Winter Hell in South Texas

Lookatthat. There were literally icicles on everything, even our unheated barn but as you've said, I'm sure the house has heat-loss issues. Thing is, this is south Texas where the friggin house is supposed to have heat-loss issues cause it's supposed to be friggin hot here. That's how come the house has ten foot regular ceilings and about a twenty foot high cathedral ceilings in the living room. It's built to disperse heat here, where really cold days are rare. This winter blast set records no one dreamed of. Yeah we might get a day or so when we need a heavy jacket, might get a little ice or a little snow just for effect but seven days of that is ridiculous this far south. The game ranches here lost literally thousands of exotics that had been thriving for forty years. We had dead axis and blackbuck all over the ranch I burned our little pile of"cold weather fun fire firewood" in a day and a half which is about the longest we ever have to burn a fire and that's usually because the heat pump sometimes breaks down in cold weather. Usually we still have power. Learned my lesson and now I have a monster firewood pile and will lay in more *L*. I used to love shooting black powder but I ain't no Jeremiah Jackson.

You know, for awhile in college I was studying weather and climate cause I wanted to be a weatherman in the Air Force. Back then, about 50 years ago, the prediction by my professor ( who was an expert) was not global warming. The prediction then was in forty or fifty years we were going to go back into a little ice age. That would be just about now. Man oh man I hope he was wrong!