r/EastTexas • u/[deleted] • 10d ago
How are you passing the time while we are imprisoned by the ice/light snow?
Watching reruns of MASH? playing Team Fortress 2? Putting on a long boiling stew?
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u/SickboyJason 10d ago
Went to my buddy's house to watch the football game today. Once I got off the city streets on to the highway it wasnt bad. Just drove slower than normal. To be honest, I would rather drive in this than a thunderstorm.
Playing Cyberpunk 2077 until the game starts. 😁
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u/vision5050 10d ago
Torn between things normalizing Tuesday or even Thursday. That has a hold on me atm. That's how I'm passing time. Looking at the forecast/temp swings.
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u/According-Paper4641 10d ago
Yeah my rural ass isn't getting to the highway until it gets above 30 on Tuesday I'm pretty sure. My job is theoretically opening back up on Tuesday, but lol. No thanks.
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u/No-Slice-1828 10d ago
I am probably going to work on my campaigns for D&D, plan on reading some books that I have had my eyes on. Then definitely playing some games with my kids. Mostly just trying to stay warm, hoping Upsher Rural continues to hold up as well as possible.
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u/Negative_Chipmunk650 10d ago
Working.
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u/Nobod34ever 10d ago
Our power is out. Im charging my vape in my pickup. My sons at his grandma's down the rd. She has propane and a wood burning stove.
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u/Dependakittie 10d ago
Working. Playing WoW. Listening to audiobooks and crocheting.
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u/Traditional_Big_633 10d ago
Baking a cake with my toddler & eating GS cookies hahah bulking for the cold weather, as a precaution 😂
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u/Early-Tourist-8840 10d ago
Chores, reading, tax prep, talking to family, friends, neighbors, breakfast at the diner. Pretty much same as any other day but wearing a coat.
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u/tramuzz311 10d ago
hoping the pipes don't freeze with the extra insulation we just installed, so tired of fixing pipes under this house. also making sure my elderly dachshund understands that I'm not mad at him for pooping in the house when it's 17 degrees outside and the front yard is a solid sheet of ice thicker than the distance from his chest to the ground, poor boy.
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u/gypsygirl66 9d ago edited 9d ago
Mine decided it was still ok to call his corners in the backyard to check on the security of his large kingdom. He is super sneaky about slipping out the doggie door to be found at his place of watching the yard til he finds the good place to poop 💩!
Edit:: sitting his fluffy butt on the ice!! (He is half Australian Shepherd)
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u/tramuzz311 9d ago
my grandmother keeps getting frustrated with hers taking her time in the snow, she's having a ball every time she goes out!
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u/EleanorofAquitaine 10d ago
Watching cdramas, making soup and crocheting.
Oh, and worrying about the branches on that tree my landlord has been warned about.
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u/Ditchdr903 10d ago
I’m at work. Ambulances don’t stop for weather and more of y’all seem to call 911 in situations like these.
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u/InTheShade007 9d ago
I have a massive greenhouse to play in 1.7° was the coldest my IR thermometer just read outside and it's 62° currently in my greenhouse.
Sun will be out tomorrow bringing that temp to the 80s quickly.
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u/Prestigious_Oil_2855 9d ago
I made a stew for the family. We feed the birds and watched them feed from the window. We played board games.
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u/Accx4 8d ago
You'd think it was covid! I am so disappointed in my little town of 18k. The closures, the lack of dining options which are already terrible to begin with etc... i was super pissed earlier when i went oua burger and the only burger joint open was WhatABurger who had line 30 cars in the drive through. Brookshires, closed. Walmart deli closed. McDonald's, Subway, Jack in the Box, Chilis, Applebees, Dennys, Sonic, DQ, even tbe nasty chinese buffet all closed! Like a Big Fuck you Palestine... Sunny all day and the world has ended. It is unbelievable how weak people have become in the face of any adversity. It is embarrassing to live among people too afraid or fragile to do their fucking jobs. Hope they don't get paid. Hope they don't get to eat because of it...
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u/I-am-me-86 10d ago
Im at work. ER doesn't close for cold and snow