Only in Texas

(bird_dog0347) · (bird_dog0347) **Join Date: Feb 2006** 03-03-2008, 5:39 PM

Yesterday we took the boat out and it was 73 degrees air, 55 water. Saturday was almost 75 degrees.

fast forward to 7pm today...
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(norcalbordr) · (norcalbordr) **Join Date: Feb 2006** 03-03-2008, 5:45 PM

I had no clue it even snowed in TX

(bird_dog0347) · (bird_dog0347) **Join Date: Feb 2006** 03-03-2008, 5:52 PM

It snows all the time up in the pan-handle (Amarillo) but only about once a year here in DFW. Even then it is mostly sleet or ice, rarely is it snow.

(blind) · (blind) **Join Date: Jun 2006** 03-03-2008, 6:47 PM

like they always say here in texas, if you don't like the weather, wait ten minutes it will change

(dkmode34) · (dkmode34) **Join Date: Mar 2004** 03-03-2008, 6:56 PM

yeah yesterday it was 75 and sunny at 6pm and at 7pm it was about 40 with a 15 degree windchill and we woke up this morning with snow!

(hype29) · (hype29) **Join Date: Feb 2007** 03-03-2008, 6:56 PM

It also happened here in Colorado, 72 degrees on Saturday and then yesterday woke up to 25 degrees and blowing snow. I think they say that every where about waiting ten minutes

(bmcgee) · (bmcgee) **Join Date: Nov 2007** 03-03-2008, 7:07 PM

Thats just like oklahoma, except last night we had tornadoes

(blind) · (blind) **Join Date: Jun 2006** 03-03-2008, 7:08 PM

dubbe, come on down in a month or so, it will be the time of year that we get our daily tornado warnings! which is always fun

(dkmode34) · (dkmode34) **Join Date: Mar 2004** 03-03-2008, 7:23 PM

i love getting kicked off the lake bc of tornadoes \...it happened like 3 times last summer!

(hype29) · (hype29) **Join Date: Feb 2007** 03-03-2008, 7:36 PM

that does sound like fun. We don't have to worry tornados here, but we do have to worry about lighting. 2 years ago a guy was killed by lighting while we were on the lake

(hydrophile) · (hydrophile) **Join Date: Aug 2007** 03-04-2008, 7:52 AM

Also, there was a tornado watch for most of north Texas in the first part of the day. Not often that there's a tornado watch and 80% chance of snow in the same day!

(dlwsrider) · (dlwsrider) **Join Date: Apr 2007** 03-04-2008, 8:18 AM

Trust me, thats not just a Texas thing.

I was wearing flip flops and shorts yesterday, and right now I'm waiting on one of my friends to get here so we can go snowboarding in my yard after a freak snow fall.

Arkansas has the weirdest weather ever.

(bird_dog0347) · (bird_dog0347) **Join Date: Feb 2006** 03-04-2008, 8:20 AM

That is the same storm that rolled through here last night I am sure... We got snow dumped on us, that never happens.

(jason_ssr) · (jason_ssr) **Join Date: Apr 2001** 03-04-2008, 10:36 AM

snapped this really quick with my phone this morning. Im de-icing the Beetle with my Texas Ice Scraper...

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(denverd1)

i knew it got cold last nite, but damn!

(blind) · (blind) **Join Date: Jun 2006** 03-04-2008, 1:44 PM

SSR, whats an Ice scraper?

(trickyboarder08)

Dang, it didnt get near that cold over here in East Texas.

(dizzyg) · (dizzyg) **Join Date: May 2005** 03-04-2008, 2:04 PM

wow...I feel horrible for you having to wait a day or two to ride. Must be rough. Talk to me when you're above 6' for the last two months and your lake won't be thawing out for another month or two.

I have no sympathy for you guys.

(blind) · (blind) **Join Date: Jun 2006** 03-04-2008, 2:11 PM

brooke, this is why I live in Texas.

(denverd1)

c'mon man, haven't ridden since November!

(trickyboarder08)

yea, November was my last ride also. But i'm going spring break. Only 2 weeks away.

(bird_dog0347) · (bird_dog0347) **Join Date: Feb 2006** 03-04-2008, 2:49 PM

I have not ridden since October, hunting season took top priority.

(jason_ssr) · (jason_ssr) **Join Date: Apr 2001** 03-04-2008, 5:00 PM

it was gone by lunch. funny, it never actally got below freezing! I rode in trunks last weekend. Granted I was down in south padre.

(kana12) · (kana12) **Join Date: Jan 2008** 03-04-2008, 5:05 PM

lol.. thats funny.. the weather is crap here in college station also but at least you get some snow. we only get it one every few years and not even enough to last more than about 1 min. on the ground with out mealting.. lol

(joshbuzz) · (joshbuzz) **Join Date: Sep 2007** 03-04-2008, 6:24 PM

Brooke, I don't think we were looking for sympathy, just pointing out irony lol.

(dizzyg) · (dizzyg) **Join Date: May 2005** 03-04-2008, 7:40 PM

its a touchy subject living where our lakes freeze so solid you can drive onthem for months at a time. I dont have a clue how people farther north handle life.

(joshbuzz) · (joshbuzz) **Join Date: Sep 2007** 03-04-2008, 8:26 PM

haha, I can imagine.

I've lived in a few different countries, and states(Saudi, Abu Dhabi, Trinidad, Texas, and Cali), but never had to deal with any of our water freezing over. I don't know what I'd do with myself.

(da_kamp) · (da_kamp) **Join Date: Jan 2008** 03-04-2008, 8:29 PM

been in the high 60's - mid 70's for a couple weeks over here........

(fletch_tx) · (fletch_tx) **Join Date: Aug 2003** 03-04-2008, 9:58 PM

going riding tomorrow here in Austin....forecast says 79 :-)

(2007_x2) · (2007_x2) **Join Date: May 2007** 03-04-2008, 10:41 PM

dude my buddies that went to boot camp in texas said they can wake up and its 75-80 and in a few hours its snowing. thats crazy!

(denverd1)

this morning:
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(trickyboarder08)

Yea, it was snowing really bad this morning in East Texas. The snow is still on the ground and roofs, but it's not coming down anymore.

(denverd1)

it is in Tyler

(tx03gt) · (tx03gt) **Join Date: Feb 2008** 03-07-2008, 9:28 AM

Even got some snow in College Station.

(mike2001) · (mike2001) **Join Date: Feb 2008** 03-07-2008, 9:36 AM

and now that storm system is starting to slam us up in here in Cleveland...though nothing new for us

(trickyboarder08)

it's snowing again in Henderson

(bird_dog0347) · (bird_dog0347) **Join Date: Feb 2006** 03-07-2008, 12:15 PM

Yeah, yesterday it started snowing around 2pm and did not let up until about 7 or 8 last night. We got a ton of snow yesterday. I will post pics after I get new batteries in my camera. I heard that this was the first time since the mid 1960's that we had two snow falls in the same month here in north Texas.

(dmcguirt23) · (dmcguirt23) **Join Date: Aug 2004** 03-07-2008, 12:34 PM

We're getting the same weather over here in Louisiana.

Heres yesterday.

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And here is today.

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(bird_dog0347) · (bird_dog0347) **Join Date: Feb 2006** 03-07-2008, 12:39 PM

Ok guys, the title of this thread is "Only in TEXAS"!!! By posting evidence of the same thing happening in other states, you are completely undermining the basis of this thread!

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Oh well, I guess other states just use photoshop so they can seem as cool as us Texans.

(trickyboarder08)

Texans ARE the coolest. End of story, that's just how it is.

(512boarder) · (512boarder) **Join Date: Jul 2004** 03-07-2008, 4:48 PM

It snowed all day that day here in Lubbock, but it didn't stick at all. kinda lame really.

(bigshow) · (bigshow) **Join Date: Feb 2005** 03-09-2008, 1:34 PM

How would you like this?

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(dmcguirt23) · (dmcguirt23) **Join Date: Aug 2004** 03-10-2008, 12:28 AM

grosssss. I have a friend in Ohio that told me yall got dumped on. Whats crazy is that two days after our first big snow in NINE years, it is now 75 degrees and we're playing volleyball again. One snow day was fun, but its about all I need until I go somewhere that i expect to get snow, like Colorado. The last time Louisiana had a snow like that was during the Independence Bowl in 99.

(jagermeister) · (jagermeister) **Join Date: Sep 2007** 03-10-2008, 8:07 PM

Dam.... Winter is a destination.. then you go back home... brrrrrrrrrr

(dlwsrider) · (dlwsrider) **Join Date: Apr 2007** 03-10-2008, 8:42 PM

We got 6 inches friday, but I was walking through the melting snow wearing a T-shirt the next day. Weeeeird weather