Is it still winter? It Depends.

 

Everyone seems to want to rush through winter.  I guess if you live where it snows, that's totally understandable.  Here in Southeast Texas, we rarely, and I mean RARELY get snow.  We do get ice, though.  In fact, they threatened a big ice storm a couple of weeks ago, but thankfully, it didn't happen.  We had some freezing temperatures but not much precipitation.  Then this past week, we were in the 80's for 3 days in a row.

We did have a historic ice storm exactly 5 years ago that was one of Texas' worst natural disasters.  Millions without power, some for more than a week, snow in many places, ice over the entire state, over 200 deaths.  I don't care to relive that.  We have had a few freezes this year, but nothing like that.

If we use Groundhog Phil as an indicator, we still have another four weeks of winter to go, which actually lines up closely with the actual first day of Spring, March 20th.  How has winter been treating your area?

This actually happens.

All in good fun, people.  Have a great week.  Don't forget to visit Happy Tuesday and Random Tuesday Thoughts.