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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
I haven't seen it get quite as cold here as it does in the Northern plains .... in fact, I would say the coldest I have personally seen here is about 15 degrees F with a wind chill taking it down to about 5 below zero.
However, even that can be nasty when you have no heat.
I'm in the Hill Country part of Texas. Outside (about an hour drive from) Austin.
The temperature seems to bounce around extremes here. One night it will be 80 degrees at midnight, and the next morning it's 20 and snowing. One lady told me that she had just given up on her garden because she didn't have the time to keep running out and covering up her plants every time the weatherman announced another hard freeze.
I doubt that last night would have been so bad, however, because the weather has been hot-cold-hot-cold, I didn't bring any wood in this year for the fireplace in the great room. I didn't want to trudge out last night (too cold, and too many lions) to get wood, so no fire. The other fireplace burns propane .... that's how I knew the propane had run out .... one minute nice fire ... the next blip ... nothing.
I think, just for the heck of it, after I call the propane guys today, I'm going to make up the fire and bring in the firescreen. I'm also going to hunt down my down booties and other gear so I've got that handy.
I did end up doing a long stint in the steam room last night, then put on a few layers of clothing and jumped into bed with as much bedding as I could find piled on top. I'm sure I looked like a load of wash, but I was warm.  |
Warm is good. I'm from the panhandle of Texas, originally, just about midway between Amarillo and the Oklahoma line. Then the last ten years I was there we moved down to what's fondly known as the "Big Country"...between Ft. Worth and Abilene.
Up in the Panhandle, it gets cold and stays that way, and the wind sure doesn't help matters. The Abilene area is more temperate, but it does still snow occasionally and get cold, though as the other poster pointed out, it doesn't STAY cold for long.
It was really funny when I moved up here though when people would assume I had never seen snow.
I'm glad you made it through warmly, load of laundry or not. Hope they make it out to check your propane tank soon!