Snowing in texas on xmas eve

[drventure]

Been a long time since I've had a white Christmas. Maybe it'll keep going into tomorrow!

[drventure]

Ok, Amend. Snowing in Dallas ft worth, tx

Are you in houston?

[Malenko]

it snowed in San Antonio (where PBJ is) a few years ago before Valentines day, I remember because I proposed the next day in Austin

[drventure]

Here's the proof. A genuine abominably hairy texas snowman 

Although this is more like a snowwoman. My wife and daughter decided to add eyelashes 

[Hoopz]

Here's the proof. A genuine abominably hairy texas snowman 

Although this is more like a snowwoman. My wife and daughter decided to add eyelashes 

Move the snowballs and fix the problem.   

[ChadTower]

Whoa.  It's hard work to make a snowman that big out of 2" of snow.

[drventure]

Well, to be fair, there's a lot of "lawn and leaf" in that snowman 

[drventure]

Did a search of my hard drives to find the pics... discovered I've got a copy of the Informer song.
Time to reconsider my direction in life./quote]

 

Caused a fellow BYOACer to reevaluate their life goals on Christmas eve..... Priceless... 

Now. Off to wrap presents and make cookies for Santa!

[Ginsu Victim]

---fudgesicle--- a white Christmas! The OKcoin-op forum has been discussing how our day went
http://forum.okcoin-op.com/index.php?topic=3941.0

[Ginsu Victim]

OK Coin Op?  What the heck do you guys talk about?  Kamas vending and Cactus Jack's?  

Several collectors with decent collections, not to mention the guys in Lawton that lost everything in the fire in August that are rebuilding even bigger than ever.

I say electricity, btw.

"formula firebird with a 6 speed."

Yeah, the 80's ended like 40 years ago kthx.

Texas guy, actually.

[Benevolance]

Nice snow golem!

I think Texas got more snow this winter than Vancouver did. Good thing we're hosting the winter Olympics in two months. 

[drventure]

Nice snow golem!

 

[Kevin Mullins]

"formula firebird with a 6 speed."

Yeah, the 80's ended like 40 years ago kthx.

Texas guy, actually.

Doh !!   

[Ginsu Victim]

No, he's actually a guy IN Texas.

Oh, and I was born and raised in Texas, but call myself an Okie now. NO APOLOGY NEEDED!

[Kevin Mullins]

Kevin, I really didn't want to beat the forum over the head with this, but Texans that have moved to Oklahoma and do not continually apologize for it are beyond contempt. 

Yeah, it was not meant in any offense to you or camarolt1guy or anything, just thought the "from Texas" / "from Oklahoma" insinuating type comment was ironic.
Camarolt1guy is actually a very cool fella.

My father actually lives in Texas and I have plenty of family in Texas, so I could really care less either way.
My mother and step-father live here in Oklahoma. (next door actually)
I'm not from anywhere in particular. 

BTW - this is what I saw MOST of Christmas Eve.

[Kevin Mullins]

All that being said - good lord, dare I ask how many people died on I-35 over the holiday?

Knowing the amount of friggin' idiots I saw just on the 2 mile stretch of I-40 I got stuck on for hours.... I'd hate to know.
Those pics I took with the traffic was a two-lane road with an overpass dead ahead of us, wtf were they all thinking?!? (in other words they all had to merge back in anyways)
 
That van about went rolling down the hillside when he swerved right after the white truck ahead of me nudged out in front of the traffic (i.e. the van) that kept trying to come up the shoulder of the road. And then that same white truck and the blue truck chained together to help get the van back on the road before he lost it alltogether. They were having a devil of a time, nearly cutting and swerving across both lanes.... all the while traffic kept trying to come up the shoulder right up in their way. They would literally come up around me and pull in front of me..... the space I was giving them to pull the van up.
One of numerous stupid stunts I saw in that short stretch of road.
All while I just sat there, not moving an inch.

[ChadTower]

I could never figure out why those people didn't buy cars better suited to the bad weather.

Not sure about out there but here it's the people in the SUVs that get killed.  People in sedans generally know how to drive in the snow and are fine here.  It's the idiot in a Cherokee who thinks 4wd means you can still go 65 in a snowstorm that ends up rolling 6 times and taking 4 other cars with her.

Really, driving in the snow is easy no matter what you are driving, if you use common sense.  Slow the hell down.  No sudden turns or stops.  Turn the wheel into a skid if you start to fishtail.  Don't tailgate people.  After a while that stuff becomes so instinctive when the ground is white that it's hard to intentionally donut in a parking lot.

[Ginsu Victim]

It's the idiot in a Cherokee who thinks 4wd means you can still go 65 in a snowstorm that ends up rolling 6 times and taking 4 other cars with her.

I had to highlight the part that made me laugh.

Really, driving in the snow is easy no matter what you are driving, if you use common sense.

The problem here was that we had a 2" sheet of ice under the snow.

[ChadTower]

The problem here was that we had a 2" sheet of ice under the snow.

It's almost always like that.  You pretty much have to assume there is ice under the snow.  Some days are worse than others, of course, but on those days you can see it before you even get in the car.  If it's 20 degrees out there is ice on the road every time.  If it's 40, probably not.

[Ginsu Victim]

The real problem in my area is these people drive like idiots on a normal day. Change the weather and suddenly they are even dumber than ever.

I agree with the sentiment of not being scared of driving, it's being scared of the opposite sex driving.

[ChadTower]

The real problem in my area is these people drive like idiots on a normal day.

Truth.  The people here who get into most of the snowy accidents drive like maniacs in dry weather.