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Tamir Kalifa / AP
University of Texas at Austin students rejoice at 3:00 a.m. Friday morning Feb. 4 as one of the heaviest snowfalls in years blankets the city during below freezing temperatures.
Tamir Kalifa / AP
University of Texas at Austin students Grant Schaeffer and Victoria Zapata build a snowman in the middle of the intersection of Speedway and 24th St. at 3:00 a.m. Friday morning Feb. 4 as one of the heaviest snowfalls in years blanketed the city during below freezing temperatures.
Freezing rain was forecast overnight in southern Texas, southwest Louisiana and northern Alabama, with snow in some places. Read the full story here, or look at wintry scenes in a slideshow from the Dallas / Fort Worth area.
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The first picture reminds me of a Norman Rockwell. Great photography!
So true. I does look like a modern-day Norman Rockwell painting.
Awesome I will post soonÂ
Jeez. They act like they've never seen snow before ;-)
Umm, dude, they're in Texas. Most of them never have.
Lots of people HAVe never seen snow before. I was 15 before I saw snow, my father (who grew up in CO and WI) made sure never to take us anywhere at a time when it might snow. He hated it that much, and I grew up in CA.
These pictures look staged. Also who makes snowmen in the middle of a road? That is rude. The photograper should be ashamed. And if by chance these are real then the students should be.
Wow, Lord Auric. You seem a bit uptight.
Jeez, take a pill, guy. All I see is a bunch of kids having fun.
They are in the middle of the street in the middle of a university campus, not much traffic at 3am.
They're college students, and it's 3am. You won't find any cars on the road as it's Austin, and folks can't handle snow. Most won't even go to work with this light dusting. Furthermore that's probably part of the pedestrian only area on campus. That's right... no cars allowed. and that section of road is pedestrian only. Relax, breath, let folks that live there worry about the 3 inch snow man.
Are you a crabby old aristocratic lady whose husband left her 30 years ago and is busy controlling the lives of her kids? Because you sound like it.
Definitely a fake! The edges around the kids are too sharp. There's not enough snow in the middle of the street to make a snow man and the snows not wet enough for snow balls. I live in Mich...I know
Wow! That's heavy snow? Where I am from, that's a heavy FROST.
Yeah, but where your from, 80 degrees is a heatwave...we still wear jackets until it gets to 90. :-)
I love insecure one-upsmanship about weather. Dude, calm down and let them have fun. You're a big strong man with lots of snow, m'kay?
They look like they are having a blast! For those of you getting on here being Debbie Downers, what's with the hateful statements? Maybe some of them haven't seen snow, or maybe the snow brought out the "little kid" in them and they wanted to blow off steam from the finals that they are probably taking before Spring semester begins.
For the poster saying that building a snowman in the middle of the road is rude. Dangerous maybe, but if it is on campus, it isn't causing any harm, and it's nothing that a snowplow isn't going to come and obliterate in the morning. I live in SoCal, and I don't miss the snow and cold at all until I see pictures like these.
For those of us that rarely see snow..let alone this cold... I think it's great they are having fun and enjoying the change of weather. For those of us that hate cold and snow.. more power to them!
This is a big deal and a rare occurrence in Austin. Just seeing these kids enjoy themselves is terrific. Does Austin even have a snowplow?
I freakin' love snow...but where i'm at now we don't get near enough! Great seein' these guys having a crack at it - lotsa fun!
I would happily send you 230 inches or so every winter if I could!
This minor by Yankee standards of course - but it's VERY rare that it snows as far South as Austin where the UT Campus is located. Dallas will usually get a dusting of snow in the winter - but rarely more than an inch or two.
So yes - this was a big deal for the kids at UT. They look like they are having a blast.
It was 80 degrees in Austin on Sunday and will probably be 70 by this Sunday. So yes, this was a big deal even for those who have seen snow. My son was one of them. Campus police came and moved them off the streets. But at 3 am, the danger was in sliding down a hill on a trash can lid into a fixed object, not traffic.
Dallas has some nasty full of themselves people...this New Yorker has been there many times...therefore in closing, might i say, screw Dallas and the ladies and gents who think its in fashion to wear big stupid hats and hubcaps around there waist....yah hoo and getty up !!!!!
Yeah, and I lived and worked in New York for 2 years, and it was the worst experience of my life. Horrible, rude, mean-spirited people, and the job really sucked, too. Not to mention taxes and lousy weather. I'll take Texas and the DFW area any day!
Flyss,
I lived in NY for a year. I was born and raised in the South, and I will take the yah hoo and giddy up over the arrogance, rude, nasty, presumptuous, narcissistic, nasally voice any day of the week.
Snow men, snow bunnies, snow angels--get over it--s'no business of yours. 'Sides I think you're jealous!
You really haven't lived until you have made a snow angel! Nice pictures. I know students at Michigan Technological University in the past have sent snowballs to a Texas university for a snowball fight. It used to be part of their Winter Carnival activities.
That is probably the saddest attempt at a snowman I have ever seen !!.... I guess not EVERYTHING is big in Texas !!
Wow, whatwouldjamesdo1 You might be insane.