Panic & chaos

Quick, run to the store.  Buy bread, milk, non-perishable items, canned goods, cereal, bottled water, toilet paper, etc, etc, etc.  While you’re there, you may want to pick up a shotgun and enough ammo to defend yourself should things get bad…

Now, I hope you’re asking yourself, what could it possibly be?  Are we preparing for an earthquake?  A hurricane?  Armageddon?  The answer is:  rain. 

Not just any rain, mind you… This rain is special.  It’s in houston.  And it’s pretty cold, too. 

Today’s forcast:  low of 33 this morning, with a high of 38, and getting down to 36 tonight. 

This is apparently scary for Houstonians.  We have (let me just pull up the page here…)  a winter weather advisory, a winter storm warning, and an ice storm warning.  They closed down businesses.  They closed down streets and highways.  They closed down every major school district in the Houston metro area.  Seriously.  It’s not freezing, and it won’t be freezing any time today, and they closed down all the schools.  I lack the words to appropriately make fun of and chastize such a large group of people. 

What amazes me is that we’ve been under an Ice Storm Warning for our second day, and I didn’t even see any light rain until this morning.  I mean, really.  How can you have an ice storm with no rain and only near freezing temperatures?  Am I missing something?  Did the laws of thermodynamics change while I was out to lunch? 

I could continue to rant, but I think you get the point.  And yes, I concede the point that overpasses may freeze in low-but-not-quite-freezing temps, but is that a reason to close a city?  (especially when it’s not even raining?)