In Texas,if you are talking winter,then 1899 is the benchmark, though other great outbreaks occurred in the 80s but not with back to back heavy snow and ice events. In Texas with hurricanes. 1900 and Carla are arguably the benchmarks, Winter wise, this is in that ballpark
There was ice on our palmtree in Houston this morning.
Its the winter apocalypse, we are all going to die, or not.
“The Erf hazza fevah”
I remember the ‘89 freeze. Driving to work was bad. The roads were all ice.
Yep. Pretty Cold here and getting colder by the day. I was here in 1989 also. Originally from Miami FL so I was not used to anything below 50-60 degrees.
Back in the fall and winter of 1976-77, we had a similar cold snap come through. It was used as proof we were entering THE NEW ICE AGE!
I could use some global warming right now.
Hope the pipelines transporting natural gas don’t freeze.
Could be some frenzied days in the natural gas market.
See, climate change is here.
We only have 30 seconds left...
My only son was born during the blizzard of 93.
I’m a Weatherbell follower. Joe is one of the most outspoken weather forecasters in the business. His clients are mostly in the Energy Sector. If Joe says single digits are likely then, they are likely. No forecaster is correct all the time. The dynamics of our atmosphere are incredibly complex but, he’s correct far more often than the GFS and Euro Models the average weather guesser on your nightly news rely upon.
This can easily be fixed. They just need to start feeding all those cattle Pork and beans. Greenhouse gas will save us all.
We owned a rental house in a suburb, Jersey Village, and were living in Canada.
The real trouble started when it thawed out.
I got a phone call from a screaming tenant, an undecipherable mix of Mexican, Spanish, and English. Evidently the ceilings in every room had collapsed along with a large quantity of loose attic insulation.
I had not known it, but building codes allowed plumbing to be run in the attic rather than below grade. It all burst, and wet drywall doesn’t work well with waterlogged insulation.
Luckily my Brother in law was in the construction business, and he knew plumbers who had the pipes fixed in 3 days, and the drywall fixed in a week.
I heard some people had to wait months.
The problem along the Gulf Coast is that a lot of the water pipes are not insulated and run across the attic.
I remember it well. I lived in The Woodlands. The pipes in my tract home froze in the attic and I had to go up there with a hair dryer to thaw them. My first child was two months old and my in-laws were visiting to make it more memorable.
The Midwest is colder than Nancy Pelosi’s breast.
I was there in 1989 and if I recall correctly it was 15 degrees that morning.
-1 for a low Monday in the Dallas area. Crazy.
For those in North TX this week will be the time to start campfires and let the flames freeze so you break them off and grind them up in to chili powder.