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Over the past few days, the North Texas area has been preparing for the impending ice storm, like the coast usually prepares for a category 5 hurricane. People were stocking up on supplies, filling up their tanks and buying enough firewood to stock a home for the entire winter. There has been nothing else on the news for the last two days except play by plays of ice pellets and freezing rains from every corner of the vicinity. News anchors are almost at a loss for words, as they have repeated every ounce of jargon possible in their 24 hour run of news coverage of the "ICE STORM of 09," it is all quite laughable.
I have concluded at times, we Texans can be idiots and I readily admit I am one of the many idiots in Texas, when it comes to driving on ice and snow, but the level of stupidity at times is amazing. Remember down here, we are considered the land of pick up trucks and luxury SUV's. Quite honestly, it's like watching a herd of bulls try to ice skate, the biggest vehicles fly by thinking they are invincible, only to be the first to go sailing across the ice and usually ending flipping upside down.
Before all of you, Yankee and Midwesterners start in… I will remind you that we are in the Sunbelt, the land of plenty and most of the natives here are from somewhere else, probably from your town, or your state, so idiocracy is not exclusive to my home state .
The children of this great state were ecstatic, at least I know the one's in North Texas. Our school district tends to air on the side of stupidity and rarely closes its doors, even on bad weather days. They fear funding cuts, for days missed, the days of my childhood of closing to play in the snow are long gone, but every once and awhile they surprise us.
While most dread these type of days, I find it a great excuse to bond, to hang out with the kids and watch movies in our pajamas. Make s'mores and play games… away from all the idiot Texas drivers
