Storm of the Century... is hitting Houston

[campinfool]

My wife hates the smell of heat.

Ahh, yes. A gas furnace that's not used very often will put off an annoying odor for a while. But it beats the hell out of being cold. My wife hates being cold.

I had a house in Houston for 13 years. It had a brick fireplace, pegged hardwood floors, and marble floors in the bathrooms, kitchen and dining room(bad idea) it's hard as hell to keep clean. It's nice to have some log's... just in case.

Of course, I was there in the early 90's when a cold front came in, it was 4 degrees with a -25 wind chill. Experience is a great teacher.

Know the shit that was coming... is what got my ass out of Houston the same day as I posted this thread. Loaded up the 10,000 pound monster when it was 50 degrees and drizzling, knowing that it was going to get a hell of a lot uglier in about 12 hours when the Ice Storm was going to hit.

Drove my ass as fast as could through San Antonio and up and over the Hill Country and to Junction, TX., where I made it late at night.

I woke up in the morning to my vehicles looking like they were stuck in an ice cube, and the wind chill at -1 zero. Nothing like trying to open the doors to your vehicle when they're frozen shut inside an ice cube.

The DPS had warnings all over the TV, asking people not to drive for a couple of days due to the ice.

Fuck that! I wasn't going to get my ass stuck in that shit hole (Junction,TX.) for three more days, more pending ice and snow forcasted for the next 3 days on I-20.

The first 200 miles on I-20 were to say the least... very interesting and a slow go. Nice wind chill of about 5 degrees when you went out to pump gas only to find out that the pumps were frozen solid with ice.

Anyway... the sun came out and made it a decent ride all the way to Las Cruses, NM., where I'm making this post now. Unfortunately, I think the cold is chasing my ass, since it's forcasted to be the coldest day of the year here tomorrow with snow.

The moral of the story is... if you live in the US and you're not living in Florida, you may need a fucking fire place!

Dude I don't think has ever gotten to 4 degrees ever in Houston. Maybe west Texas gets that cold as a low, but Houston, give me a break. And I still want to know what vehicle you are hauling 10K pounds with. I want to know make/ model, specs, and fuel economy.

[PrimeX]

I've lived in/around H-Town all my life, and it's never hit single digits that I remember. In the mid to late 80s we had a nice ice storm with temps in the teens, but that's the coldest conditions I can ever remember.

Edit:

The coldest temperature ever recorded in Houston was 5 °F (−15 °C) on January 23, 1940

Link.

This is why 30 degrees makes us look like cold weather tards. We don't understand how to drive on the ice, therefore schools/jobs close. We also don't put forth funding for cold weather machinery like sand truck things and laser beams that unfreeze the buildings that turn into robots.

Atleast we don't all die when temps reach triple digits though. Some of us seriously dig that shit.

I hate below 60 very much and thank you.

[420]

My bad... I was off by 3 degrees, silly me.

It was 7 degrees in December 1989... which is still holds the record fro the Coldest month in the recoded history of Houston

I've lived in/around H-Town all my life, and it's never hit single digits that I remember.

It looks like it did twice.


Carry on