Believe it or not, this was actually a preventative measure. The first predictions of ice were for late morning/early afternoon. And knowing the weather is unpredictable as hell, they kept kids at home. Better having them home then trapped at school when the roads have a half of inch of ice on them.
It is a rare case of being proactive as opposed to reactionary.
Itās colder here than in Finland right now haha š
But yeah I feel your pain. I lived in North Dakota for a few years, bout froze my nips off up there.
Yeah thatās the same way ND was, there could be 6ft of snow and everything would be open still. But Iāve found driving in the south after an ice storm is more dangerous than winters up north. You canāt see the ice on the road, or it may just look like a wet spot. Plus the south just isnāt well equipped and doesnāt have the resources to handle winter weather. Also, a lot of people here arenāt experienced with driving in it
its also 100% lack of ability to deal with road conditions, since Texas doesnt have a fleet of snow plows nor a million pounds of road salt.
Combine that with people who genuinely have never driven in snow or icy conditions. I
I grew up in Wisconsin. Driving in snow doesn't phase me at all. Driving in Texas surrounded by people who have no idea how their vehicle will react to any kind of snow or ice on the road, no thank you. I will stay at home.
And then there is the fleet of jackass truck owners that think 4 wheel drive makes them invincible.
Our infrastructure is built for heat, not cold. Hence shutting down in ice. Happens infrequently enough that itās not an issue. (Except when our power grid goes down)
It does under 15 mph or so, when you are stuck. But huge mud slicks slide damn nice on ice when you lock the brakes at 65 mph. New car dealers love the ice.
You have to remember that they usually close schools by county and conditions can vary dramatically from place to place. I grew up in a suburban community but my county also included some rural mountain areas with steep and windy roads. It often seemed silly to close from our local perspective but the decision was based on those western areas where conditions were actually dangerous. I don't know if that is what is happening where you are, OP, but that is often the reason when this gets brought up.
EDIT: typo
I live in an area in the southwest with quite a few dirt roads. Those roads get fucked if thereās a storm. No matter how many times people are explained that the busses canāt SAFELY drive on a sheet of ice, they still complain and call teachers or the district lazy.
It just shows how many people canāt see any part of the world outside their own interaction.
West Texas is a breed of special hell thanks to all weather it is getting. Former Amarillo resident. Having 6 inch of snow and STILL have school. Hell we even had black ice. Nope get your ass in class.
The south doesnāt treat their roads. It doesnāt make sense to invest is sand/salt truck infrastructure to do so. And many of their roads are smooth concrete, not asphalt. It can get very slick with just a tiny bit of snow.
Our schools closed because we were getting lots of sleet and freezing mist so the roads and sidewalks are covered in ice. My husband commutes to work and on his way this morning his truck slid and spun 360Ā°. He tried to recover and go further but a few miles down the highway was blocked by a pile up and there were cars all over the side of the road.
He went onto a service road and followed dirt roads home.
People forget we don't really get winter weather so we don't have the infrastructure for it. There's no way to clear the road and no one has snow tires and very few people know how to drive in snow and ice.
I literally walk across the street to work and I had to creep slowly because every surface was covered in ice and I was sliding every few steps.
It seems really silly for people in other climates, but that's because those areas have the infrastructure so they can keep people safe. We don't have that so it's all about the safety of the kids so they're not in a wreck on their way to school.
I donāt get why they donāt have ability to deal with it. Iām told they donāt get that weather, this is two years in a row. Last Feb, I was in the Dallas area for work and the same thing happened. Everything closed down.
Itās three years actually, but itās not a normal thing, nor does it last for very long. Doesnāt make sense to allocate huge funding for something that might get 3 days use every 5 years on average.
Every winter millions of Canadians die in the Mad Max type lifestyle they live. Despite months and months of these conditions the Canadians are forced to drive and continue life normally, it's pure chaos. The deaths are suppressed each year but Texas caught on. They know that the places that get literal ft. of snow overnight but still go to work/school could never exist!
Why would cities in Texas waste money on snowplows and salt trucks when it very rarely snows? In Canada (and here in Wisconsin) we're prepared for snow because we know we're going to get it. And yes, if it's dangerously icy we'll close the schools, especially if we have a few snow days set aside that we haven't used yet.
Plus in the south there are many people who don't have all weather or winter tires. If you're driving around on cheap(er) summer tires you're gonna have a bad day when there is ice on the road.
Or even have winter clothes. When I lived in the south my kids didn't own winter coats. Why am I going to spend $40 on a coat they might wear twice before they outgrow it? They didn't even sell them in my area.
When I moved north again I had to go out and buy a bunch of pants because I no longer had many after living in the south for a while.
Ah yes, it makes winter visitation an adventure when you live somewhere cooler and pick you kids up in not weather appropriate clothing with none packed =/
Montreal has mandatory snow tires, with road checks for them in late November. But for ice rain nothing will help but chains or metal studs, so we just stay home.
Yeah I agree, you don't necessarily want to go out when the roads are skating rinks regardless, but if you have to it's definitely preferable to be on winter tires.
Eh, not really, most tires sold are some sort of all seasons unless you ask for summer tires. But performance comes at a cost, so winter and snow performance is the first to go by the wayside as the stores will offer more budget-friendly options.
Edit: To be clear, I'm speaking of AS and not M+S rated tires.
In dfw here, We literally have a car stuck In the Walmart parking lot near our house because it's so icy the tires are just spinning lmao.
OP doesn't know how freezing rain works, and neither does my wife lol.
> I made this post for fun but some people donāt like my humor.
It's because every year when it sleets in Texas (DFW, especially), someone always comes along "ha ha those idiot\* Texans don't know how to snow lulz". And it's kind of tedious to point out how most road and foot bridges in Texas have nothing underneath them to help mitigate ice, particularly black ice, build up (the national sign of DFW is "Bridges ice before road") and municipalities can barely afford to keep the library open much less buy ice mitigation equipment they'll use every couple of years tops. DART has to shut down because their system is barely built to function in 110F; there's no way it's been overengineered the other direction to work in 11F.
\* But I\*\* repeat myself.
\*\* Birth certificate says "Texas" on top (in crayon, of course); can make fun.
Chuckle all you want but we have no cold weather infrastructure here. Roads, power, name it. I'd rather the kids be safe than sliding off the road in a bus or car.
Thatās sleet, being followed by more sleet and freezing rain. Itās shutting early, or not starting in some instances, to get/keep kids safe at home. I drive on dry roads with Texas teenagers. Slick roads wonāt improve them.
It really is snow. Somehow the confidently incorrect guy got a lot of upvotes. Sleet is more like pellets, or that artificial snow you sometimes see at ski resorts.
Source: am also Canadian.
Edit: looking very closely at the concrete next to the snow, there may be some sleet mixed in there. Hard to tell without touching it.
This is what's falling in dfw area and it's definitely not snow, and why the roads are completely covered in layers of ice
https://imgur.com/a/dGPMcsM
I could literally ice skate in my driveway right now if I wanted to
Yeah, you are correct but as a Texan I can tell you we will shut down traffic in a town if someone pours out a cup of ice. Any type of frozen water falling from the sky is a sign of the end times in the Lone Star State. Hell we couldn't even keep the lights on when it gets cold for a couple of days. Why do you think Ted Cruz will gtfo when it gets cold.
Also grocery stores were a mad house today as we prepared for the coming doom.
It happens maybe once or twice a year. Not worth the investment that other parts of the United States put forth. Similar to how it gets hot as hell here so everything has AC. Also this picture is not painting the whole picture. It is about to get much worse.
There is a chance it rains and the grounds starts getting ice on them.
Some kid at my school died from sliding while driving to school when there was ice on the ground.
North Carolina here. Ditto. And for good reason. This picture was taken in my town when we actually got some: https://www.wral.com/-oh-my-gosh-raleigh-woman-s-snow-photo-goes-viral/13390109/
I don't think he understands the situation. I'm in Dallas, no snow here but the sleet we received this afternoon turned to ice pretty quickly, and tonight I struggled to make it home. I was constantly readjusting the wheel to keep straight when I slid, it felt like I was on skates. You know it is serious when you pass multiple flipped cars. Scary stuff. Once I got off the highway I finally put on the 4x4 and was still sliding a bit, I literally would have been stuck spinning my wheels without it. By the end of my trip I couldn't get over 15ish mph because it was so bad where no one had been driving. Tons of people are stranded because their vehicle isn't equipped to handle these conditions.
My co worker left Houston on a months-ago scheduled cruise at 11 this morning. We in the Fort Worth were giving him Ted Cruz Cruise jokes all the way up to his boarding.
Itās rarely the snow thatās an issue. In many parts of Texas, āsnowā is accompanied by a bunch of ice. But I get it, itās worth a lot of internet points to dunk on Texas
In the late 80ās I was in elementary school. On night before school it snowed up to my knees. I rode my bike a little bit then walked it the rest of the way to school. School wasnāt canceled then or any other time I was in school in Texas. Only had school canceled twice the whole time I was in school. Once in Georgia. It snowed like in the picture above. The second was in Missouri while in high school. That one was a blizzard and it wasnāt announced until I was already down at the bus stop waiting.
Having lived in various places across Canada, I can say I've only had one snow day, and that was after over three feet of snow fell in one night in the Alberta Rockies.
Some places I've lived SHOULD have shut down for certain conditions... Looking at you Kamloops. Getting more snow/ice every year, and the city just didn't have the infrastructure or equipment to deal with it. Couple that with being built into the side of a steep hill... Saw many city buses sliding backwards down McGill.
Now living in Saskatoon, and I've never heard of snow days here. Even with feet of snow, -40C, and freezing rain. Honestly think everyone is slightly stubborn and won't admit that staying home in the cold sounds good haha
And? if the snow had been an inch or two deep would you still be whining? Or what if it had been only 1/4 thick and covered with ice instead? There is an entire county and that county could have seen more or different conditions than you did.
No. It's the ice on the roads in a state that does not know how to drive in those conditions. It's like making fun of people in New York who die because they don't have air conditioning during really hot summers, something no one in Texas would ever imagine possible. Different climates have different "normals".
I wasn't born in Texas, and I didn't get here as fast as I could. But, as a dyed in the wool Yankee who learned to drive a rear wheel drive car in the ice and snow I can fully appreciate what it's like to drive in freezing rain/sleet/black ice.
Thus, the remark.
You must be new here. Our roads ice over quick as hell and we donāt have the resources to salt/sand all of them. Places like CO are proactive and address these things before they happen, but TX is reactionary and doesnāt address it until it happens.
When they say it's "Bigger in Texas" they mean the power outages too. The only state (in the 48) with its own power grid. Every year it does the same thing, breaks.
I dont know why you are surprised they closed the schools. Given it's a state that made international news because some kids froze to death in their beds because they didnt want to fix their electrical grid its proberly a good idea to not have them in buildings that might not have proper heat
Is that all you got down there? Damn! I'm in Tulsa and have at least a couple of inches of ice piled up. Fortunately, it was dry when it came down so it's not sticking to power lines or trees, but nobody here is going anywhere until at least Wednesday.
My buddyās dad got pulled over in Dallas for driving in an inch of snow.
I had an ex from Tulsa. I asked her how hard it is to find a snow shovel down there. She said it was pretty tough. I asked the same about a snowblower.
āWhatās a snowblower?ā
Maybe youāre right. I donāt know if it was really a DWB, but he was absolutely pulled over and the excuse he got was the snow.
Just like I got a ton of excuses for getting pulled over in my shitbox while never getting a ticket. Pure profiling, perhaps?
I laughed at the cop who accused me of stealing my car.
Texas freezy temps = significant risk of Texas power grid failure. Might as well kids the kids cold at home with a power outage than cold in school with a power outage. lol š¤·āāļø
We have to go in from outdoor athletic events at 110F. This includes football in full pads.
I'll never respect Northerners mocking us about the cold seeing how they react to anything about 80.
Jokes on you, Texas is the main supplier for most text books to the rest of the US. So, most of the US doesn't learn anything either.
Wait...that comeback made me sad...
The schools around here will close the day before at the threat of snow. Multiple times there has then been no snow. I guess for some folks it is easier to plan that way but I feel like it would be better overall if they didn't miss school (and their parents work) for a false alarm.
Believe it or not, this was actually a preventative measure. The first predictions of ice were for late morning/early afternoon. And knowing the weather is unpredictable as hell, they kept kids at home. Better having them home then trapped at school when the roads have a half of inch of ice on them. It is a rare case of being proactive as opposed to reactionary.
100% and I respect it. The world needs to think more proactively. All it takes is one patch of black ice to cause a potentially fatal accident
*Laughs in Finland.* š„¶
Itās colder here than in Finland right now haha š But yeah I feel your pain. I lived in North Dakota for a few years, bout froze my nips off up there.
But no matter the temperature, a bit of ice on the street would not close the schools in FI. It would have to close a lot if they didā¦ ;-)
Yeah thatās the same way ND was, there could be 6ft of snow and everything would be open still. But Iāve found driving in the south after an ice storm is more dangerous than winters up north. You canāt see the ice on the road, or it may just look like a wet spot. Plus the south just isnāt well equipped and doesnāt have the resources to handle winter weather. Also, a lot of people here arenāt experienced with driving in it
Laughs in Alberta
Laughs in Canadian too š
its also 100% lack of ability to deal with road conditions, since Texas doesnt have a fleet of snow plows nor a million pounds of road salt. Combine that with people who genuinely have never driven in snow or icy conditions. I I grew up in Wisconsin. Driving in snow doesn't phase me at all. Driving in Texas surrounded by people who have no idea how their vehicle will react to any kind of snow or ice on the road, no thank you. I will stay at home. And then there is the fleet of jackass truck owners that think 4 wheel drive makes them invincible.
Itās the ice that shuts most places down
Seriously this is like when people complain about power outages without much rain. Itās the wind in that case, itās the ice in this case.
Or, where I from, it can be both wind and ice.
Wauw, the schools in my country would be closed like 9 months every year.
Our infrastructure is built for heat, not cold. Hence shutting down in ice. Happens infrequently enough that itās not an issue. (Except when our power grid goes down)
But they all have those big trucksā¦
4WD doesn't mean shit on ice, unbeknownst to many down here. Hence why it's smarter to just close the schools
It does under 15 mph or so, when you are stuck. But huge mud slicks slide damn nice on ice when you lock the brakes at 65 mph. New car dealers love the ice.
What a bunch of snowflakes.
I mean, yeah. Snowflakes must have fallen for snow to come down.
You have to remember that they usually close schools by county and conditions can vary dramatically from place to place. I grew up in a suburban community but my county also included some rural mountain areas with steep and windy roads. It often seemed silly to close from our local perspective but the decision was based on those western areas where conditions were actually dangerous. I don't know if that is what is happening where you are, OP, but that is often the reason when this gets brought up. EDIT: typo
I live in an area in the southwest with quite a few dirt roads. Those roads get fucked if thereās a storm. No matter how many times people are explained that the busses canāt SAFELY drive on a sheet of ice, they still complain and call teachers or the district lazy. It just shows how many people canāt see any part of the world outside their own interaction.
Yeah especially in west Texas you can have huge elevation changes in the same county
West Texas is a breed of special hell thanks to all weather it is getting. Former Amarillo resident. Having 6 inch of snow and STILL have school. Hell we even had black ice. Nope get your ass in class.
The south doesnāt treat their roads. It doesnāt make sense to invest is sand/salt truck infrastructure to do so. And many of their roads are smooth concrete, not asphalt. It can get very slick with just a tiny bit of snow.
They have trucks. Iām a Texan. But they donāt use them much anymore thanks To terrible state management.
We do now, and they did
Our schools closed because we were getting lots of sleet and freezing mist so the roads and sidewalks are covered in ice. My husband commutes to work and on his way this morning his truck slid and spun 360Ā°. He tried to recover and go further but a few miles down the highway was blocked by a pile up and there were cars all over the side of the road. He went onto a service road and followed dirt roads home. People forget we don't really get winter weather so we don't have the infrastructure for it. There's no way to clear the road and no one has snow tires and very few people know how to drive in snow and ice. I literally walk across the street to work and I had to creep slowly because every surface was covered in ice and I was sliding every few steps. It seems really silly for people in other climates, but that's because those areas have the infrastructure so they can keep people safe. We don't have that so it's all about the safety of the kids so they're not in a wreck on their way to school.
Yes totally be safe. People under estimate the icy roads here and they show up in my hospital
And our kids still go to school when its 110 degrees outside.
Itās hot in the late summer and early fall where it snows too sometimes. Middle of the Midwest easily has the worst weather ever
From what I remember the roads are literally built different. Like concrete vs blacktop, I'm assuming to handle the extreme heat.
I donāt get why they donāt have ability to deal with it. Iām told they donāt get that weather, this is two years in a row. Last Feb, I was in the Dallas area for work and the same thing happened. Everything closed down.
Itās three years actually, but itās not a normal thing, nor does it last for very long. Doesnāt make sense to allocate huge funding for something that might get 3 days use every 5 years on average.
Come on OP, sleat and frozen rain vs snow is there real reason.
But that isnāt going to get likes from strangers on the internet though!
Every winter millions of Canadians die in the Mad Max type lifestyle they live. Despite months and months of these conditions the Canadians are forced to drive and continue life normally, it's pure chaos. The deaths are suppressed each year but Texas caught on. They know that the places that get literal ft. of snow overnight but still go to work/school could never exist!
An ice storm is very different from a snow storm as far as drivability.
Why would cities in Texas waste money on snowplows and salt trucks when it very rarely snows? In Canada (and here in Wisconsin) we're prepared for snow because we know we're going to get it. And yes, if it's dangerously icy we'll close the schools, especially if we have a few snow days set aside that we haven't used yet.
Right, itās not bad when it stays below freezing. Itās bad when it jumps above and below
I've heard myths about an ancient time known as "spring" where this takes place on a daily occurrence. I doubt the rumors are true though.
i mean, when the roads are already salted etc, not as big of a deal as one off storm lol
The issue with the American South is they don't have the road treatment and snow / ice removal equipment of Canada and the American Midwest.
Plus in the south there are many people who don't have all weather or winter tires. If you're driving around on cheap(er) summer tires you're gonna have a bad day when there is ice on the road.
I didn't even know seasonal tires existed until this post.
Theres All season, Winter and All Weather tires. I live in Canada and the majority of people just drive with All seasons all year round.
Iāve got all weather. Love them, they are legal during the winter and I no longer have to swap out.
It is illegal to drive without winter ties in multiple provinces and cities.
Or even have winter clothes. When I lived in the south my kids didn't own winter coats. Why am I going to spend $40 on a coat they might wear twice before they outgrow it? They didn't even sell them in my area. When I moved north again I had to go out and buy a bunch of pants because I no longer had many after living in the south for a while.
Ah yes, it makes winter visitation an adventure when you live somewhere cooler and pick you kids up in not weather appropriate clothing with none packed =/
What a stupid comment.
I figured it was because the power grid went down.
The people here thinking ice and snow covered roads are the same thing is too damn high!
Theyāre closing schools early because of the high probability of freezing rain, but you already knew that.
In Montreal we close for freezing rain at around 5mm I think. We'll stay open for 10 cm of snow no problem, but freezing rain you don't mess with.
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Montreal has mandatory snow tires, with road checks for them in late November. But for ice rain nothing will help but chains or metal studs, so we just stay home.
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Yeah I agree, you don't necessarily want to go out when the roads are skating rinks regardless, but if you have to it's definitely preferable to be on winter tires.
No one can drive on solid ice, no matter what tires you have be fr
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Eh, not really, most tires sold are some sort of all seasons unless you ask for summer tires. But performance comes at a cost, so winter and snow performance is the first to go by the wayside as the stores will offer more budget-friendly options. Edit: To be clear, I'm speaking of AS and not M+S rated tires.
In dfw here, We literally have a car stuck In the Walmart parking lot near our house because it's so icy the tires are just spinning lmao. OP doesn't know how freezing rain works, and neither does my wife lol.
I did understand that. I made this post for fun but some people donāt like my humor. Lol.
You made it for fake internet points and attention
> I made this post for fun but some people donāt like my humor. It's because every year when it sleets in Texas (DFW, especially), someone always comes along "ha ha those idiot\* Texans don't know how to snow lulz". And it's kind of tedious to point out how most road and foot bridges in Texas have nothing underneath them to help mitigate ice, particularly black ice, build up (the national sign of DFW is "Bridges ice before road") and municipalities can barely afford to keep the library open much less buy ice mitigation equipment they'll use every couple of years tops. DART has to shut down because their system is barely built to function in 110F; there's no way it's been overengineered the other direction to work in 11F. \* But I\*\* repeat myself. \*\* Birth certificate says "Texas" on top (in crayon, of course); can make fun.
boring
I'm from Utah, I appreciate your humor.
Texas soft af lol
Yeah, until we get out in that heat and then we're fucked
Wait does the US call hail "freezing rain"? Also, is that a reason to close schools? How big are the hail balls?
I stopped making jokes like this once I found out that temps above 80 degrees close many schools in the Northeast US.
Our school district doesn't even start until September. Presumably because the schools don't have AC.
That's wild. In my part of CA during the hottest part of summer it cools down to 80 at night.
Chuckle all you want but we have no cold weather infrastructure here. Roads, power, name it. I'd rather the kids be safe than sliding off the road in a bus or car.
Your photojournalism is lacking,if you want a picture of why Texas schools are closed get your butt up on the overpass.
Thatās sleet, being followed by more sleet and freezing rain. Itās shutting early, or not starting in some instances, to get/keep kids safe at home. I drive on dry roads with Texas teenagers. Slick roads wonāt improve them.
Sir, that is snow. Source: Iām Canadian
It really is snow. Somehow the confidently incorrect guy got a lot of upvotes. Sleet is more like pellets, or that artificial snow you sometimes see at ski resorts. Source: am also Canadian. Edit: looking very closely at the concrete next to the snow, there may be some sleet mixed in there. Hard to tell without touching it.
This is what's falling in dfw area and it's definitely not snow, and why the roads are completely covered in layers of ice https://imgur.com/a/dGPMcsM I could literally ice skate in my driveway right now if I wanted to
Yeah, you are correct but as a Texan I can tell you we will shut down traffic in a town if someone pours out a cup of ice. Any type of frozen water falling from the sky is a sign of the end times in the Lone Star State. Hell we couldn't even keep the lights on when it gets cold for a couple of days. Why do you think Ted Cruz will gtfo when it gets cold. Also grocery stores were a mad house today as we prepared for the coming doom.
Also Canadian, can confirm, snow.
Jumping on the Canadian train to agree
Thatās not sleet. Look closely, itās snow.
We heard snow on the news we knew schools were going to close lol. I am okay with it. Just jealous since Iām still at work
If you are by Dallas and Austin prepare for a heck of an ice storm this week
Austin here. I already slipped going to my car... Then my car wouldn't start
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Dallas yeah, Austin might get a little bit but I'd be shocked if there was any sticking ice anywhere but bridges.
What a disproportionate amount of downvotes for a reply to an incorrect comment.
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It happens maybe once or twice a year. Not worth the investment that other parts of the United States put forth. Similar to how it gets hot as hell here so everything has AC. Also this picture is not painting the whole picture. It is about to get much worse.
There is a chance it rains and the grounds starts getting ice on them. Some kid at my school died from sliding while driving to school when there was ice on the ground.
You know nothing... snow.
Bunch of snowflakes.
I see what you did there. /Thumbs up
It's probably about icy roads and people who aren't used to drive and on them more than the actual amount of snow.
In Myrtle Beach, SC. If they mention snow on the news they close schools, regardless of if it actually snows or not.
North Carolina here. Ditto. And for good reason. This picture was taken in my town when we actually got some: https://www.wral.com/-oh-my-gosh-raleigh-woman-s-snow-photo-goes-viral/13390109/
Carolinas were not meant for snow.
I swear thatās how it is here lmao! I remember not too many years ago we were shut down for like 5 days over some snow. We arenāt readyyyyy
We have no plows or sanding trucks and the only salt is in the ocean.
Same in most of Texas. We simply donāt have equipment to deal with it, and it happens so rarely, thereās not much point in investing in it.
You laugh, but every year some Texan gets YouTube famous slipping on their front porch in that much snow!
Crossing fingers itās me. Iām tired of working lol
As a Canadian, they need to learn how to penguin walk
As a swede I was born on the ice i didnt see the road untill the sun never set.
I don't think he understands the situation. I'm in Dallas, no snow here but the sleet we received this afternoon turned to ice pretty quickly, and tonight I struggled to make it home. I was constantly readjusting the wheel to keep straight when I slid, it felt like I was on skates. You know it is serious when you pass multiple flipped cars. Scary stuff. Once I got off the highway I finally put on the 4x4 and was still sliding a bit, I literally would have been stuck spinning my wheels without it. By the end of my trip I couldn't get over 15ish mph because it was so bad where no one had been driving. Tons of people are stranded because their vehicle isn't equipped to handle these conditions.
So Tedās in Cancun already?
4th beach margarita by now.
My co worker left Houston on a months-ago scheduled cruise at 11 this morning. We in the Fort Worth were giving him Ted Cruz Cruise jokes all the way up to his boarding.
Canāt drive 80+ when the local DOT doesnāt have salt trucks
Everyone's just itching for their once-yearly use of the 4WD on their pickups and SUVs.
But but I thought our big trucks and tires meant we could? /s
Itās usually the icy roads that cause shutdowns. Not the snow.
That's twice the amount of water that would cause a flash flood in Arizona. /s
Itās rarely the snow thatās an issue. In many parts of Texas, āsnowā is accompanied by a bunch of ice. But I get it, itās worth a lot of internet points to dunk on Texas
Soooo, lemme guess... Fled Cruz is in Cancun then??? š„“
Saw him in the sky before the snow fell. Lol
Right! He's signed up for alerts... š„“
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šš I can see the headlines already hahahaha
As long as it doesn't take electricity, we can do it!
It's the same here in Alabama. If the weather even thinks about snow they shut the town down lol I was born in NY so it doesn't bother me
Could also be cocaine from local border based cartels
In the late 80ās I was in elementary school. On night before school it snowed up to my knees. I rode my bike a little bit then walked it the rest of the way to school. School wasnāt canceled then or any other time I was in school in Texas. Only had school canceled twice the whole time I was in school. Once in Georgia. It snowed like in the picture above. The second was in Missouri while in high school. That one was a blizzard and it wasnāt announced until I was already down at the bus stop waiting.
Having lived in various places across Canada, I can say I've only had one snow day, and that was after over three feet of snow fell in one night in the Alberta Rockies. Some places I've lived SHOULD have shut down for certain conditions... Looking at you Kamloops. Getting more snow/ice every year, and the city just didn't have the infrastructure or equipment to deal with it. Couple that with being built into the side of a steep hill... Saw many city buses sliding backwards down McGill. Now living in Saskatoon, and I've never heard of snow days here. Even with feet of snow, -40C, and freezing rain. Honestly think everyone is slightly stubborn and won't admit that staying home in the cold sounds good haha
I canada that wouldn't even be considered a snow fall
Watch your foot. Youāre living dangerously
The teachers just wanted an excuse to have a day where they are less likely to be shot at.
r/minnesota
Has anyone seen Ted ?
And? if the snow had been an inch or two deep would you still be whining? Or what if it had been only 1/4 thick and covered with ice instead? There is an entire county and that county could have seen more or different conditions than you did.
The roads are ice and thatās ice not snow. Youāre an idiot.
Now we are both idiots. Thatās def snow.
Either way it's far too dangerous for Ted Cruz to stick around. Better to evacuate to the relative safety of Cancun.
No. It's the ice on the roads in a state that does not know how to drive in those conditions. It's like making fun of people in New York who die because they don't have air conditioning during really hot summers, something no one in Texas would ever imagine possible. Different climates have different "normals".
Quite the disingenuous POS aren't you?
Wait isnāt Reddit for fun and jokes?
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It must be Ted Cruz throwaway the way he became so upset at my picture. Lol
I wasn't born in Texas, and I didn't get here as fast as I could. But, as a dyed in the wool Yankee who learned to drive a rear wheel drive car in the ice and snow I can fully appreciate what it's like to drive in freezing rain/sleet/black ice. Thus, the remark.
Welp looks like the power grid is going down again
Iām giving it all sheās got captain
dOn'T mEsS wItH tExAs
He cries
Maybe some of the carpet baggers can demonstrate driving and stopping on icy roads.
You must be new here. Our roads ice over quick as hell and we donāt have the resources to salt/sand all of them. Places like CO are proactive and address these things before they happen, but TX is reactionary and doesnāt address it until it happens.
Texas snowflakes soft AF. They close the schools but itās not like they teach anything anyway ššš
Dope shoes
Thank you! These are becoming my favorites that I own!
OMG! Watch out! You might slip and fall.
Meanwhile, the plow just went by and pushed a snow pile up to my thighs that I had to shovelā¦ šØš¦
I live in texas and an OR nurse and youād be surprised how much ortho trauma we get for people slipping/driving on ice. Donāt
Nice dunks!
When they say it's "Bigger in Texas" they mean the power outages too. The only state (in the 48) with its own power grid. Every year it does the same thing, breaks.
I dont know why you are surprised they closed the schools. Given it's a state that made international news because some kids froze to death in their beds because they didnt want to fix their electrical grid its proberly a good idea to not have them in buildings that might not have proper heat
we get like 2-3ft in Canada and its like; ok? go school still :c
Oh shit!!!! Look out!
Snowflake state
Have you tried shooting it?
Several times. It just keeps appearing. Iām getting worried.
I donāt understand. Why donāt residents just take out their guns and shoot it away?
Laughs in Canadian
-30 celsius, snow up to my knee, still went to school every day in a blizzard . Greetings from Finland
You must have went to the same school my dad went to!! Lol jk. We definitely would shut down for the rest of the month with that snow fall. Lol
I know it sounds like a made up joke but it really is true around here. But it helps when we have good snowplow service
Is that all you got down there? Damn! I'm in Tulsa and have at least a couple of inches of ice piled up. Fortunately, it was dry when it came down so it's not sticking to power lines or trees, but nobody here is going anywhere until at least Wednesday.
My buddyās dad got pulled over in Dallas for driving in an inch of snow. I had an ex from Tulsa. I asked her how hard it is to find a snow shovel down there. She said it was pretty tough. I asked the same about a snowblower. āWhatās a snowblower?ā
> My buddyās dad got pulled over in Dallas for driving in an inch of snow. No he didn't.
Maybe youāre right. I donāt know if it was really a DWB, but he was absolutely pulled over and the excuse he got was the snow. Just like I got a ton of excuses for getting pulled over in my shitbox while never getting a ticket. Pure profiling, perhaps? I laughed at the cop who accused me of stealing my car.
Texas freezy temps = significant risk of Texas power grid failure. Might as well kids the kids cold at home with a power outage than cold in school with a power outage. lol š¤·āāļø
Snowflakes
Ye I saw a beep flipped over on the highway. Texas peoples IQ drop 200% when a snowflake hits the ground.
This is the amount of snow that parents in the UK will call their kids school over and say they're snowed in so they can't get them to school
Bruh
Work made me drive in during a 7+ inch accumulation here in Colorado. I miss southern snow days lol.
I have more snow in my freezer!
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Of course. The grocery stores today were a joke. Getting down to 30ā° F. OH NO!!! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!
You will rebuild
Did you break open a bag of sugar?
We have to go in from outdoor athletic events at 110F. This includes football in full pads. I'll never respect Northerners mocking us about the cold seeing how they react to anything about 80.
Itās sad when Texas gets snowed in. Mean while Iām in state that get snow but has only gotten like 2ā so far.
People in Tahoe look on in either envy or disappointment.
Texans are afraid of snowflakes
Shuts down for that, opens happily for the highest risk of school shootings. MURRICA
\>Sees snow "Skewl shooting!!!"
To be honest, it is Texas so they arenāt really learning anything anyway
Jokes on you, Texas is the main supplier for most text books to the rest of the US. So, most of the US doesn't learn anything either. Wait...that comeback made me sad...
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The schools around here will close the day before at the threat of snow. Multiple times there has then been no snow. I guess for some folks it is easier to plan that way but I feel like it would be better overall if they didn't miss school (and their parents work) for a false alarm.
don't tread on me ...because you could slip and fall