After The Ice

Hey, Everyone,

Today I’m just going to do a quick update on conditions here after the ice storm that hit early this week. Things are pretty much back to normal. The Texas sun is once more beating down and almost all the ice is melted.

Georgetown doesn’t get much snow. In fact, almost none. That means I’m spared the business of shoveling the White Stuff. But ice comes on a regular basis. I spent a major part of two days out front in the driveway cracking it up with a shovel and a large metal bar--just so we could walk out in case of an emergency.

About the photos and video: First, a shot of my little Casita in the ice storm. Second, Martha some days before the storm. (Nothing to do with the story, but I like the shot.) Third, a smap. ot of a local flower I took back in October. I believe that this is Peacock Flower, but I’m not sure.

Then, a real, absolutely true, completely not-AI video of me the morning after the storm here in Georgetown. You betcha. (Okay, I’m lying. But still, I’m sure you’ll bear with me. HA HA HA. Get it? Bear? Bear with me? Oh...never mind. Try to be a little humorous around here...sigh.)

Oh, and we knew better than to try to drive. Texas roads around here are pretty much never cleared. Local communities don’t have the plows, or salt and sand trucks to do it. So it’s all an enormous skating rink. (The night of the storm there was a 20 car pile up on the highway not too far from here. In a word, Yikes!)

Okay, and an aside, part of the reason for problems like this is local folks don’t often see snow. So *some* of them tend to drive...shall we say?....a little too aggressively. As in, waaaay too aggressively. As you’ve got a bunch of would-be cowboys in Big-A*sed, Over-Powered, Pick-Ups that don’t have four wheel drive or snow tires bombing along over streets that look like luge tracks at speeds that would be unsafe on the Bonneville Salt Flats in the middle of August.

Or, to paraphrase the great singer-songwriter James McMurtry, driving here after storm is “damn near as deadly as Texans on ice.”(*)

Anyway, here’s some photos and a couple of real-life videos about our time in the storm.

And stay tuned. Next time, I’m back to the Casita...and the rats that got in the way.

Footnote: “Holiday,” James McMurtry, https://genius.com/James-mcmurtry-holiday-lyrics

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