All right you northerners, have a good laugh, snicker and giggle. Yeah, we are idiots and dangerous on icy roads. I sit 75 miles north of Houston, Tx and me and DH have been watching the closed freeways on the news. Of course, our Bubba's in their pick-em-up-trucks think they are invinceable and they hit the ice with predictable results. Schools and businesses are closed. I dutifully got up, scraped ice off the windshield and went to work. Hmmm for some silly reason I didn't read the text the boss sent out at 3 AM this morning. A co-worker called before I got there, so I went home. No work today. The news crews are out in force with minute by minute coverage of the wrecks and ice. Pleading with people to stay home because the ambulances, police and firemen can't even get to these loonies when they smash into the side wall of an elevated freeway ramp. Several people have paid with their lives to find out not to drive 70 MPH over an iced up bridge. Many others that, to use a country phrase, "are eat up with the dumb a _ _ " and are now stranded in their cars. Duh, just when did you realize you should have stayed home? When your tires spun with no traction, or was it when you smashed your shiny car into the side railing? Yes......we are stupid.
Since I had all the ice scraped off, I went out in the sleet to go feed my horses and break ice out of their water tanks. They have 2 round bales and I have been giving them extra feed this week so they are ok. The chickens got warm water, scratch, shrimp hulls, greens and leftover chicken. I bet they wish it would ice up every day. They both promptly popped out 2 lovely brown eggs for us. Gotta love those girls.
Our Great Pyrenees was so excited when we went in the back yard to feed the chickens, that she ran down the length of the deck and slid off the end in a heap. We laughed at her antics. She is in her element in the cold. She has been enjoying her hay filled dog house in between running around like a clown and patrolling her yard.
I know my friends up north have to deal with ice and snow as a matter of winter, but it is a rare occurance for us. For the entire city of Houston sitting 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico to be paralyzed with ice is astounding. We had an ice storm in 1995 that shut down major highways for 3 days. Tomorrow it is supposed to be in the 50's, so it will all melt, but those foolish enough to venture out today will have damaged vehicles to keep as a souvenir.
Since I had all the ice scraped off, I went out in the sleet to go feed my horses and break ice out of their water tanks. They have 2 round bales and I have been giving them extra feed this week so they are ok. The chickens got warm water, scratch, shrimp hulls, greens and leftover chicken. I bet they wish it would ice up every day. They both promptly popped out 2 lovely brown eggs for us. Gotta love those girls.
Our Great Pyrenees was so excited when we went in the back yard to feed the chickens, that she ran down the length of the deck and slid off the end in a heap. We laughed at her antics. She is in her element in the cold. She has been enjoying her hay filled dog house in between running around like a clown and patrolling her yard.
I know my friends up north have to deal with ice and snow as a matter of winter, but it is a rare occurance for us. For the entire city of Houston sitting 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico to be paralyzed with ice is astounding. We had an ice storm in 1995 that shut down major highways for 3 days. Tomorrow it is supposed to be in the 50's, so it will all melt, but those foolish enough to venture out today will have damaged vehicles to keep as a souvenir.
