Thought I'd lost it when I saw a blizzard alert on my phone this morning, they weren't joking though.
Amazing, how long has it been since it really snowed 3-4 inches in Houston? Not freeze sporadic snow, but like this, decades?
I live outside of Baton Rouge. I got drunk last night and slept in. I woke up at 11 AM and it was extremely disorienting. There is a lot of snow on the ground for sure.
COH is saying DON'T drip your faucets as they will wreck the water pressure. Instead, they say keep your cabinet doors open. Obviously, wrap your pipes. Houston Public Works warns residents to not drip faucets I'm electing to run my dishwasher and washing machine on delay to run at like 2am and 5am.
That's great. I know we have a pretty hard freeze tonight, but I'm hoping this event is just sort of a fun snow day overall without a bunch of damaging freezing.
This is the best you could ask for from an artic blast. Snow but not a blizzard condition. cold but but not cold where it's below 10F and everything just frozen over. Also this blast won't last long over 3-4 days compare to 2021.
Parts of Houston may get down into mid to high teens tonight, which can hurt pipes, but I'm hoping everybody is prepared at this point. I think it got single digits for a bit in the Woodlands in 2021, but it may have been 10 or 11 degrees.
The issue in 2021 wasn't just the low cold, which I think hit 9 degrees. The issue was that it didn't get above freezing for like 3+ days. That was when pipes started bursting. This freeze is nothing like that one, and much prettier.
