re: are we going to have a winter storm thread?

Temp fell from 75F to 49F in 50 mins here in Katy

got up, it was 27 degrees.

had to go to grocery. car was covered in ice. went out and started it and came back in and waited for the windows to melt.

I proceeded to fool with my Sirius XM radio as I turned from a 25 mph sidereal onto the 40 mph downhill that goes out to the main highway I had to use. I look over to the right and observe that now I am driving in 2 inches of icy slush. Oh No, says I. I proceeded onto a steep downhill with long strips of black ice. (I can now look back and say, every time we get a hard rain, there is a flow over the road right there. So we can see that the rain runoff was freezing over night, then flowing over the ice.
I came along when it was 2 inches thick in places, but the road had been treated and there were bare patches. All the while I am in no man's land. At any time, the ice can be bad enough that I have no control.
I went on my way. My big moment came as I came down another icy hill and there was a VW at the bottom, picking his nose, waiting for 1000 yards of clear road to pull onto the highway. He went on. I was very glad no one was in my way.
I slid some when I pulled onto the road.

Did not go back out again all day.

Same thing tomorrow, I am sure.