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

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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...

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I only experienced snow in College Station once in my life, so I can't really remember what it was like, but Dallas is just like Austin, but gets snow/ice once a year. I remember in high school that my health teacher was the basketball coach that had just gotten plucked out of somewhere in El Paso, and really liked me because one of my best friends was on the team and I was the only kid in that class that seemed like I could graduate college. Anyway there was a report of an inch or two of snow overnight, and he started getting flooded with emails, and kept telling everyone it was going to be fine. He called me over to just sort of ask if the parents were being overreactive freaks(this was in Plano, afterall) or if there was something he was missing.

We have a few salt trucks throughout the cities, but they really just focus on overpasses. What's really annoying is if they salt/sand the overpasses the night before and it doesn't end up hitting, and then it is just an obnoxious dust that sits on the highways for a week or two.


In Dallas, what might be a little different in Central Texas/Austin/College Station region is the tendency for it to ice as opposed to snow. From what I have heard, this is the primary reason, aside from shadiness, why the Fiesta Bowl was selected over the Cotton Bowl in the BCS.

What I also think is funny is this building in Downtown Dallas:



It is a really cool looking building, and really helps the Dallas skyline to be unique and distinguishable, but the slants have unintended consequences when it snows/ices on the street in front it, just dumping massive amounts of snow on it. I