It was in the 70's here last week. On Sunday a storm rolled in. The temperature plummeted, thunder and lightening and freezing rain. We had 2" - 4" at the house which turned to sheet ice. East Texas was pretty much shut down. There was a 55 degree temperature change in a matter of hours.
My poor wife, bless her heart, went in to town late yesterday afternoon to stay at the local hotel. She's the election judge at the polls today. The hotel is a lot closer to the polling station than the house and she had to open it at 7 o'clock this morning. I don't know why, there isn't going to be anyone stupid enough to be there at 7 o'clock!!!!
Before I let her drive into town I made a recce run beforehand to check things out. Man, Texans have no idea how to drive when the weather gets bad. All the way from the house to the main road was just sheet ice, about 2 miles. The main road itself, about 4 miles in to town, wasn't too bad but you could tell that the idiots had been there by the number of cars abandoned off on the side of the road.
I think that I'll wait until this afternoon before going in to vote. It's supposed to get up to 40 and hopefully the ice will be gone.