North Texas "cold snap"

[Z RENCH]

We have a disaster here. At least that's what my wife thinks. The snow has gotten so deep on the satellite dish that her DirecTV reception is blocked. So she's been trying to figure out how to clean off that dish on the roof. Well, actually she's been trying to figure out how to get me to go clean off that dish.

I always mount my dish where it is easy to get at it to service it just for such "disasters". Learned that from multiple years in Detroit and Chicago

 

[Bird]

Yep, it's getting lighter outside, but snowing as heavy or heavier than ever. And the NWS radar does not make it appear the end is near.

 

[Stargazer]

Bird: Another thought maybe hitting the back of dish with water from garden hose or even better Hot water.

 

[Bird]

Bird: Another thought maybe hitting the back of dish with water from garden hose or even better Hot water.

Maybe it got so much snow on there that the weight caused it to slide off. Actually, the official temperature is 32, but my thermometer in the breezeway shows 36 and, while it's still snowing pretty heavily, the snow is melting off the trees pretty fast and I'm sure it melted off the satellite dish, too, so we've got our reception back now.

 

[EddieWalker]

Hope this the last of TX cold weather.

Last year we had snow in April. Big, fat snow flakes that didn't stick, but were fun to watch coming down.

Eddie

 

[Western]

Well we have broke the 10" mark,,,hmmmm??? Pulled eleven folks out of the ditch today, got ran off of the road by a lady who could only say "NO savvy"" and took off. Off the road I went along with 30 feet of bob wire fence by the time I got out.

I was livid to say the least. Not at the damage, but how it happened. I guess it was better than a collision but at least she would have "stuck" around.

30 miles = 5 hours on the country roads.

 

[Bird]

Pulled eleven folks out of the ditch today

So you and Jim have been out being good Samaritans, while I didn't even get either of our vehicles out of the garage all day. We may have had as much as 10" of snow but I haven't tried to measure it. It was snowing before daylight this morning and still snowing when it got dark tonight with no breaks in the downfall.

 

[2manyrocks]

Snowing in Texas.... reminds me of a few political jokes I can't tell here.

 

[jinman]

Western, it sounds like you had a very frustrating day of helping others and getting nothing but trouble in return. After the last time we had a snow and I cleared the road, I decided that helping people was a exercise in frustration. Today, I couldn't even see where I was driving from all the snow in my face. I needed goggles or a face shield. I was afraid that somebody would come up behind me and I wouldn't see them. I decided that if I was going to do anymore to the road, it would have to be after the snow stops. The fact that I couldn't see my instrument panel or side panels had a lot to do with it. I had a hand broom with me and had to keep sweepin' things off to keep the falling snow from burying me. I got out of the seat long enough to hook up a chain from my neighbor's truck, and by the time I came back to the seat it was covered in 1/2" of snow. My wife called me a snowman by the time I got back home. Without a cab, it was just too hard to be driving up and down the county road waitin' for somebody to sneak up on me while I wasn't looking. We've had close to a foot of snow here and it's still coming down slowly. Tomorrow is another day.

 

[Egon]

I got out of the seat long enough to hook up a chain from my neighbor's truck, and by the time I came back to the seat it was covered in 1/2" of snow.

Isn't it invigorating sitting in a puddle of water!