Give Texas bridges and highways a space heater!
If you are not from Texas, you have probably enjoyed smirking at the Lone Star State and how it completely shuts down with actual winter weather. Here's the thing: our state is just not built for this. At all. Not the roads. Not the houses. Not the people who have spent at least five years here. Here, cold is maybe close to freezing in the wee hours of the night. Until the last few years, most people had seen snowfall that wasn't measurable. Now, we see ice and snow each season around January. *NOTE: I am not a meteorologist but I have stayed at Holiday Inn Express. After yet ANOTHER few days of watching Old Man Winter squeeze Texas so hard that schools and businesses had to shut down, I did what most home-bound people were doing. I watched weather coverage from all over the state. The photo above is from this Dallas Morning News article about the Metroplex turned Tundra. Many cities faced this struggle. Bridges and overpasses were turned into slick parking lots, some...