What a way to welcome all of our Super Bowl guests to Dallas. A wintry mix of ice and snow that shut down our schools and many businesses. I've been in Dallas since the mid-1980's, and this is the coldest that I can remember it being during the daytime. It was 18-20 degrees which isn't that bad, but it was 0 degrees with the windchill, and wind gusts of 30 to 40 miles per hour. However, something tells me that it still feels balmy to the people coming in from Green Bay and Pittsburgh for the game.
With wind gust of 40 miles per hour, I was chasing my frost cloth all around our vegetable garden in the morning. Even with 10 bricks holding them down, they still kept breaking free.
This is not the most exciting of videos, but it gives you a feel for how the wind was blowing on Tuesday:
I also had another experience in why you never trust the weatherman. I left the frost cloth off of the vegetable beds to take advantage of the rain that was to fall on Monday evening. It wasn't supposed to get to freezing temperatures until noon on Tuesday which would give me time to put the covers up before work. Instead, I awoke early Tuesday morning to an inch of ice and snow, and the rolled-up frost cloth was frozen in big chunks. It took me forever to unroll them.
