Houston is shutting down due to the ice

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Most Texans do not know how to drive on ice.

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Link to tweet

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1. I live between Katy and Sugar Landy

There is a huge wreck near Katy

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[brer cat]

2. That looks really bad. I hope you are staying in.

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5. Yes, I am staying home

Technically my law firm is open tomorrow but I will be working from home

[brer cat]

7. Good!

[Ocelot II]

3. I had to visit Dallas once for work, and while I was there they had a little bitty snowfall,

maybe an inch or two, and the whole place shut down. Cars and trucks were in ditches all over the place. It was an amount of snow that we in MN would have barely noticed, but we have snowplows and sanding equipment, and at least after the season's first snowfall most drivers remember how to drive on snow and ice. The thing you really have to watch out for is black ice, which forms on roads when vehicle exhaust condenses and freezes, and you can't see it. If the roads haven't been sanded this can be pretty dangerous, especially at night.

[MOMFUDSKI]

4. The people in the southern states have no

clue how the northerners survive winter! lol. I once drove 4 miles to pick my husband up from work in Milwaukee in 12” of newly-fallen snow. Didn’t think much about it. Pontiac Firebird with engine in the front. LOVED that car. 🚘 Saw a Caddy slide right off the road in front of me! Memories. . .

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6. My son in law is from Illinois and he is amused by how badly Texans deal with ice

[keithbvadu2]

9. It's all relative. I was driving through Hartford Connecticut one time after a large snowstorm.

It's all relative. I was driving through Hartford Connecticut one time after a large snowstorm.

The radio announcer was saying we can't handle the snow like they can up north in Vermont.

[GopherGal]

13. To be fair, nobody can drive really well on ice...

I've lived in MA, MN and MD. The further south, the more likely any snow is to be accompanied by ice.

Personal opinions:
1) up to six inches of snow is easier to drive on than any accumulation of ice.
2) Availability of countermeasures is far superior in northern climates. Plows for snow removal (and bless the public plow-drivers as well as all the northern redneck in-laws that have a plow on the front of their 4WD pickup truck to clear out apartment building and business parking lots.) Ice melt. Sand/other road treatments for when the temperature's too low for salt to melt the ice.

[Skittles]

8. Texas briefly gets ice every year

and every year Texans act as though they have never seen it before

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10. The low temperature for Houston in 2023 was 33 degrees

[Skittles]

11. I said Texas

not specifically Houston

[WA-03 Democrat]

12. Stranded in Houston

6 flights cancelled on me today and now in a hotel near IAH. Have to go to Hobby tomorrow afternoon. Maybe or maybe not 🥶

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14. I am glad that you got a hotel

On the local news, they are saying that all hotels are booked