KublaConn
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It snows in San Antonio once every 25 years. But when it does, an inch shuts down the place.
I lived in SA back in 1984-85, so I was there for the "Great Blizzard" of that winter, where they got something like 14 inches of snow in a 24-hour period. Talk about absolute mayhem! Like pretty much all Texas municipalities, SA definitely doesn't have the infrastructure to deal with such a situation and the driving populace has not enough experience to have developed the tools to deal with it, for sure. I remember, absent large amounts of salt and/or sand, they tried throwing down pea gravel...on ice...it was like marbles on glass. Unfortunately, the storm hit in the middle of the day on a Friday, so a lot of people were stranded at work, but at least it was the weekend, because as you said, the whole town shut down for a couple-three days. Fortunately, it's Texas, and all the ice & snow was gone within five days.