Texas Blizzard

If you know anyone in Texas (or even if you don’t) I am sure you have heard all about the crazy weather we got last week.  I have lived in TX my entire life and never seen weather like this. I had to recap the Texas Blizzard of 2021 so I would have it to look back on.

Let me start by saying we got so lucky.  I have never been more glad to be in a rental house without a pool.  Yes, we had rolling power that was on/off every 30 minutes, but we stayed warm, didn’t have any damage, etc.  Others did not have the same experience and my heart and prayers go out to them.  There will be a lot of people in Texas recovering from this storm for awhile.  We are just not equipped to handle this type of weather here.

My kids thought it was the best thing ever.  School was cancelled for the week and due to rolling power they weren’t even virtual. . .it was just cancelled.  We tried to make the most of it and get out and enjoy ALL THE SNOW!  I told them, they may never see snow like this again in Texas during their lifetime.  The last time TX had negative weather was in 1930!  We got to -2 degrees here and the windchill was around -14!! 

The amazing people who own our farmhouse had ski clothes and sleds from when their kids were younger.  They loaned them to us and it was awesome!  Our little knit gloves just weren’t cutting it.  We built snowman, had snowball fights, went sledding, did all the things to soak in this crazy experience. 

 All plans were cancelled, restaurants closed, roads empty.  It looked like a ghost town around here.  Very much like around this time last year when the pandemic hit! 

Seriously, in the last 12 calendar months we have lived through things that have never happened before.  Such a crazy time in life. I am ready to hear less of “unprecedented times”.

This was the first day we got snow.  We thought that was a lot, but then we got so much more.

Everything was so beautiful.

We went and checked on our animal friends . . .

We took lots of pictures and then would run inside to thaw out!

We learned how to get creative without power.  I even heated mashed potatoes in a skillet . . . that was a first!  When the power was on every 30 minutes we were running around like crazy people to get things done.  Work, drying hair, drying wet clothes, etc. I know it seems obvious, but you forget how everything is run by electricity!  Geoff and I have a bed that raises and the first night we were in bed, with it raised, watching a movie and the power went off.  OOPS . . .we couldn’t get it to go back down so we had to sleep basically sitting up!  Power came back on around 2 am and we quickly lowered it.  We learned our lesson there!  This was basically us . . .

The roads really weren’t too bad.  There was lots of snow, but no ice.  We got out for a bit to check on our lot which is just around the corner.

Like I said before, our family was very lucky and although there were some inconveniences, we had fun making lots of memories during the Texas blizzard.

The memes were so funny. . .and so true!

 Now that the storm has passed I know lots of people have extensive damage to take care of.  Sending prayers to everyone affected in a negative way by this storm.  I am hoping that most reading this were able to enjoy the snow and didn’t suffer from it.