My brother in law & family lives in Dallas also, and wasn't able to go to work for a few days also. They just don't own the heavy equipment or salt for the roads down there. Very sad about your husband's uncle. This same thing happened to a nursing home patient in massachusetts a week or so ago. Lisa ----- Original Message ----- From: "juanita" <juanita2@cox.net> > My granddaughter and her husband haven't been able to go to their > offices for 4 days in Dallas because of the weather. My brother, > after living 50 yrs. in southern California, moved to the Tulsa area > a few years ago to be near his son and his family.....he went to CA > after he got out of the Navy saying he didn't ever want to live in > Kansas or Oklahoma again because of the winters. Famous last > words.....being with family meant more to him so he came back to the > midwest. > > I'll never forget 1982 in eastern Kansas when my husband's uncle > froze to death. He was in his 90's, a bachelor, and for some reason > stepped outside his mobile home, slipped on the ice and lay there all > night. The temperature was minus 24 degrees that night. He was > farming 360 acres and had 500 head of cattle - had never married nor > had children. > > juanita > > >> I was just reading the weather section in the newspaper and it isn't >> just the frozen north. The paper said Arkansas and northeast >> Oklahoma, the Tulsa area, was getting hit again with snow. That isn't >> that far north from you, or Dallas where my son lives.Emma >> >> > Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:04:24 -0600 >> > >> > when Sherry first got up, it was 45-degrees.... by 8 AM, the temp >> > was in the teens... high winds, rain, sleet w/ snow flurries...Our >> > house faces the North and the rain/sleet that blew against the storm >> > door had frozen solid... Sherry had trouble getting out because the >> > door had frozen to the door frame.. Not a good day to live in >> > Central Texas. Next week will be in the mid 70's... time to start >> > thinking about the spring garden.. for those folks in the frozen >> > North, my heart goes out to you...