280 sanding trucks patrol the streets of Dallas County, but the thin sheet of ice closed us down. Dallas ISD did the right thing — and it turns out that DISD’s closing for weather is so rare that every other institution we work with keys off of them, knowing that means fewer shutdowns. But today, ice, no dice.
Sorta like this 2009 photo of north Dallas, but without the pretty sky, with duller ice, and more cold. Lauren Allen is a professional photographer -- did she add in the nice sunrise? (Buy the photo and see!) It doesn't look so treacherous as it is; not seen in the photo: an estimated (by me) 24 jackknifed 18-wheelers on I-635, just a few blocks away.
So, five days to Super Bowl, and Green Bay and Chicago Pittsburgh fans can’t fly to Dallas because of ice. I imagine fans already here a jumping up and down in their $500-a-night hotel rooms, incredulous that such a thin sheet of cold stuff is keeping them holed up like naked mole rats. Host city events in Fort Worth and Dallas are cancelled for today, and maybe for much of the rest of the week.
Son James, at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, is just three degrees colder, but missing the ice and wind we have. His windchill isn’t so great as ours. Windy City, you ain’t seen nothing like the winds of Texas. Usually they don’t blow so cold, though.
Our front gate is frozen. The lock won’t budge. We’ll have to snowshoe from the backyard to get the newspaper.
Global warming deniers are dancing with glee. They think the fact that we’ve got Arctic weather means warming isn’t happening, forgetting to look to the Arctic, which is eerily warm.
But it’s all cool. No school!
Posted by Ed Darrell 
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