****. I'm about to go to class. Have to drive from Galleria to UH Main. Hopefully it doesn't get too bad until I get home by 1:30.
I'm supposed to be coming home on Friday after working in Vegas for two weeks. The plane we are on is supposed to come from Chicago. Its an afternoon Friday flight to Houston, so I'm thinking everything should be ok, but maybe delayed? I guess I'll have to wait it out.
HISD cancels school for tomorrow, Alief as well. http://blogs.chron.com/schoolzone/2011/02/houston_isd_cancels_school_fri.html
If Dr. K kept us open for Ike, we will be here no matter what. There's also a lot of northerners who work on campus, and if they stay home they can't tell everyone who is not used to the cold that "this is nothing" a hundred or so times.
My favorite part is that by the time night classes roll around it will be dark, icy, sleeting and the power is going out at the lights around UH. Their response? "DRIVE CAREFULLY LOL!"
lol... I was just chatting with a friend who has lived all over the country, and she said she was blown away by how big a deal this whole winter blast thing is. She even went as far as to say "Texans are p*****s, for real". What she fails to understand is that we aren't prepared with snow tires, snow plows, salt trucks, etc. to deal with this kind of thing. Without those same accommodations up north, they'd be screwed too. And it's not like they don't freak out when the heat hits triple digits for a few days. Here that's called summer.
Yeah, remind her how tough those snow people are when the news is regaling us with tails of Americans in the north suffering immensely from a "heat wave" that is producing temps in the 90s.
Will sleet mess up my car? I was gonna go out tonight but if my car is gonna get pelted then screw that.
I was in Chicago one June. The news there kept talking about the "heat wave" they were experiencing. It was in the high-80's. My wife and I were there for a long weekend, leaving 100's behind in Austin. We brought long sleeve shirts for the nights there.
This joke got old about three day ago. U are making me pray for an earthquake, mudslide, wildfire, tsunami.
New NWS Discussion. The air continues to be too dry. The drive home should be fine. Hopefully this dry air will saturate soon enough for the snow to accumulate tonight. Area forecast discussion National Weather Service Houston/Galveston Texas 1031 am CST Thursday Feb 3 2011 Discussion... acars soundings for kiah/khou suggest snow or sleet as the precipitation type for the Houston area with a couple of small warm layers showing up. We also received a radiosonde observation for cll which shows the entire profile below -4c clearly showing snow as the type. However...soundings show a lot of dry air through the atmosphere. Latest model guidance suggests that it will take a long time for saturation to occur...with very little precipitation reaching the ground today and only light precipitation this evening. Current thinking is that the accumulations currently forecast look good and could be a bit generous. However...the one thing differentiating this event compared to the last few is that temperatures will be much lower and elevated roadways are already below freezing. Even if only small accumulations occur...the roads are very likely to become icy and hazardous especially late tonight/Friday morning. Will keep the warning in tact. For first period...have kept probability of precipitation on the low side and also raised maximum temperatures slightly based on current trends.
LOL, that bugs me to no end. We have some northerners here at work and you can't even mention that it's cold outside without them starting one of their "aw, this is NOTHING!!!1" rants. Yes, we know it snows more in Boston than it does in Houston because you've mentioned it 5 times in the last hour. WE GOT IT. That doesn't make it any warmer outside.
it gets damn hot in ny during the summer and everyone says to me that i should be used to it being from texas. um, no, hot is hot, cold is cold, regardless of where you are from.
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