Dallas has had decent amounts of snow and ice for the past five years I’ve lived here. This year has actually been the outlier — today’s ice storm is the first time we’ve had a serious bout of cold weather this winter.

Basically, y’all, Texas isn’t just like in the joke postcards in the tourist traps. We have cold weather, we don’t ride horses everywhere, it’s not all a cartoon desert with cacti and buzzards and grizzled prospectors.