Thursday, February 21, 2008

2/21 - 4pm - Houston, We Have an Ice STORM!

I totally didn't expect JCPS to dismiss early today. Apparently the NWS held a press conference and told the school systems to either dismiss early or suffer the consequences. Kudos to the NWS!

We're not done yet even though the freezing rain is tapering off. Later tonight, if we are below freezing, the mother of all ice events will come through with a possibility of thunder too. It looks like we'll be below freezing until 4am the NWS says. If that's the case, we'll have more than a 1/2" of ice. That's a terrible mess folks. If we indeed stay below freezing that long, you can count on at least a 2 hour delay tomorrow for school systems around the area.

My street is a sheet of ice, but the interstates are fine. Looks like the metro road crews have pulled through once again! Too bad they can't do the neighborhood streets, but that would be way too much salt and money down the drain.

We'll see how the temperature holds...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well, the neighborhood streets are what counts in delays, cancellations.

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