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    Houston is being stopped dead in their tracks due to the threat of 1-4" of snow and ice. (That's 1 to 4, not 14!)

    No, we haven't gotten any snow yet, but even the threat of it closes down all of our schools and businesses. Therefore, we will be working with a minimal staff tomorrow and some of us will be working from home. Try the forum first, then email and then phone calls, if you need assistance. No orders will be shipping tomorrow as UPS is closed down, as well. We will have access to process patterns and software purchases.

    OK, you northerners (and that is pretty much all of you) stop laughing at us, we are just simply not prepared for this stuff! I don't even own an ice scraper and not sure that I ever have! My shovel has never picked up anything that wasn't brown like dirt or a dead squirrel.

    Stay warm my friends!
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    Sounds like a bunch of "sissies" there. Just kidding!! I'm the BIGGEST sissy when it comes to cold weather! Lived in Phoenix, then moved to the Gulf Coast of Florida, now on the southernmost part of Coastal Geargia...I do NOT like cold weather, nor do I cope with it well either!

    Quote Originally Posted by lynnfrwd View Post
    Houston is being stopped dead in their tracks due to the threat of 1-4" of snow and ice. (That's 1 to 4, not 14!)

    No, we haven't gotten any snow yet, but even the threat of it closes down all of our schools and businesses. Therefore, we will be working with a minimal staff tomorrow and some of us will be working from home. Try the forum first, then email and then phone calls, if you need assistance. No orders will be shipping tomorrow as UPS is closed down, as well. We will have access to process patterns and software purchases.

    OK, you northerners (and that is pretty much all of you) stop laughing at us, we are just simply not prepared for this stuff! I don't even own an ice scraper and not sure that I ever have! My shovel has never picked up anything that wasn't brown like dirt or a dead squirrel.

    Stay warm my friends!
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    Several years ago we moved down to a warmer climate in South East Michigan,
    up in North West Michigan where I'm originally from we had 10 months of Winter
    and about 4 weeks of Poor Sleding.
    Summer always came on the first weekend of August and if you had to work, -- ya missed it
    and had to wait till next year for it to come around again.
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    Ken that picture looks like here in Iowa. Our schools were out for 2 days this week. Here where I live we had 10" of snow but also had 30 to 40 mile per hour winds to go along with it. Oh Lynn I could send you an ice scaper if that would help you. Oh this morning we were -11 degrees but we have had -21 degrees already this winter with wind so wind chill is alot colder. Keep warm & safe.

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    Okay guys.

    We got a pretty good layer of ice last night. Most of the office is out, simply because the DOT has the roads shut down because of the icy conditions. A few scragglers, myself included, managed to make it into the office, but again, as Lynn said, we are severely understaffed today. Your best bet for assistance would be the forum first, then phone calls and emails.

    Sorry for the inconvenience.
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    Quote Originally Posted by atauer View Post
    Okay guys.

    We got a pretty good layer of ice last night. Most of the office is out, simply because the DOT has the roads shut down because of the icy conditions. A few scragglers, myself included, managed to make it into the office, but again, as Lynn said, we are severely understaffed today. Your best bet for assistance would be the forum first, then phone calls and emails.

    Sorry for the inconvenience.

    Glad you made it in ok. But it is so NOT worth risking life or limb to be able to answer our silly questions! Very few things are so important they cant wait a few days. Be carful on you journey back home!
    Doug Fletcher

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    Now that makes me LLLOOOLLL!!! I haven't been able to stop shoveling since December!

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    The news just said we will refreeze again tonight and that tomorrow we will have temperatures that will reach the 60's. That's Texas weather for you.

    Common saying around here: "If you don't like Texas weather; just give it about 10 minutes and it will change."
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    I seem to remember a bit of Texas weather, being something like that one winter in the 60’s,
    while I was working at Brooke ArmyHospital at Fort Sam Houston inSan Antonio.
    There were several times that the temps were below freezing with ice at night and up to the 70’s or 80’s the next day.
    Another odd thing I recall, while I was there -- although I’m sure it’s not always true,
    it never rained untill after 10:00 pm and always stopped before 6:00 am.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kenm810 View Post
    it never rained untill after 10:00 pm and always stopped before 6:00 am.
    LOL! Are you sure that wasn't a water sprinkler outside your bedroom window?!
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