We asked Texas transplants for some tips to help us survive the snow and ice of a frigid week to help our nerves chill a bit. We received over 80 responses...
After several rounds of freezing rain overnight, ice formed on trees and bushes in Stevens Park Golf Course, as seen before a cloud-covered downtown Dallas, February 2, 2023. Temperatures gave way to melting later in the afternoon.
In 2021, when record-low temperatures and a series of snow storms gave Texans something to worry about, The Dallas Morning News took to Facebook for some advice. We asked Texas transplants for some tips to help us survive the snow and ice of a frigid week to help our nerves chill a bit. We received over 80 responses from people who could claim a past in colder climates, and here is where they hail from and their words of wisdom :Go slower than you think you should. No, slower. Eeeeven slower. There you go. Unless you’re going up a hill. Inertia is your friend when you’re trying to move a vehicle up an incline. See that car in front of you? Add about four times more distance between you, and slow down. You know how annoying it is when someone rides their brakes relentlessly? Be that guy.We do a lot of winter backpacking, so we have plenty of experience with cold nights! Keep eating and drinking. Your body burns a ton of calories trying to stay warm. Personally, I am eyeing the Nutella and pretzels in my cabinet right now!Turn into your slide, not against it, if you turn against it, you will do a donut .Stay off the roads. Even those of us with tons of winter weather driving experience aren’t safe to drive in winter weather here. Texas doesn’t have plows and salt trucks like they have up north, and the sand is pretty useless.You need to wear sunglasses if you are driving mid morning to mid afternoon and there is heavy snowfall outside or else you will become Snowblind as a driver. You can use Morton salt and put that down after you shovel away the snow to help keep additional snowfall from accumulating. If you don’t have Morton salt you can use water softener salt after you crush it up.Make sure you have a set of jumper cables in case your battery goes dead and you can’t start your car or get a jump box.With the outages, you are going to experience a cold house, too. Dress in layers, starting with the thinnest and getting thicker with each one. A scarf around the neck helps. If you don’t have one, then maybe tie 2 to 3 socks together. For the bed, again layers. I start with the sheets, of course, then a thin woven blanket, then a thin quilt, then a comforter. Shut doors to “extra” rooms. Stay in one room with a door to keep the heat contained. Keep shades and drapes closed, also. You can hang blankets over doorways without a door, or windows, to help contain heat. If your floors are not carpeted, you can put down blankets to keep from walking on cool floors.Pull your windshield wipers up so they won’t stick to your windshield. Make sure the windshield washer fluid has antifreeze .Not as significant in Dallas, but if you’re parallel parking on a street, try to avoid parking where it’s uphill especially if you have rear wheel drive.Wear shoes or boots that grip on slick surfaces and keep your feet under you when walking. Pretend you are in a Jack London novel, leaving nothing to chance.Let your car warm up outside for about 10 minutes and have the defrost turned all the way up before you go anywhere. Do you have advice? Let us know in the comments where your chilly point of origin and what you’d you’d love your Lone Star neighbors to know to be smart and safe in frigid weather
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