Unusual in Central Texas
Feb 13, 2021 07:51:20 #
Recent rain and rapid temp decrease produced these unusual ice-covered tree shots.
Feb 13, 2021 08:07:19 #
Feb 13, 2021 08:10:58 #
Thanks. Drivers here can't navigate dry roads, let alone wet and icy conditions.
Feb 13, 2021 08:24:49 #
Once an ice storm gave me no other choice but to pull off the road and wait, the roads were that slick. Be careful.
Feb 13, 2021 11:57:32 #
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Feb 13, 2021 15:40:54 #
waymond wrote:
Recent rain and rapid temp decrease produced these unusual ice-covered tree shots.
Wow
A lot of weight on them We have some days like that here where it looks like a little winter wonderland with everything made of glass. Then it melts. Interesting shots 
Feb 14, 2021 08:45:26 #
waymond wrote:
Recent rain and rapid temp decrease produced these unusual ice-covered tree shots.
I'm just a few miles west of you in NW Austin. It is really bad and will be for several days. I've lived through the 1949 record of -2 degrees here in Austin but this is looking to be worse. Stay safe.
Feb 14, 2021 08:47:48 #
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Feb 14, 2021 14:15:35 #
I had one tour in Korea in a winter of -25 degrees.
For a Texas lad that's super cold. I also survived winters in Kansas City, Washington, D. C., and New Jersey before returning to Texas and giving up snowsuits, thermals, snow shovels, and snow plows.
For a Texas lad that's super cold. I also survived winters in Kansas City, Washington, D. C., and New Jersey before returning to Texas and giving up snowsuits, thermals, snow shovels, and snow plows.
Feb 14, 2021 17:18:22 #
Feb 14, 2021 17:44:03 #
Chout
Loc: Central Texas
I'm up in Lampasas County. About 17 years ago I was working in Northwest Austin at IBM, I remember a bad ice storm. It took me over four hours to drive the 60 or so miles home. The last 20 were on a Farm Market Road covered with about an inch layer of ice. I remember that there was a truck stopped in the right hand lane as its driver changed his right rear tire. If he had pulled over on the shoulder, he would have never gotten back on the road.
Be careful down there. We're expecting a low of around 5 degrees tonight. This is the coldest I have seen it in Central Texas, but not the coldest I have experienced. I remember a couple of weeks on Exercise Caravan Guard up in the Fulda Gap in 1987. Five degrees F would have been balmy.
Be careful down there. We're expecting a low of around 5 degrees tonight. This is the coldest I have seen it in Central Texas, but not the coldest I have experienced. I remember a couple of weeks on Exercise Caravan Guard up in the Fulda Gap in 1987. Five degrees F would have been balmy.
Feb 14, 2021 18:14:05 #
Fine shots of rare conditions. I've got about an inch of snow on my street in Dallas. Temperatures as low as 9°F I hear. I've been in colder temperatures (in Labrador, -35°F) but I had proper gear for it there. We have a strong west wind right now, too.
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