This sounds like the start of one of the stories where the person ends up dying from hypothermia and relatives go on the news blaming the city.
I sleep in a sweatshirt and 3 layers of blankets. I also always make sure to wear socks. It sucks, but it sure beats going to my girlfriend's place where she keeps it at 78+ degrees in the winter lol.
I think Chicago is a bad example because they know how to prepare the roads properly. They are really good about getting trucks out there to salt and sand and whatever else Yankee magic they perform. Granted, you still need to know how to drive in it. We were in Seattle around Thanksgiving and they had a big freaking snow storm. While that is "north", Seattle is a city that definitely does NOT know how to handle that kind of weather. It made me realize how well other cities do prepare for and handle the icy weather.
Well, that's your own fault so don't complain about your house being cold (or others who are sitting in heated rooms/offices). I assume you can afford at least a portable heater considering you own a BMW.
She's a 3 month old Brittany. Great dog. Very eager to please and learn. She seemed to like the snow.
A street festival erupted in the wee hours of the night just a stone's throw from my front door... words can't describe the awesome: http://www.kxan.com/dpp/weather/snow-leads-to-street-party-at-ut
I'm not saying it is my fault, I'm just saying don't assume all of us in Houston are p*****s because we freak out when it gets below 55 degrees outside. Don't complain about your weather being below freezing when you have layers of coats on, gloves, hats, etc, and sitting at home with your heater on. It's completely different argument. I've been to Denver, Chicago, New York, and Toronto all in the winter time. It's really not that bad. I mean people there have remote access to their cars parked in their garages to where they can pre-heat it and not have to wait for the car to warm up. You're basically never outside. And if you are, you're completely bundled up. Sunday is going to be 66 degrees here again. I have no reason to fix my heater for a few cold fronts that come through.
How do you handle taking showers in a house when the inside temp is 40 degrees or colder? In my old place my furnace went out when the temps were in the 20's and couldn't get it fixed for a day. Even sitting on the toilet was pretty uncomfortable.
I wish I had remote access to my car and a heated garage. I gotta shovel my driveway when it snows. That said it does seem like a freak out right now in TX. To be fair its a freakout here in MN when the temp gets to the upper 90's. If it makes you feel better I call my neighbors p*****s when they are acting like they are dying of heat stroke while I am out mowing the lawn.
I get hot water just fine, so showers really aren't an issue. Plus the steam really makes the bathroom comfortable afterwards. I just need to make sure that I dry myself off thoroughly before stepping out of the bathroom. You guys are really blowing this out of proportion. It's about 28 degrees outside right not but my thermostat currently reads 54. Don't ask me what's generating the heat and/or keeping it inside the house, but this temperature feels perfectly fine to me.
It's not a big deal and it was nothing personal. I've been really annoyed by the "out-of-towners" in the BBS recently. I just never found a valid reason to brag about weather in your current city, unless of course you live in Hawaii where it's always in the 70s and 80s. That being said, I need to go enjoy this "snow-day" off.
His comment had a smilie after it. Is was definitely in jest. So no one who has access to a heater or air conditioner should ever complain about the cold/heat? The same argument you make about people essentially being inside all of the time when it is cold can be made when it is hot.
Any Fort Bend residents make their way to the Fort Bend toll road yet? Is it open? Chron.com says the toll road authority closed the system down until Saturday but they just mentioned the Beltway, Westpark and Hardy in the article. Of course I plan to wait until mid afternoon when the temps get warmer to drive it.
No, but I am about to find out in like 20 min. I live right next to it and we got virtually no precipitation. That's at the end of the tollroad though, not sure about the rest of it.
Took me longer than usual, but I got to work w/o incident. Did slide once leaving my neighborhood, but the drive is mostly not elevated. Most everything is melting now that the sun is out...
I'm probably not going outside my neighborhood today, but this seems silly. Looking out my window, the roads look just fine. The Mo City YMCA is already back open. May go in to workout today instead of tomorrow. Wonder if they closed the Fort Bend Toll Road just because the other ones are closed?
Sad that snow god did not grace us with his tears but the ice goddess did grace us with her wrath! What a let down. I went outside and saw that our truck is covered in ice. I'll probably go to the gym this afternoon since the drive is like less than 5 min.
They had a number of accidents on the Fort Bend Toll road early this morning before they shut it down. It has several long stretches of elevated road and ramps and I'm sure it was all iced over.
