re: Your first impression on A&M and Mizzou after joing the SEC

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Okay what does "much" mean? Growing up in Dallas I expected one snow/ice event per year that essentially shut everything down. The city wouldn't pay for massive amounts of trucks for a half inch of ice one day a year, and no one had any earthly idea how to drive in it. If it ever just snowed, it never really stuck to the roads.

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Currently living in Central Texas and having lived in Dallas a bit but having grown up in Columbia, Missouri, I can speak to this. The answer: by the standards of your region, in Missouri it absolutely snows a shite ton. And even more freezing rain/sleet than snow. And even more freeze your arse off weather even in times when its not snowing or freezing rain. Mind you this is confined to winters only, and Missouri summers though not as bad as Texas can get, can still get really damn bad and humid. But I've seen the city of Austin shut down just because there will "be snow" of any kind meaning if there are a few flakes with no accumlation its "OMG! SHUT..DOWN...EVERYTHING!" and I'm sure College Station is same way.

In Columbia, Missouri we have the salt trucks and it takes pretty much an epic blizzard (which does happen now and then) for the schools and businesses to actually close. I don't think the climate really changes all *that* much by time you get down to Sprangfield Misurrah, but I will defer to my Sensei Mr. 'Kills on that.

Man, now instead of Death Burger I want me some Sprangfield Missurah Chinese Cashew Chicken. Them thar's some good eats. Ozark meth-heads and Chinamen sharing recipes, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria...