An Artic Front

We have made it to south Texas, and along with all of the natives, we are suffering with "extremely" cold weather! (We almost had to put away the short sleeves!) As you can see from this morning's newspaper headline, these Texans are getting a real taste of a cold, hard winter with temperatures dropping all the way to 35 degrees overnight.

Here is the excerpt from the newspaper that accompanied this picture of a bundled up construction worker:

"I didn't even want to go out and get my paper, it was so cold (Monday) morning," Harlingen resident Omar Lopez said. "I had to dust off my old sports coat just to go out and get the paper."

Lopez was one of many who traded Sunday's short-sleeved shirts for Monday's heavy coats, hats and gloves as temperatures dropped below the 40-degree mark.

Drivers were dealing with the arctic weather that can make for slippery spots.

We'd like to assure our family and friends back in Nebraska that even though we have abandoned them during their -6 degree temperatures this week, we are "suffering" through our own acrtic front down south!

(For goodness sake, it almost hit freezing!)