Snow in Dallas? Snow in Little Rock? Snow in Cibolo? Yes to all. But in truth, as long as you are not part of the 133 car pile-up in Texas it is kinda, sorta OK. A couple of days of snow falling, ice covering, you stay inside. Snug as a guy pretending you are on vacation. Provided you have power. Electric power. 200,000 plus people in our area do not have it. For days at a stretch. We have had house guests so they can be inside a house with all the comforts of home. Heat. Warm Water. That kind of stuff. Down in Cibolo about 60% Of their electricity is provided by solar. Only with the cloudy weather, they have implemented rolling blackouts. We are lucky here in a part of southeast Portland where there have been no outages. And maybe I should restrict my comment to our block. A half-mile away there were traffic signals out. Everybody switching to four-way stops.
So I do not know how many of you have not had any snow yet. But I do caution you to be thankful. You could have trees on the ground. Or be one of the electrical crews working all day and all night to restring the cables. There are still hundreds of thousands of people who have not had any power for three days. All due to the ice that fell before the snow.
— MichaelRpdx :: rkmm