Re: Today\'s surprise
As Bird said, that's what we are more likely to get than all that white "stuff". About 2 years ago, a storm like like shut Dallas down for 1-1/2 days. Traffic was backed up for 20 miles trying to get through. I was stuck in the middle of it in a F350 dually with mud tires and I COULD move but had no place to go because of all the cars and trucks that had spun out and blocked the overpasses. What a nightmare.
My wife was stuck in the house because a tree had come down and blocked the drive right at the gate. She said the noise of breaking and falling limbs kept her awake all night. Bless her, she had it nearly all cleared up before I got home. When it gets as bad as that, we usually lose power too, not for more than a couple of days though.
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue"> If we were forced to stay home everytime it snowed a foot of snow, we'd never get anything done </font> )</font>
All I can say is that you've never seen Texans drive in a little snow and ice. I lived in Dallas for 13 years and the slightest bit of frozen precipitation in the morning and I'd either get in to work before anyone else hit the road or I'd stay home until it melted. I was brought up driving in that stuff but their attitude is, "I did 70 mph on this road yesterday and, darn it, I'm going to do 70 on it today". It's like bumper cars at the fair. It gets really, really dangerous.
