I was duck hunting with a guy on Caddo lake and the lake had frozen over.

We left Johnson's Landing before daylight in a john boat moving real slow so ice wouldn't rip the hull.

Even so our tiny wake caused large blocks of ice to collide with a deep resounding Booooom.......Booooom.

That was one of many memorable hunts on I had on that lake.

I may be off a little on the year, winters seemed to be colder when I was a kid but 83 would have been about the right time. Grew up south of Wichita Falls, we didn't have central heat and our house was pier and beam. Me and my brother shared a room and a full sized bed. We literally spooned because it was that damn cold and there would be ice on the inside of the windows when we woke up. Hop out of bed in the morning to go to school and haul [censored] to the dining room where Dad would have the wood stove going to heat up. Go chop hole in the tank so calves could drink and haul water out of the house to the chickens. Not sure how many miles I walked following his truck and and a homemade pickup bed trailer tossing dead mesquite stumps and pieces in. We didn't need a chainsaw for most of it.

Everything froze, Lake Arrowhead and all our tanks. We played cow hockey hockey where we'd team up and kick frozen cow [censored] around the tank. It was cold, really cold.

Cold weather clothes? We wore our regular stuff with long johns underneath. My kids say that I don't feel cold, its not true and I'm not that tough. I do like to say them though - "heck, I've been cold - this ain't cold" That is the truth when it comes to winter around here these days . That's fine, keep the cold [censored] up north, I'll take 100 plus degrees over it any day of the week.

I remember the one in 89 much better. I was a Sophomore in HS in 89 and remember getting 4 days off from school. Buddies and I spent days in the mall parking lot doing donuts.

It was 0° here on Christmas morning. Had to chop ice on stock tanks with an axe. Rode 3-wheelers on the stock tanks.

Same for me but in a chemical plant in Longview, Tx. Two weeks of free food in the company cafeteria, made lots of money on overtime. The dang towers all froze up, had to steam trace the steam tracing. We even attached steam hoses to the point sections on the cranes and they went up and down the columns trying to thaw them out.

Dang! lol

My uncle retired from Eastman about 2 years ago now. Best I can remember he started there mid to late 80s.

Schools were closed so Dad and Grandpa made me go out with them and survey some lots.

Probably with my high school girl friend in her white 65 mustang, just laying in between the bucket seats.

8th grade, Mills county. We had just moved there in August from the coast. Three days running the lows were 2, 5, and 8. It broke every pipe in our house. By the time we called the only area plumber, he was six weeks out. Had to carry buckets from the well house 50yds to the house to bathe and cook.

Yep, 400 megawatt power plant in Carlos, Tx.
Anything that could freeze pretty much did.
I got called out for relief on the second day and ended up staying for about 5-6 days straight.

My son was just over a month old and we were contemplating going out of town for the holidays and I went to look out the front window to see how bad the roads were only to find that they were bone dry. What? There was no overnight warm front and the road was icy the day before. What happened?

The weatherman later that evening explained that it was so cold that the roads literally freeze dried during the night. I couldn’t believe it. Crazy stuff.

I was working and living in South Korea, a little place called Osan Air Base... it was cold there too.

Fixing broke heaters. Trying to pay for Christmas. Thankful I had work.

On a humerous note. Took my wife's car to bring my grandmother to stay with us through cold snap. Road were a starting to get slick, so I buckeled the seat belt, this was before the seat belt laws. Well, there was a dime in the buckle and it would not unlatch. Had cut it with my pocket knife. Of course I had replace it to pass inspection.

I was snowed in just north of Durant OK at my grandparents ranch. I was little but I do remember the snow being piled up on the north door 3 to 4 feet. I have a picture somewhere of my grandmother and I digging in the snow to make snow cream.

Freshly married since May and still honeymooning. I was either hunting, working, or had a bottle of bubbly on the porch chillin! Yes, you had to drink it purdy quick or it would freeze...Man, that was the life!

This week will also be one to remember 30 years from now.

Moving from Mineola to Uncertain. Caddo was frozen

ARE YALL SERIOUS? You really remember for sure which event? I remember some weather like that but im not positive the year. My weather memories are always of hunting it seems.
I remember pulling into gas station in Sheffield while going to hunt our longtime lease south of Bakersfield. The Longhorn A&M game was on the teeny TV in there and the Aggies just kicked off and Texas fumbled the kickoff in the snow(what year was that).
Another trip about that year going to Ft Stockton again in my S10 going through that curve just outside on London there was ice and I remember that S10 was almost out of control all the way through it. Later that weekend I killed a buck when I was so covered in ice and that buck had ice all over him.
A different year but we were the first to ever hunt the Buckle L(I was told) in about 92 and it got into single digits and we were in tents. I remember well, it was Thanksgiving Day, and I drove from ETx to Albany and then on up to the lower Panhandle and it was a massive ice storm on the roads the entire way. Sane people were not on the road that day but our whole group came in from all over.

When lakes freeze over in Texas you tend to remember that stuff.

I for sure remember this one. Dug into the drifts in the front yard and had a complete snow cave. -60 Wind chills and Hurricane force winds are no joke.

Great Blizzard of 1978

I vaguely (I think so anyways) the 83 deal. But it's probably pictures. We were living in royse city had a little white dog that the snow was taller than it was. I remember it bouncing through nthe snow.


The 89 deal we were living in rockwall. I remember my stepdad picking someone up that was stranded on 30 bridge and them staying at our house for a night until someone came and got them.

Yeah, we're serious. The trick is to put it in context with something else.

Winter '73-"74 snow/ice storm in Dallas: Three days no school. My family had real sleds so we didn't have to use trashcan lids or cardboard.
Spring '79 Wichita Falls tornado: Junior in HS we sat in English class watching the weather blow through
Hot as Hell Summer '80: I had just graduated HS. One of my buddies was from Wisconsin and he didn't know it could be that hot for that long.
December '83 storm: see my earlier post.

Yeah, 89 was colder. Here are the yearly temps in Dallas...

https://www.currentresults.com/Year...xtreme-annual-dallas-low-temperature.php

Senior in high school in 83 and remember lake o the pines freezing over and never got above freezing for quiet a few days. Also a lot of the squirrels we killed that fall had a layer of fat on them and have never seen that again. Also coon hunted with a guy that had some really good dogs and dur ing that cold snap dogs never struck a trail we think they hibernated dur ing that cold snap.