@Arei:
And yeah storms are normal, I just was totally not expecting it to rain the other day and then suddenly XD Doom. It doesn't do that TOO often in October. The last few years have been pretty mild on the storm front, sans a couple of tornado outbreak days last year and the year before. This year there were quite a few gnarly storms, not as much as there have been in years past but the intensity. We got pulverised by some big hail back in April and it's been a long time since I've seen it that bad lol. So thankfully we did not partake in the carnage this week.
I grew up in the DFW area and well its not just in Tornado Alley, its the northern point of "Storm Alley", a section in Texas that goes from Denton (75 mi n. of Dallas- for those that don't know) to just below Austin. Its where the air currents from the west meet up with the ones from the gulf coast, making the area have some pretty nasty -and sudden- storms in spring mostly, but there are times weather gets whacky and they do so at other times.
I was used to the spring storms that but it still took me two years in WI to realize how different the springs are (about as different as the winters, just its nasty up here in winter, nasty down there in spring.
I can't wait to move up north and experience SEASONS. More than like 2 weeks of autumn would be nice. Way too often autumn just becomes "extended summer". Wonder how long I'll take to get tired of all the snow, since unlike here where everything shuts down at the smallest bit of ice, I'm going to be expected to drive in it ._______.
LOL I know it, Autumn has officially started here for me. The trees are finally starting to loose their leaves, and last night was first time (for my area) that night temps reached the 30s.
One joke of Texas is that there are indeed e4 seasons there=
early summer (spring) - you may get 2 weeks of 70F then its up in the 80s (as long as you stay lucky)
real summer (summer)- the 80s are a nighttime low - really I once went out at 5 am it was 96F!
late summer (autumn)- you're lucky if it stays in the 80s, maybe by late Nov. you get 60s. Rarely it gets to 50s
autumn (winter) - pfft there is no real winter. ..okay that was a joke there
drive? how about moving to a city that has public transportation? That was a main point for me when I moved to Madison, WI. IT had buses and at least 3 taxi co,(though I rarely use them) I let the pros do the driving.
That day we got a foot of snow in 2010, everyone lost their damn minds. Or super bowl week in 2011 where everything was iced over the entire fucking week. Everything stayed closed, grocery stores ran out of food. It was a mess.
I heard about that from my sis! It snowed- really snowed in the Dallas area after I moved!.. but I have no reason to be jealous, not with ammt of snow I get. Its just soo weird to hear about a foot of snow there. Ice? sure, I've had several ice storms in my life as I already said. But a real big ice storm, where it leaves 2 inches of pure ice? that's rare. I remember several, worse ones I remember were in 1988 and early 2000s (forgot exact year…actually think there were 2 in that timeframe)
In '88 was bad, my apts were on a hill, all cars were stuck with at least 2 inches of ice trapping the tires and I got pneumonia, had to walk down that slope to the street to catch a taxi to go to the hospitals ER. Not fun.
In early 00s the storm hit overnight while I was at work and my bicycle was trapped. It took a week before ti was unfrozen so I could take it home