Cold

One of the nice things about living in the South is that extremely cold weather is a rarity.  Here in Spring Texas, we didn't even get below freezing last Winter.

But last night, it got cold. really cold.

I haven't been outside to check the pipes yet, but I took the precaution of letting them trickle all night hoping that would keep them from freezing in the predicted "27°" weather.  

The problem is, their prediction missed by a mile because this morning we woke to what is probably record-breaking low temperatures:

I'll update this later but right now I'm just thankful to have a warm house and toilets that flush.