Posted on 02/20/2021 4:09:55 PM PST by BenLurkin
Since Sunday, Texas weathered a fierce storm that left cities without power, water and warmth for millions of people who aren’t used to this kind of cold.
Amid the tales of people struggling to survive, a few stories of hope showed that Texas hospitality is the real deal.
Timmons, who lives three hours away in Houston, said she makes weekly trips to Austin because the delivery market is better there. The 32-year-old picked up one last delivery on Sunday as the snow picked up, thinking she would have time to make it home.
She struggled to drive into the hilly neighborhood at midday to deliver the groceries, which were already a day late and included steaks for the couple’s planned Valentine’s Day dinner.
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The private country club neighborhoods here in the Mts. of NC have marked sand stations along their steeper roads.
Yeah, it’s the riff-raft from the North trying to turn Texas blue, doing the spin-outs! They think they can drive anyway they want.. lol PS..I was born in the North. I can say anything I want!
Yep!
Northerners can drive in the snow in the north. It is very different in the south. The ground in the north is already cold. The ground in the south is warn, The snow melts on the warm ground and turns to ice. The northerners don't know that.
Those northerns should just go back up north and take their liberal views and their ignorance out of the south.
You should take your own advise and take your own ignorance and shove it.
I think its people from the west and south of texas turning it blue.
They brace for it no matter what. The news always tries to scare everyone even its an expected light dusting.
Less than a foot is just a nuisance.
Some one needs to tell them that they should just drive slowly in the snow.
That was essential before ABS and Chassis Control computers. With these, you can jam on the brakes, and steer toward where you want to go.
It still takes skill to recognize and then slow down for ice, deal with drifts, avoid troublesome conditions, etc.
That’s the difference. You have snow on many occasions up north.
Texas may get some snow once every couple of years except for
maybe the panhandle area.
“I don’t mean this to be rude but why does it seem that Texans can’t drive in the snow?”
When the Alaska Pipeline was going strong, a lot of Texans moved up ... oil. We learned to not get on the roads the morning of the first big snow because the Texans made the roads impassable. They were all over the place — stuck in the road, stuck off the road, skidding on the road.
I actually admired their confidence charging forward no matter how bad the weather.
Sweet story......still good people out there.
Wow. An unexpected happy story.
9 months later..........
Is looser the opposite of tighter?
Not my type, but maybe yours!
Dear Penthouse Forum:.......
Snow isn’t the big problem, it’s the ICE; especially black ice.
😎👍
The Weather Channel is a joke and has been for many years.
She's been indoors for 5 days.
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