How do you feel about cold weather?

I’d like today’s question I think I prefer cooler seasons because I run kind of hot, but I do have a little story about a winter in Texas and how high to use my wits to avoid disaster.

Anybody who’s lived in north Texas knows the weather there can be quite schizophrenic. The few years I lived in Texas the weather was exceptionally insane, even in the winters.

In 2015 the winter in North Texas near Dallas (Irving) was pretty bad. At the time I was working in Farmers Branch off Midway (if anybody knows where that is). We had a pretty major snowstorm and got close to 8 inches of snow one Friday morning.

It’s not unheard of in Texas, but not terribly common for sure to get snow or ice (I guess I was lucky to get to witness both). They let us out of work early on account of the weather was pretty bad and my Jeep Cherokee had a bad heating core in it. so as a result, I had no heat and no way to defrost the snow and ice that was accumulating on my windshield.

I was on the turnpike and was so far getting along OK luckily, only a few miles from my exit when the car in front of me kicked up a puddle and the puddle hit my windshield and ice instantly. I could not see a thing out of my windshield at this point the windshield wipers were frozen. So I slow down, I didn’t hit the brakes and looked (as best I could) out the side window. I managed to do this for a mile and a half until I arrived at my exit and just as I was getting off the turnpike my windshield wipers became thawed. And they cleared the ice off the windshield and I was able to see again. I safely made it home and counted myself lucky.

Not long after the event, I did get my heating core replaced, but I ended up getting a new car at that point which wasn’t a bad idea as I think that Jeep Cherokee was possessed anyway….

-aaa