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Houston is shutting down due to the ice (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2024 OP
I live between Katy and Sugar Landy LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2024 #1
That looks really bad. I hope you are staying in. brer cat Jan 2024 #2
Yes, I am staying home LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2024 #5
Good! brer cat Jan 2024 #7
I had to visit Dallas once for work, and while I was there they had a little bitty snowfall, Ocelot II Jan 2024 #3
The people in the southern states have no MOMFUDSKI Jan 2024 #4
My son in law is from Illinois and he is amused by how badly Texans deal with ice LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2024 #6
It's all relative. I was driving through Hartford Connecticut one time after a large snowstorm. keithbvadu2 Jan 2024 #9
To be fair, nobody can drive really well on ice... GopherGal Jan 2024 #13
Texas briefly gets ice every year Skittles Jan 2024 #8
The low temperature for Houston in 2023 was 33 degrees LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2024 #10
I said Texas Skittles Jan 2024 #11
Stranded in Houston WA-03 Democrat Jan 2024 #12
I am glad that you got a hotel LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2024 #14

Ocelot II

(120,858 posts)
3. I had to visit Dallas once for work, and while I was there they had a little bitty snowfall,
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 06:00 PM
Jan 2024

maybe an inch or two, and the whole place shut down. Cars and trucks were in ditches all over the place. It was an amount of snow that we in MN would have barely noticed, but we have snowplows and sanding equipment, and at least after the season's first snowfall most drivers remember how to drive on snow and ice. The thing you really have to watch out for is black ice, which forms on roads when vehicle exhaust condenses and freezes, and you can't see it. If the roads haven't been sanded this can be pretty dangerous, especially at night.

 

MOMFUDSKI

(7,080 posts)
4. The people in the southern states have no
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 06:03 PM
Jan 2024

clue how the northerners survive winter! lol. I once drove 4 miles to pick my husband up from work in Milwaukee in 12” of newly-fallen snow. Didn’t think much about it. Pontiac Firebird with engine in the front. LOVED that car. 🚘 Saw a Caddy slide right off the road in front of me! Memories. . .

keithbvadu2

(40,120 posts)
9. It's all relative. I was driving through Hartford Connecticut one time after a large snowstorm.
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 06:30 PM
Jan 2024

It's all relative. I was driving through Hartford Connecticut one time after a large snowstorm.

The radio announcer was saying we can't handle the snow like they can up north in Vermont.

GopherGal

(2,401 posts)
13. To be fair, nobody can drive really well on ice...
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 09:24 PM
Jan 2024

I've lived in MA, MN and MD. The further south, the more likely any snow is to be accompanied by ice.

Personal opinions:
1) up to six inches of snow is easier to drive on than any accumulation of ice.
2) Availability of countermeasures is far superior in northern climates. Plows for snow removal (and bless the public plow-drivers as well as all the northern redneck in-laws that have a plow on the front of their 4WD pickup truck to clear out apartment building and business parking lots.) Ice melt. Sand/other road treatments for when the temperature's too low for salt to melt the ice.

WA-03 Democrat

(3,268 posts)
12. Stranded in Houston
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 08:16 PM
Jan 2024

6 flights cancelled on me today and now in a hotel near IAH. Have to go to Hobby tomorrow afternoon. Maybe or maybe not 🥶

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