"All dressed up and no place to go..."

Poor Dallas... This was supposed to be THE year for them to shine... welcoming people from across the nation to one of Texas' finest cities, for one of the biggest 'parties' of the year - Superbowl. And being from Texas, I can tell you this weather is soooo rare, that it's the worst in 100 years. I talked to my niece in Dallas today who is a school teacher, and she said this is the FOURTH day they've been off from school this week. As a matter of fact, schools were out today in Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Corpus Christi and Dallas. This is unheard of!!

All of the best laid plans have been spoiled all week from the nastiest norther in my life, and possibly on record. It truly has been the Perfect Storm... Last weekend and through Monday, we were in the 70's, and it was spring-like. Then Bammo!! This front blew in with more force than I've ever heard, and I'm not exaggerating. It was scary wind, and unlike other fronts, the temperature has never really risen all week, and isn't supposed to break above freezing until tomorrow. Only a day before the Big Day.

And DFW is trying their hardest to accomodate all of these scheduled planes in this wicked weather, but we're just not prepared for this kind of ice for this long. And today, several people were injured, two seriously, from falling ice off of the new Cowboy stadium (and home to this year's Superbowl.)

At my first job out of the University of Texas, at the Dallas Times Herald, a man that sat across from me in national advertising had been outside in his car on the street (our office building was in downtown Dallas) and this HUGE block of ice fell off of the TV tower next door, and landed three feet in front of his compact car. I remember him saying, that just a few more feet and he would've been killed for sure. I said, "Chuck, it wasn't your time yet." (Ironically he died in his sleep a month later...) But it was a nasty ice storm in the seventies, and power lines were so heavy with ice, that it was knocking everyone's power out. But IT only lasted a couple of days. This storm? It's timing with the Superbowl is catastrophic... I cannot imagine the money that has been lost this week...

Maybe bad karma from the stripper all call??!