Storm, freezing rain

[boomersooner]

I live in the Dallas area, so a lot of the people coming down for the Super Bowl brought shorts and shirt sleeves! It is very, very cold here.....Lots of sleet...very little snow....on Tuesday morning....temperature won't get above freezing until maybe Friday. They've been turning everyone's power off for periods of 15 minutes or so periodically throughout the day. No school on Tuesday or today....The temp hasn't gotten above 17 or 18 today with windchills about 0-3....I haven't gotten out of the house except to let the pups out to do their business in the yard to the left and right of the front porch...LOL Glad I have two snuggling springers to keep me warm!

[Karen]

I am back inside now, for the first time in hours - we had probably 5 inches of snow, then sleet then rain, so basically I was pushing slush and trying to beat the clock before it all turns to ice! I certainly do not need any more exercise today!

One of the highlights of the yuckiness was our neighbor pup Roxy, she's a German Shepherd rescue gal who has been here for maybe 2 months now, a rescue from down South, and she was having a fabulous time leaping through the snowbanks while her person walked on the street. She came bounding toward me, and we had a good wiggly patting session, then she leapt to a higher snowbank and look oh-so-proud surveying the land! Roxy might be 8 months, not sure, black and tan and all energy, but her person told me "If these snowbanks get any higher, I'm gonna have to buy a longer leash just so she can reach the top and I can stay here on the ground!