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  This is talking about flights to/from Texas, where he is not to begin with.
context: Y'all have had more winter this year than my part of Iowa. >
  
  Seriously, it’s almost 60 in North Carolina today >
  
  Just got our first snow that stuck today in NYC >
  
  …for 2023, or since last fall?? >
  
  NJ here, Got just enough to stick for the morning and was gone by noon..... Only snow we've had since last year. >
  
  This is insane. I lived in Hoboken in 2016-spring 2018. I looked up info on weather before I moved there, and was really disappointed we didn’t get more snow (based on prior years). But we still got more snow than this! >
  
  I've lived in NJ my entire life. This is absolutely eerie. >
  
  It is very creepy. I am in RI. I’m 36 this year and I have a 9 year old son. The last winter in which we got a ton of snow was 2014 and it wasn’t normal. It was from weekly/biweekly nor’easter storms that dumped 6-12+ inches each storm. He was 2 that year and I don’t think he remembers it.
  Last year we got a blizzard that dumped like 30 inches of snow and that was pretty much it. But the couple years before that we hardly received any snow.
  I now feel like an old crazy grandpa telling my son stories about how there would be snow on the ground from November to March. We even got enough snow on April 1st one year to have a snow day.
  This winter going along with the recentish weather trend of mostly mild days with rain instead of snow is making it pretty easy now to experience the real effects of climate change.
  It’s gonna get cold for 2-3 days (if even) then go back to 50+ degree weather. 
  It honestly feels like winter has just fizzled out and now we get extended autumn’s and springs.
  The summer’s are getting hotter too. It would average 80-85 degrees around here during the summer. For the past few years the average temperature feels like 95+ degrees. 
  I grew up without air conditioning and just used open windows and fans to cool off at night for sleeping. Yes there were heatwaves but that was it, a wave of heat.
  Now living without air conditioning is a torture and deadly for some.
  However a silver lining of climate change is all the new science! As the permafrost melts we are discovering amazingly preserved things from the past like the wooly mammoth! >
  
  Snow days? Can’t be Warwick >
  
  No it’s foster gloster >
  
  SW been cancelling flights back to TX for 3 days now, probably again until Thursday. >
  
  Southwest cancelled me. So did delta, so my girlfriend and I are gonna find a hotel for one of our layovers.
  God I wish I could rent a car >
  
  Rental cars sold out everywhere, I'm assuming? >
  
  Age requirements. >
  
  If you’re 21 or over you can at the very least rent a basic sedan. It won’t be glorious but it will be a set of wheels. States vary, but nowadays the 25 age requirement is generally only for bigger SUV’s or luxury cars. Give it a shot if you haven’t already. Better to have a Nissan Sentra than be stranded lmao. >
  
  You are correct. They charge a young driver fee, but you can rent as long as you’re 21. >
  
  I wonder if they've winterized their power grid after the last 100 year storm 2 years ago. >
  
  No, they just jacked all of our bills up a ridiculous amount to make sure the private companies got their money and then did jackall to fix the grid. >
  
  Freedom! Pew pew, the stars at night, are big and bright [clap clap clap clap] because the Texas grid is down again >
  
  The grid is fine.  There's plenty of excess capacity. >
  
  Your source is by the very ass-hats that are responsible for Tx shitty power grid to begin with.  You know the morons who had board members that didn’t even live in the State. Sure they got scapegoated and booted last debacle, but come on… Reliable does not come to mind.
  156k and counting without power in my County.  Sure sucks to be that 10% in a State as big a Texas.
  This time won’t be as bad cause it will warm up by tomorrow, but it is gonna suck for a lot of people. >
  
  I was replying to the person claiming the grid was down again (it's not).  Local outages due to downed wires is not the same as not having enough generating capacity to meet demand. >
  
  Generation does not matter if the transmission and distribution system cannot get the power where it needs to go. >
  
  Local failures in transmission lines are called transient faults, and do not impact the rest of the grid.  They are not "grid failures".  Local failures occur everywhere, all the time.
  A grid failure occurs when supply cannot meet demand, and blackouts are implemented to reduce the load to meet the available supply. >
  
  They are transient until they lock the line out for a permanent fault. >
  
  This is the 2nd day I can't leave my house near Dallas.
  We had hours of sleet, so everything is simply covered in ice.  Not snow ice, but ice that you step on and the wind blows you down.
  If we had 3 feet of snow, it would be easier to deal with than 1" of ice.  Plus, we don't really have infrastructure for either.  
  UPDATE:  Now Thursday, we got a lot of rain yesterday, which was weird as it was below freezing.  All it did was help smooth the ice over even more.  Supposed to be 35 later today.  If the sun comes out I'm hopefully I'll be able to see my driveway, otherwise I'll be stuck in again.  Neighbors car was in their driveway, they were able to get it down their ramp, but even their dodge charger couldn't get back up their driveway, so they parked in the street.  My small dogs have a dog door in a window to let them go out, both at some point yesterday went outside, and got stuck and couldn't get back up the stairs so I had to let them in the back door.  I can't take my trash out, as the 2 inches of 'drift' in front of my fence won't allow the door to open, though I doubt trash is coming today anyway. >
  
  Normally, it's us Okies heading south to avoid the ice storms. I suppose y'all could come north of the Red River. It's hovering around freezing out in the Flat Part, but no precip. Might be rooms at a casino. >
  
  We wouldn't make it out of the parking lots [insert King of the Hill clip here]. >
  
  First things first. Did Ted Cruz make it to Cancun?