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Texas: 6 months of uncomfortably hot weather. Auto assembly plants opening.
Michigan: 6 months of uncomfortably cold weather. Auto assembly plants closing.
Be damn careful on your commute home tonight, peeps. The last projections I saw were for this to all stage in from 3 PM to 5 PM, and go from there. I'm already planning my alternate route in case they do close fwys.
Texas: 6 months of uncomfortably hot weather. Auto assembly plants opening.
Michigan: 6 months of uncomfortably cold weather. Auto assembly plants closing.
Ain't it the truth?
Me too!I hope you Texans feel the fierce bitter winds of the nothern climates.
So it was the city's fault that you decided to drive home at the coldest part of the day in freezing weather?
On the other end of the spectrum...on February 21, 1996 the temperature in San Antonio officially reached 100 (unofficially it was 104!). Back then, Y100 played a certain song (right at the moment I can't recall which song) anytime the temperature reached 100 degrees and the first caller to report hearing the song won $100. As I was leaving work that day, the song was playing on the radio. IN FEBRUARY!!! I thought, "Oh, man! Somebody at Y100 is gonna be in big trouble for playing that song by mistake." Then, the news came on and they said it was 104 degrees! IN FEBRUARY! I knew it was hot, but I had no idea it was that hot.
I'm suprised the city isn't shutting down now.
Where are you Marklar? I grew up in Michigan.
Dang...I'm flying up to Dallas tomorrow to go to the NCHA Cutting in Fort Worth...ice/rain all night turning to snow in the morning and a low of 18...holy !...guess I better get insurance on the rental car...
Sounds like a good idea..Just be careful driving on the high 5..Couldn't pay me enough money to drive on that thing in this kind of weather..But it sure does put me in the Christmas spirit..Dang...I'm flying up to Dallas tomorrow to go to the NCHA Cutting in Fort Worth...ice/rain all night turning to snow in the morning and a low of 18...holy !...guess I better get insurance on the rental car...
It was the city's fault for being completely unprepared for the meterological conditions. There were no barricades, there were no sand trucks. There was nothing. The snow started much earlier that night and it was wet and immedietly turned to nothing but slush and ice.So it was the city's fault that you decided to drive home at the coldest part of the day in freezing weather?
When I drove home, it hadn't rained/snowed for over 3 hours, yet the highways were still open. I don't remember the number of accidents that morning, but I believe it was over 500 and that was for a Saturday morning when there were very few people commuting.
Updated Forecast To Issue A Freezing Rain Advisory For Some Of Our
Northern Counties Based On Aob Freezing Temperatures Currently Moving
South Into Llano...burnet And Williamson Counties And Radar
Currently Showing Areas Of Rain. Freezing Rain Currently Observed
At Awos/asos Sites Across Wfo Fwd`s Area With Temperatures Falling
Into The 20s. Updated Hourly Temperature Forecasts To Show Falling
Temperatures This Afternoon. Precip Still Expected To Move East
Of The I-35 Corridor By Midnight...with Only A Brief Shot At Light
Freezing Rain For The San Antonio Metro Area. Temperatures Are
Forecast To Rise Back Above Freezing Between 11 Am And 1 Pm Thursday.
Ah, weather nerd in effect!
Yeah...I went from Callaghan and I-10 to 35 north to the SBC Center about 5:45 that morning right ahead of the road closure...It was like driving through the remnants of a demolition derby at every bridge...dozens of cars smashed...I just put it in 4WD and kept it slow and steady and never touched the brakes and got through with no problem...about 15 minute later my partner hit a bridge on the same stretch and bent the frame on his brand new HD2500...
Yeah, I had a super light car then, my ZX2, so I'm suprised I only slid once. It took me over an hour to get home that day.
Here, here...I have lived in Ohio and Virginia, loved the snow when I was a kid. I remember being out of school for nearly one straight month because of blizzards and lake effect snow.
I now hate the cold...anything below 50 degrees is too doggone cold.
When we moved here my dad said anywhere were it doesn't snow.....he said "you can't shovel heat".
Does anybody remember the "Blizzard of '85" in San Antonio? 13 inches of snow in a little over 24 hours. That's the most snow I have ever seen on the ground first hand. Man, talk about one paralyzed city!
And the really weird and unbelievable thing is that we'd already had a 3" snow that January, a couple of weeks earlier.
I was here for the 3" snow...it was the preceding week. When the big one hit, I was back in California...
Still have the commemorative booklet the SA Light put out after that...
I'll never forget waking up that Saturday morning to that incredible QUIET, not a sound anywhere. I lived right on 1604 at the time and there was NO traffic noise, which was very unusual. And then I sat up and there was that weird eerie bright light reflecting off the snow. I jumped up and ran and looked out the window and thought, "Holy !"I was here for the 3" snow...it was the preceding week. When the big one hit, I was back in California...
Still have the commemorative booklet the SA Light put out after that...
One of the funniest things I have ever seen was Sunday morning 1604 being scraped by H B Zachary road graders! This city had absolutely NO snow/ice clearing equipment that could compete with 13 inches of snow! It was almost all gone by Monday morning, though.
I was 5 and I made a snow man!
Me, too!I was here for the 3" snow...it was the preceding week. When the big one hit, I was back in California...
Still have the commemorative booklet the SA Light put out after that...
I was 13 ... and got to help shovel snow off the patio roof that collapsed under all that weight.
We walked around the neighborhood and took lots of pictures of all the snowmen in the front yards.
One of my math teachers in HS had a picture of Clark covered in snow. It was a pretty surreal image.
I was in high school during that snow and I remember Chris Marrou on the news asking folks with 4WD vehicles to call some number so they could make sure doctors and nurses got to hospitals. The neighborhood I lived in at the time had a bluff that overlooks the Salado Creek and we walked to it and everything was whitetowards downtown. , I remember Johnny Carson that night showing a picture of a guy cross-country skiing in from of the Alamo and saying that San Antonio was colder that day than Anchorage.
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