The blizzard of 21

I keep calling it this and to me it is like a blizzard. I have heard of people talking about the 'winter storm of 1983" and how this compares. Not in my books. First I have been in West Texas almost 55 yrs.

Grew up in the Trans Pecos then the last 36 yrs in the Permian Basin. I have never seen a winter storm of this magnitude, never. The temps, snow, ice etc have never been like this. Maybe the storm of 83 was in North Texas it sure as heck wasn't in my neck of the woods.

I heard someone talk about it today as well my response was that I was 1 yr old and don’t remember it.

I was born in ‘83, and I’ve always heard about it, but I can’t compare, obviously. I do get the impression that I won’t hear so much about it after this.

In my opinion 1983 was worse in Abilene, we were first covered with a 1" sheet of ice and then the snow. Snow was not as bad, but the cold was a lot colder, with some temps below zero. But we had no rolling blackouts or loss of water. Water mains busted all over town, water department men worked 24 hours a day. We had about 25,000 less people in town. People stayed at home, I got out to see a Doctor on Monday and there was more traffic than on a normal summer day.

Yeah. It’s cold out there.

Seems 83 was worse to me. It was like over 2 weeks temp never reached freezing for the highs. We were hunting some huge oat patches outside of Sabinal next to the old Coyote ranch. After 5-6 days the deer were coming for miles I guess to those patches. One afternoon I was on one side of a 40ac oat patch and bud on other side...I counted 171 deer....his count was 168 so it was pretty accurate I reckon
It was unbelievable.

I was a freshman in high school in 83 and for some reason don’t really remember that December storm. However, I do remember the ice storm that we had the end of December 78 to January of 79 which is odd since I was younger. This has been a couple of bad days and I’m sure that when we hit above freezing on Saturday and Sunday is going to be real bad around here.

Its interesting I dont remember 83 at all I dont guess. I would of been in Dallas and running 30 full service restaurants and I assume with that kind of weather we would of been closed a bunch. Closing those stores is a big deal and the worry of all those employees getting to work. I would of been primarily the one making the calls of when to open or not. I dont remember, but that mostly speaks to my memory and not the severity of the event.....
I cant imagine 83 being as bad as this.

I keep going out side thinking all the snow will be melting, but roads still covered like 3 days ago.

I had graduated HS in May. I remember it well. That one didn’t seem as bad but I was 18 and out playing in it. For this one we prepared the house and haven’t left it in five days now.

The one in the 80s was a foot of snow.

This time we got 5 inches, today we got another 2 inches so far, and its still coming.

I only remember cold weather from the December ‘83 storm, few months after I moved to Central Texas. The ‘85 winter was more memorable, it snowed 3 times that winter. 14” total. ‘89 December was brutally cold, so was ‘91. 2011 rivaled this one with cold, I was in San Saba in a 5th wheel. 9° lows.
Storm I lived through in April ‘83 in Ruidoso, NM dumped 30” the week before Easter. That was interesting.

I think this one was the mother of all blizzards.

I forgot about 89.... that year both power plants in S.A. went down because the fish swam into the intakes to stay warm.

The ice storm that hit DFW in 2013 was pretty bad. In 1983 I was too young,dumb and full of c....something, to pay any attention to the weather.

Bill, this is not a blizzard, it is a cold spell, not a blizzard.

Where do yall find that little "degree" symbol on a key board. Hate to ask stuff like that, but Im old school, low tech, and its the only way to learn is to ask.

It does not work for me on my laptop. Go to numbers. Click onto the zero, push up. A little biddy degree symbol will appear. Release. Sometimes it take my slow fingers several tries. 36°

iPad for me.

The technique : You keep the Alt key pressed, then you successively type the numbers 2 4 8 , then you finally release the Alt key, which will bring up the " degree " symbol: °

https://www.36degreesnorth.co/how-to

I was there. This is worse.
83 lasted longer but this was much colder.
The record snow here in 2010 was a mess. Tore up a LOT of trees. That was bad. I think it was 18” of snow.

I was in the air force in 83. Our biggest issue was keeping demineralized water warm. Talk about boring.

More Ice in 83
More snow in 21 and lower temp

83 was worse, they bays froze in 83. We never lost power and no rolling blackouts..

'83 was longer and much more snow, but not the Arctic temps. I was working overnights for a IT company in Amarillo and got snowed into the building. Worked 3 straight days/nights all by myself before a co-worker in a 4x4 could come get me. Lived on vending machine candy and coffee, but our computer systems never went offline. This was the event in my life that I discovered ladies bathrooms had couches. That was a life saving discovery and allowed me to take the naps I needed to power through.

cringe, this was your first post on here. Were you waiting for this perfect opportunity? I hope you chime in on other topics. Welcome.
Now back to the degree symbol...were you kidding? I couldnt get it to work and neither did Bills idea. Ill live without knowing.....

In 83 i lived in a old farm house across from the Dell Diamond, we had a well and i left the water running in the kitchen sink( just like old places the drain ran in yard with a couple of pipes) didnt check on it for a couples of days cause i was staying with my brother. The water FROZE from the drain pipes up to the sink and had ice from the sink to the faucet. To me that was worse than this and I was LOT younger.

I was a sophomore in HS. But again I was back in FS and possibly no where close to where the 83 storm hit so hard.

Gonna be a bunch of babies come November.