accustomed to handling winter weather?

:rofl: what? they got no indoor facilities :shrug:

...you don't "do" hot either.

:rofl:

I kid. I'm a former Texan myself, as you know. It's my second home.

The jogging trails are full of Texans "doing" 100 degree weather like it's no big deal. ;)

But I can assure you that native Texans, ones who have been there for generations are very tough.

It's the all the johnny-come-latelies, you know, first and second generation yuppie types that are the pussies.

cause it wouldn't take shit off'ah no one :rofl:

above.

Both them buggers are Johnny-Come-Latelies to Texas.

plenty of 4th and 5th generation Texans failed to make it to work this morning - just a tiny bit of ice

:hi:

when it snowed a few inches.

When it comes to winter weather, Texans are a bunch of pussies.

the only snowplows are at dfw & love airports.

dg

not very often, and you run the risk of accidents. So to stop the crazies from driving to fast on the ice and killing each other, they shut down. You Should see DFW when it ices, it is like a bumper car ride. 1000s of accidents in a matter of a few hours.

When i was out feeding i had to drive through drifts that went over the hood of my truck and blocked off the radiator.

This morning it was 11, with a high of 24

We had snow in the panhandle, but in east Texas, and around Austin, it don't happen much.

We had 1 snow with 12+ inches, been here 55 years, most i've ever seen, 2 weeks later we had 8 inches. Never seen the ranch more beautiful, doesn't happen very often.

are used to cold cold weather, have some of this southern humid heat that we get in the summer!! It would be very similar!!!! ;)

It just doesn't last long, no matter what it is. So it's tolerable.

which part of MS you live in. There is no heat like that of the Mississippi Delta! It literally takes your breath away when you walk outside. Luckily I don't live in the delta anymore. The summers are unbearable!

things are almost never shut down in Chicago.

Chicagoans never let a little thing like the weather to get in the way of anything.

I went to my daughters graduation at Great Lakes in August many years ago. Sheer misery, many of the young women passed out during the ceremony. I just thought it was hot and humid in south TX.

although it's not as frequent, but we still get it.

Basically the whole month of August.

I'd rather NOT be at work or anywhere I HAD to be for any reason. You yankee folk just don't get it do you?

They did like 4 hours straight of nothing but traffic and weather coverage, ha ha! There were at least three semi accidents, including one that burst into flames. :scared:

Me, I'll take a snow day any old time. 'Tis the season to lol around in the house and do nothing. :D

Her roof blew off & she hasn't gotten any FEMA money yet. I do feel for her.

Much of Texas is not used to heavy winter weather. Just as other parts of the country are not used to 5 month long summers, floods, tornados & hurricanes. I have an air conditioner & will accept the other risks if it means I don't freeze my buns for months every year.

Edited to add: Since I commute via bus & light rail, I dress for the weather. People who drive to work get chilly walking through the parking garage & come in complaining. Of course, they wear light jackets, no gloves & no mufflers!

i live in nj. it snows here, we get ice, we have freeze/thaw cycles that change road conditions as the sun moves across the sky and we have municipalities that spread so much salt that it makes for hazardous conditions when the roads are dry.

we also have an enormous segment of our driving population who seems completely unaware of any of it. our 2" snow fall this weekend resulted in 600+ accidents statewide. i can't imagine what a sheen of ice would do to texas drivers who don't experience these things regularly. i lived in tempe, az for a while and i was dumbfounded at the way drivers acted when it rained. the road would get slick, but very few people took it into consideration. a brief thunderstorm could cause havoc on the roads.

i think its a blessing when things are closed due to weather and people stay home.

But we don't usually get snow. We get sleet and ice, that turn the roads into a skating rink within minutes.

Our cities don't have the huge operations that go into cleaning it up like cities up north. Sure we have sanding trucks, but when our overpasses ice over, they're skating rinks. And they build them TALL here.

The first time I got on the I-35/LBJ ramp to go eastbound, I thought I was going airborne. We're talking TALL.

And consider, plenty of the folks here are northern transplants, who can handle the weather just fine. It's those "native Texans" who think they're bulletproof just because they're in a huge V8 truck or an SUV that become lethal. They don't what it means to slow down. Those are the folks causing the wrecks crispini mentioned.

And they're the reason "inclement weather" days rule!

and aggies.

We use Diazinon for an Aggie infestation. Doesn't kill them, just makes them go back to College Station.

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/velvet_ants.html

water moccasins, copperheads, cotton mouths

Rattlesnakes, coral Snakes, Scorpions, many different types of aracnids.

And worst of all Horse Cripplers.
Was chaseing my cousin across the pasture, barefooted, stepped on a Horse Crippler. Took me 30 yards before i could put my foot back down.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Horse+Crippler+Cactus&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t&fl=0&x=wrt

in texas... ice ice ice ice ice ice ice ice

:scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared:

Wimps. :D

particularly in the fact that during the summer, I think heat is the worst, and in the winter, I think cold is worse, but at least in hot weather, you can't step outside and see exposed skin tissue freeze in five minutes.:scared:

http://www.weather.gov/om/windchill/index.shtml

why is it that Minnesotans will drive through snow like it's no big deal but a rainy summer day has traffic crawling to 30 miles per hour? What's with that? And what's with the tailgating in the Twin Cities? Never in my life have I seen so many fender benders that involved 3-4 cars at a time because drivers had no sense of safe distance. I'm not even going to bring up the complaints about "hot" 89 degree weather...

;)

On really rainy days here in MN, we all drive like we're maniacs! Well...at least out here in the country.

Gotta laugh, especially when it hit 110 and above.

Several semis got stuck on the overpasses, the Expedition I saw in the ditch on the news brought a smile to my face :)
Pure ice when I left for work but I only have 3 miles to drive. Black ice everywhere. It's getting warm now, 24 degrees at the airport, was 2 degrees outside my house before the sun came out. Wind chill is another story....

It's the other drivers (er, those that can't drive on ice) that scare me. So, I stay home as well.

I've never seen such a buch of pansies as Texans

:D

The local news in Austin reported 80 car wrecks last night due to the ice. Dallas was suppose to get it worse so I can only imagine how many wrecks occurred up there. We try to put sand down on the very rare occasion that our roads do become icy but that's all we have.

Besides, the wimp thing goes both ways. So many states freak out if they experience heat greater than 95 degrees and that makes us laugh so I guess it all evens out at the end of the day.

fallen for a mincing, prissy, frat-boy, cowboy-wannabe like the Shrub. I was born and raised in San Antonio, so I can say this. I live in Washington State now, because being from Texas just isn't the source of pride it once was.

Somehow I doubt it.

Wotta buncha wussies. Haven't they heard of salt and sand here? Jeez...