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Old 02-21-2021, 08:04 PM
JL
 
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I'm going to fill up my empty bottles of water at work tomorrow since no bottled water at the stores that i can find.
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Old 02-21-2021, 08:51 PM
 
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I'm going to fill up my empty bottles of water at work tomorrow since no bottled water at the stores that i can find.
I saw tons of bottled water at HEB last Friday. It was in suburbs though. And it was cheap. Was little bit surprised after reading all the news about bottled water shortage.
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Old 02-27-2021, 07:57 AM
 
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Texas doesn't receive snow dude, the whole state is technically on top of a natural spring that keeps temperatures over 40 degrees maximum.
Say what? Are you joking or serous?
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Old 02-27-2021, 01:03 PM
 
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Say what? Are you joking or serous?
It seems like every 4 or 5 years, we will get a snowfall down here.
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Old 02-27-2021, 01:42 PM
 
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The only difference between this event and the one from December 22-23, 1989 is the freezing temperatures stuck around a little longer this time. Anyone who says this was some sort of unprecedented event either has never been there and knows nothing about Texas, or just moved there sometime well after they stopped maintaining the power grid infrastructure properly.

Back in '89 I built a snowman in the front yard in Texas City. A lot of things when you're eight years old you forget, but that ain't going to be one of them. Not in that part of the world.

There was a bigger snow there on Christmas morning in 2004, but it was just cold enough for the snow to stick then.
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Old 02-27-2021, 01:50 PM
 
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I want to know more about the natural spring that keeps the whole state of Texas at 40 degrees maximum.
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Old 02-27-2021, 03:12 PM
 
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I want to know more about the natural spring that keeps the whole state of Texas at 40 degrees maximum.
I wonder how many bowls you gotta smoke to come up with that? Not TallGreenGrass BTW, the original post. 'Must be one hell of a spring!
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Old 02-27-2021, 09:14 PM
 
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The only difference between this event and the one from December 22-23, 1989 is the freezing temperatures stuck around a little longer this time. Anyone who says this was some sort of unprecedented event either has never been there and knows nothing about Texas, or just moved there sometime well after they stopped maintaining the power grid infrastructure properly.

I also remember 16 degrees back around 1980. But how long the freeze lasts is one of the most critical aspects of it.
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Old 02-27-2021, 09:57 PM
 
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I also remember 16 degrees back around 1980. But how long the freeze lasts is one of the most critical aspects of it.
December 1983 was a bad freeze. 11 degrees or so in Houston. Below freezing for almost 5 days. Bays froze over 100 yards out from shore, Trinity bay 500 yards.
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Old 02-28-2021, 01:26 AM
 
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I also remember 16 degrees back around 1980. But how long the freeze lasts is one of the most critical aspects of it.
Jan 2018 was the coldest I had ever remembered in Houston. I think that was the coldest since 1989 before the 2021 vortex. But, the 2018 freezes were short lived. In 2018, while some plants lost leaves with the 19 degrees, they ALL came back that spring/summer. I don't know about this time.

Houston looks really sad, not even any signs of spring, which is abnormal this far south.
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