Everything closed down today due to the weather. Absolutely everything did.

Schools were closed for the day, people were told not to commute anywhere unless they had absolutely no other choice… and I mean, this is Texas. We almost never shut down for this kind of weather because we almost never have this kind of weather. None of this is going to stop me from wanting to move away though.

Right now the Internet is lagging something fierce, which I absolutely despise.

As for everything else, Texas is pretty much closed for the rest of the weekend. Cancun Cruz took a plane out of the state to… you guessed it, a warmer place since he has the privilege. I’ll just keep watching the news.

I had to make this a bit larger than it wound up being when I… downloaded it, but I mean, it does fit! I like it!

We’ve had a few of these over the last year alone.

Anytime Sen. Ted Cruz leaves the state I just know it’s going to get cold.

So at this point, I’m just waiting for the weather to get colder here.

At one point, it was speculated that we would have the same bad weather today that we had yesterday… but for some reason (one that I am not complaining about), that hasn’t actually come to pass. I am willing to take our wins wherever we can get them if it doesn’t mean that we have to go through city sirens again — yeah, that actually happened — or the risk of a tornado touching down… somewhere in the area. One day though, I’d like to move out of “tornado alley” if at all possible, and that’s actually for numerous reasons.

We’ve been having storms go through here because of the storms that have been crossing the country.

So that’s been fun… and by that I mean not, since we had lightning coming down all around us at one point.

Apparently we’re supposed to get the same exact treatment tomorrow, which doesn’t surprise me as much as it mildly confuses me regarding the near twenty-four hour break in such severely inclement weather. Then again, we have as many Republicans as we do who neither believe in climate change nor are willing to vote for anything even remotely “green”, so should I be surprised about this? California is getting snow. New York isn’t seeing snow. Luckily our power remained on tonight, which I did not completely expect, but it remains to be seen if it will tomorrow as well. I kept my phone on the charger at 100% in case we lost power so that we had, and maintained, some kind of point of contact, and I kept Bub’s AAC device on the charger whenever he wasn’t using it, as long as he would let me, as soon as the first warning crossed my phone. It is what it is.