<p>Goodness…mix south central Texas with a bit of ice and snow and people get real creative. My own kids have their wake boards (they had my husband take the fins off) flying down the street and a group of kids are bowling with soup cans as pins and a Jiff container as the “ball”. Tomorrow it will be 61 so the Texas bi-polar weather never fails to surprise!</p>
<p>I think it might have been more appropriate to call it South Texas sliding. That’s what the cars are doing all over the roads here. And no snow … even though it was forecast. :(</p>
<p>I have been trying to get my dual pupose knobby tired motorcycle to work properly for the last two hours. I so want to ride to lunch in the snow. 
Quien es mas …uhhhh…macho? Enferma? Loco en la cabeza? It’s still cranked. Some safety switch is not allowing me to put it in gear without the motor dying. Time to get my hammer out to “fix” it.</p>
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<p>Hammer? Any self respecting Southerner should know to use duct tape, duh!</p>
<p>Heard from a cousin down in the valley that they actually had snow flakes and South Padre was below freezing early last night.</p>
<p>I fixed it by beating on the safety switch with a piece of deer antler. Country enough for ya? lol. OTOH, my stroll around the ranch roads was enough to convince me that uphill with one skinny drive-wheel is no bueno. So no lunch on the bike. 
But I have the pics to prove I circumnavigated the ranch in the snow. I think I still get my snowidiot badge.</p>
<p>My mother (age 67) uses duct tape to circumvent all safety switches…on most all of her equipment. I’ll have to remember deer antlers. We have those hanging in the garage. Just never know what might come in handy!</p>
<p>curm, I think that in order to earn the full snowidiot badge you also have to endanger others. Try it again pulling a neighbor kid on a trash-can lid with a rope.</p>
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<p>Sad, what happens to a man when he can’t fiddle with a lawn mower or snow blower.</p>
<p>OK, I know it’s south Texas and they’re not used to ice on their windshields, but don’t they still teach people that it’s stupid to pour hot water on ice-covered glass?</p>
<p>Was just looking through photos on the Houston Chronicle’s website, and I can’t believe the number of people who were doing this. I guess they wanted front-end convertibles.</p>
<p>My daughter was with the kids sledding on the UT Austin campus between 3 and 4 a.m. Friday. Daughter - who visits my family in Northern MN and snowmobiles on frozen lakes during Christmas break - said “We were awake at 3 am and we figured we might as well stay awake until 4 am to hear the announcement that school was closed for the day” - so why NOT go sledding? She said that two kids had actually brought ski gloves to college with them - “just in case.” :D</p>
<p>teriwtt, They probably just don’t know any better. I just hope those people don’t wind up with a cracked windshield due to being naive. Just turn on the defrosters and it’ll be done in less then 5 minutes. If you can’t wait, get creative… I like the one guy using a lid and the others using a credit cards. I see some of them do have ice scrapers. :)</p>
<p>We live in snow country and snowstorms always seem to turn teenagers and grown men into little kids!</p>