I hope it snows 8" tonight... (Houston, Dallas: live, moving to, garage)
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Those who think they would rather have the cold and snow need to experience below zero temps for consecutive days or extended times. Nothing works. Key locks dont work. Cars dont start. Batteries freeze. You just leave your car running all night. Pipes freeze if you dont let your sink and tub run all night long. Ice dams form on your roof and push up your roof shingles. The snots dripping from your nose freeze and rips your skin off when you instinctively go to wipe it. You take a pee outside and it turns to ice before it hits the ground.
You have to put on every article of clothing you own just to go to your mailbox. The snowplow will never show up until the minute after you shoveled your driveway and then he plows another ton of the white sheet in your way. You shovel your driveway and the piles on each side get so high that when you throw a shovel full of snow up it just rolls back down. When you cant throw the snow any higher you put a roof over your driveway from pile to pile with old lumber so when it snows again your driveway remains clean though you are now parking inside a tunnel.
There is no EMS or Fire service because they can not get out either. Stores have no bread, milk or eggs because everyone panics before the storm and empties out the store shelves. Home stores have no snow shovels because everyone seems to lose or break the last one they had so keep on buying another before every storm. Stores will gouge on some items like windshield washer fluid, sidewalk salt, or snow shovels and mark them up 10 times their pre storm price.
Has any of this happened when it got too hot out?
What happens when it's hot out?
You sweat a little till you get inside your air conditioned cars, houses or offices.
I'll take the heat.
LOL, some of these are very true... some a little extreme. But overall, I think you did a good job of summarizing the conditions of winter.
So, living up here in Canada we get these crazy swings. Weather warning is for 8 inches of snow tonight. I told my wife if it is more than 8 inches, we are moving to Houston and she agreed... LOL. Here's hoping. Its snowing, but the morning will tell...
That would be a very drastic move weather wise. Isn't there a happy in between for you? Houston's weather is the pits as is most of Texas'.
Houston's weather is the pits as is most of Texas'.
That is a statement of opinion, not fact as weather preferences are completely personal.
Houston's weather from November until this month has been FANTASTIC for my family...we know the hot summer is coming but these past few months have been absolutely terrific for us.
Those who think they would rather have the cold and snow need to experience below zero temps for consecutive days or extended times. Nothing works. Key locks dont work. Cars dont start. Batteries freeze. You just leave your car running all night. Pipes freeze if you dont let your sink and tub run all night long. Ice dams form on your roof and push up your roof shingles. The snots dripping from your nose freeze and rips your skin off when you instinctively go to wipe it. You take a pee outside and it turns to ice before it hits the ground.
You have to put on every article of clothing you own just to go to your mailbox. The snowplow will never show up until the minute after you shoveled your driveway and then he plows another ton of the white sheet in your way. You shovel your driveway and the piles on each side get so high that when you throw a shovel full of snow up it just rolls back down. When you cant throw the snow any higher you put a roof over your driveway from pile to pile with old lumber so when it snows again your driveway remains clean though you are now parking inside a tunnel.
There is no EMS or Fire service because they can not get out either. Stores have no bread, milk or eggs because everyone panics before the storm and empties out the store shelves. Home stores have no snow shovels because everyone seems to lose or break the last one they had so keep on buying another before every storm. Stores will gouge on some items like windshield washer fluid, sidewalk salt, or snow shovels and mark them up 10 times their pre storm price.
Has any of this happened when it got too hot out?
What happens when it's hot out?
You sweat a little till you get inside your air conditioned cars, houses or offices.
I'll take the heat.
Where in the heck did you live in the NE where this was commonplace? I lived in Michigan for 25 years and Connecticut for 2... never experienced half of what you claim. Price gouging of 1000% on shovels and salt? Maybe at really shady gas stations. The only price gouging I ever came across in Michigan was right after 9/11 when all the stupid people went rushing out to buy gas and the shady gas stations started bumping the price up to 4 and 5 dollars per gallon.
Snow can be an inconvenience, but I guarantee I had more days off this past year thanks to hurricanes/tropical storms than I ever did in a given year in Michigan because of snow/ice.
That would be a very drastic move weather wise. Isn't there a happy in between for you? Houston's weather is the pits as is most of Texas'.
Would tend to agree. I'm guessing the average Houstonian prefers the weather here, I know I do. I've spent summer time in Dallas and Oklahoma. By far the most miserably hot I've ever been (28 years of life so far) was in Memphis Tennessee, my car was reporting temps of 107 and up durring the july week I was there. The highest temp I saw durring the weekend was 113... I've lived in Houston my entire life, and I've never been that miserable and overheated. I'll take 90% humity and 95 degrees over drier 110 degree weather anyday.
Some people perpetually complain about the heat and humidity here yet give no mention of the near perfect weather we have during the Fall and "Winter". The hot summers here have never bothered me. I carry on with my life just fine.
That is a statement of opinion, not fact as weather preferences are completely personal.
Houston's weather from November until this month has been FANTASTIC for my family...we know the hot summer is coming but these past few months have been absolutely terrific for us.
You're right; I did not clarify I was talking about summer which may last from about April or May until October or November. Winter can be great. I have often mentioned on the Texas forum how much I love Texas winters. In fact, I wish they were even colder than they are.
the warmth of the gulf of mexico intensifies hurricanes which set up an equally frustrating circumstance. the situation you spoke of is something i'd much rather prefer to the disaster we went through after hurricane ike.
No offense but Hurricane Ike doesn't happen every year and doesn't stay for multiple days at a time...what was described was a bit extreme but for the most part does happen in most Canadian cities every year. And these conditions are what most live in for many days and sometimes weeks at a time.
I'm a Canadian...fortunately living in Toronto..but have lived out west before and know what it's like to have a block heater in the car so the gasoline in your car doesn't freeze and the car door locks open in the morning.
No offense but Hurricane Ike doesn't happen every year and doesn't stay for multiple days at a time...what was described was a bit extreme but for the most part does happen in most Canadian cities every year. And these conditions are what most live in for many days and sometimes weeks at a time.
I'm a Canadian...fortunately living in Toronto..but have lived out west before and know what it's like to have a block heater in the car so the gasoline in your car doesn't freeze and the car door locks open in the morning.
Ummm... the block heater keeps the oil warm so it can flow, it doesn't do a thing for the gas or the door locks! For gas, you have to add "gas-line antifreeze" which is basically either methanol or isopropanol. The gas itself doesn't freeze -- it is the water than can sometimes be in it that cause the problem. Door locks -- don't wash your car during winter or carry a squirt bottle of alcohol.
I grew up and lived in western Canada through some extreme winter conditions and love the hot summer here instead!
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