Please allow me to interject my feelings about Mother Nature

Hi folks! Checking in from the Houston metro area after 34 hours without power - nooootttttt fun. Thought I left this ice storm shit behind in New England...

We did proper hurricane prepping, so thankfully, a bunch of stuff we had from that, we could reuse. My wife is a heck of a planner, but in an actual emergency situation, she panics like crazy, and I had to lightly convince her that we weren't going to die from one or two nights of sleeping in a 50-degree home. (Yay for me for knowing this from growing up poor, I suppose.) The roads here are still completely frozen over though, and my work (University of Houston) is closed through Thursday at the least.

 

Gotta think it’s pretty tough to find your golf ball in all that snow...

I’ll see myself out.

 

That was my territory for 7 1/2 years. I am very familiar with the drive you describe. Cold weather plus a wind over Lake Superior = lake effect snow. The Houghton County Airport has measured four FEET in the last 12 days.

 

On a Fat Tuesday in which people are being ordered not to congregate, the fact that it was 27 degrees in the New Orleans the last time I checked feels a bit like a theophany today.

 

It's supposed to be upper 50's by the weekend here.
I'm telling you, that is going to feel like a heatwave.

 

It's still 25 degrees here, but the sun has come out so some of the ice is starting to melt. That's good. I was afraid it'd be tomorrow before it got warm enough for that.
On the downside, Round 3 comes in tomorrow night. Snow and ice on the northern side of the storm and potentially severe thunderstorms and tornadoes on the other side. Fun times.

 

It's still a crisp 10 degrees here right now, with a south wind at about 15.....I can already tell a big difference between this and the last few days.
Kids, I'm telling you.....the last few days, I let the dogs outside to piss, and they take one look at me and say "Hey.....you get your fat ass out here with us old man."
My kid did decide to venture out in -18 the other morning for about 20 seconds in just a pair of shorts just to see exactly how cold it was.
"Holy shit dad......you have no idea."
He just turned 21 yesterday, so he's still young, dumb, and full of piss and vinegar.

 

Every bit of our snow (and it was really just a dusting, an inch or two where it stuck) is gone, even though it's twenty degrees. Sublimated, just blew away.

 

It was below freezing a couple of days I lived in NOLA, but always in December. Our pipes burst, once.