Front Porch // Austin, Texas — February 15, 2021

Dispatch from the Deep Freeze

The Great Texan Gridpocalypse, as I lived it.

I know for a lot of you, snow’s probably not novel. It’s winter after all. Hell, growing up in Buffalo I saw my own fair share of it.

I saw a lot of single-digit temperatures in my day, too. I remember on a particular day in Utica — where I lived for a spell in high school — we reached negative 27 Fahrenheit…

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