[Tobra]

Don't forget to protect your pipes, put a light out by your fruit trees. I always liked the big, old school Christmas lights for that. Wind it around the trunk. You might lose a few branches in a hard freeze, but you probably keep the tree.

I remember the first time that happened to me when I lived in the Piney Woods. Left Lake Conroe 0730 it was in the 70s and sunny, short sleeves. Wind blows out of the North for a bit and it is right at freezing and a pontoon boat has come loose from the slip when I arrive home ten hours later. Got a rope on it and hooked it up to a half ton Chevy and dragged it out the boat slip.

Soaking wet scrubs and howling, freezing cold wind is a very unhappy combination. I always kept a jacket in my car after that, always. It is amazing how fast conditions changed there, saw some very extreme weather in the decade I lived there, hundred year flood happened, twice.

Funny thing when I first moved down there. It was shortly after that Northridge quake, early 90s LA area. Everybody asked me about earthquakes, more scared of them than a hurricane or a flood. People that knew how much that sort of weather sucked first hand were really more afraid of earthquakes, lots of people. Maybe the fear of the unknown, they knew the hurricane didn't kill them, so I guess it sort of makes sense, but it always struck me as funny. Earthquake is over in a minute, hurricane lasts a whole week.