Anyone remember cold snap of 1983?

[MBV77]

There was another time in the late 80s I think where it got below 0 here in North Texas. I remember thinking deer would HAVE to move to stay warm, so I was in a tree hunting. I was wrong! Nothing moved that weekend.

I wonder if 83 was when we had that huge ice storm. Whole town, Bonham, was without power for a long time, trees and limbs down everywhere. Sounded like gunfire all night with trees and limbs breaking.

I was thinking the same thing. I think I was in the 4th or 5th grade, maybe ‘87 or ‘88? I know we missed 4 or 5 days of school with quite a bit of snow. Dad pulled us all over Grayson county on a sled behind his truck. I can remember calling the time and temperature number and it saying -1 degrees. Only time I ever heard it say anything below zero.


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[parkchief100]

I remember in 83 me and my dad drove from Lake Worth to Weatherford to break the ice on the pond for the cattle. On the way over the 199 Jacksboro highway bridge trucks were driving out in the middle of Lake Worth lake. I thought they were crazy back then and still think that way now!

[WildThings]

Yes I remember 83 and 89. in '83 dead trout and reds everywhere

[3ChordTruth]

Here in North TX after several days of below freezing in ’83, I walked on solid ice UNDER the entire length of the Lake Worth Bridge. Parked off the Jacksboro Highway at Casino Beach on the north end of the bridge, started walking on the frozen lake ice under the bridge and then got back on land on the south end. Not the safest thing I ever did, but Lake Worth was frozen solid enough for me and a few others to be out there slip sliding around on the ice that cold morning.

[bklem]

Woke up in a hotel in El Paso on Christmas Eve morning and looked out the window at the bank across I-10 and it said 11 degrees. Didn’t want to but they made us put on our pads and play Alabama on National Tv in the Sun Bowl. Got our butts kicked. Went back to Dallas and drive to a friend of mines grandads ranch in Wimberley (Storm ranch) and spent three days hinting and chopping water troughs to keep cattle in water. Everything but the game was a blast.

[speck1]

Estes Flats froze over as well in 83. It was crazy seeing all those dead fish. Fishing was tough for years after that then it did it again in 89. We will be in Mansfield this time. I sure hope we don’t have a big fish kill. The snook population has made big strides. Don’t need a major setback now.

[rut-ro]

I was only 2. Our stock pond froze over and cows could bot drink. Had to break a hole in the ice and set a 55 gallon drum in water and keep a fire in it so the water around would not freeze and cattle could drink.

[W-O]

There were some cold freezes in the late 70's but in 83 it stayed below freezing for several days on Galveston bay. I remember the ice on the bay and all the slick roads. I was a senior in high school and myself and another guy made a lot of money when it warmed up by replacing water lines under weekend homes.

[wickll]

Yep I remember my grandpa, my dad and myself break ice on the ponds for the cattle. The first day I thought it was fun but after a few days of that it turned into WORK.

That's what I remember as well. Also remember that my sister and BIL had a relatively new home in Houston and the pipes froze in the attic.

[breadman]

remember it very well my only transportation was a kawasaki 650 motorcycle IT WAS A ROUGH WINTER.

[Razorback01]

1983, I had been in basic training at Lackland AFB in San Antonio and followed up with technical school (Crypto maint). Being on a minimal pay scale, for Christmas I decided to take the bus from SA to Hot Springs Arkansas (no Arky). It took me 2 days to make it home- the bus wouldn't make the trip from Malvern to Hot Springs, luckily a friend of mine drove over in his jeep to get me, along with a drunk old man, and a big woman. Long time ago, and good memories (somewhat). I wouldn't trade it for anything.

[TX CHICKEN]

I was 9 years old. I still remember the fish kill in the bays along the middle coast. I like a good shot of cold air from time to time but I don't like it if it is prolonged like it was in 83'.

1983 was the best summer of fishing I have ever had and the freeze killed a bunch and it took several years to get back to normal


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[basschump]

I was in Matagorda for both freezes. In 83 we were able to walk out on the bay on the south shoreline of East Matagorda Bay. The ice was very thick and went a good ways out. There were long piles of ice where the north wind buckled and stacked the ice sheet up all down the bay. The fish kill was immense. It wrecked us for several years.

In 89 I was in matagorda duck hunting. My decoys froze over and were completely covered in ice with icicles hanging off the bills and tails. It was so dang cold and the ducks wanted in there bad. I shot a pile of greenwings and headed out. The roads were all frozen over from sleet and I slipped and slided back to town. By the time I got home in Bay City our pipes have frozen and we had pipes bust all under the house. It was a huge nasty mess getting under there to fix them.

We don't need any of that.

My uncle bought a place in chinquapin after the 83 freeze. We went down quite a bit every summer. I don’t remember catching much the first few years in east bay. Crabbing was off the chart though.


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[Roy D Mercer]

Yes I duck hunted in 83 the coldest day in history in central Texas -4
Couldn’t take it for long!!
That was back when the libs were telling us we were entering the new ice age.

[kevin01]

Was living in southern California at that time but we came out to Oklahoma for my grandmothers funeral. That was some brutal temp change, I think it was in the 60's in California when we left and around 5 degrees where we went in Oklahoma. Each morning we went out with my grandfather and chopped ice on the tank so the cattle could drink.