Happy things
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urbpanMy happy things for yesterday were easy to know.
1. Never going more than 2 blocks from my house all day, and rarely even leaving my bed. That hasn't happened in years. Parking my car at work all weekend meant not having to play moving cars roulette with the city lot and our parking space.
2. The Solstice. I need more light. MORE LIGHT! Now it's coming.
In related news:
Portland Oregon, a shoo in for "most likely moving place" for us, has lost a lot of its lustre in the past week. I know that it's unusual weather, but the whole Pacific Northwest looks disconcertingly like New England this week. Of course, since it doesn't happen all the time, the city is unprepared, and the portland lj community is full of desperate pleas of various kinds (mostly "what liquor stores are open?!") and discussion of tire chains. Tire chains? Didn't those go out with the invention of snow tires, except for crossing the Donner Pass in January? Those poor bastards are in snow covered raincoats, eating xmas cookies intended for friends they can't reach, wondering what pizza place has a sherman tank that can get through their unsalted roads to feed them.
How are things in Austin, my Austiney friends?
1. Never going more than 2 blocks from my house all day, and rarely even leaving my bed. That hasn't happened in years. Parking my car at work all weekend meant not having to play moving cars roulette with the city lot and our parking space.
2. The Solstice. I need more light. MORE LIGHT! Now it's coming.
In related news:
Portland Oregon, a shoo in for "most likely moving place" for us, has lost a lot of its lustre in the past week. I know that it's unusual weather, but the whole Pacific Northwest looks disconcertingly like New England this week. Of course, since it doesn't happen all the time, the city is unprepared, and the portland lj community is full of desperate pleas of various kinds (mostly "what liquor stores are open?!") and discussion of tire chains. Tire chains? Didn't those go out with the invention of snow tires, except for crossing the Donner Pass in January? Those poor bastards are in snow covered raincoats, eating xmas cookies intended for friends they can't reach, wondering what pizza place has a sherman tank that can get through their unsalted roads to feed them.
How are things in Austin, my Austiney friends?
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We Get About Two Weeks Of Winter A Year
Date: 2008-12-23 07:24 am (UTC)Austin gets ice storms most years. Usually things are back to normal by the next afternoon. But once every four or five years, it stays cold and things shut down for a few days. There's usually plenty of warning, so I just stock on on food and hunker down until it warms up. The roads get quite slippery and a surprising number of people drive around as if the laws of physics don't apply to them. As a result, the number of accidents goes up by a factor of ten. So I won't drive if there is any frozen precipitation out there.
In addition to ice and snow, we get huge hail, flash floods, straight line winds, and tornadoes every now and then. With these the damage is not citywide, but if it hits your area it can be pretty destructive.
Personally I like weather. So the extremes that Austin gets are a good thing to me. But if you're looking for calm consistent warm weather, Austin may not be for you.