posted a video under the username u\/gosieg<\/a> showing himself snowboarding down Rain Creek Parkway.<\/p>\nThe first run didn\u2019t go as planned. \u201cAt first I was just going to ride down our street, but it was hard to get any speed,\u201d\u00a0Siegfriedt said.<\/p>\n
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So he upgraded. Rain Creek Parkway \u2014 a steep hill just a few blocks from his house \u2014 looked fully iced over.\u00a0Siegfriedt said he grabbed his camera and went for it, relying on muscle memory from years of running the neighborhood.<\/p>\n
Steep at the top. Flat at the bottom. Send it.<\/p>\n
If you didn\u2019t have skis, you made do.<\/p>\n
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Children sled down a hill at Murchison Middle School following a winter storm that brought rain, sleet and freezing temperatures to North Austin on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026.<\/p>\n
Ricardo B. Brazziell\/Austin American-Statesman<\/p>\n
Not everyone reached for skis or boards. For families and neighborhood adventurers, sledding became the main event.\u00a0u\/StraightRip9828 posted a photo of a kid belly-down on a sled, captioned, \u201cSledding in Cherrywood.\u201d In the replies, u\/ab_lon99 added a review: \u201cThe hill next to the church in Patterson Park was sick today. We<\/p>\n
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spent almost two hours on it!\u201d<\/p>\n
Others leaned fully into winter-sports\u00a0cosplay. In a shared video, 7-year-old Everett Dean dressed head to toe in Dallas Stars gear, skated down an iced-over residential street while taking shots at a hockey goal set up on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n
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Everett Dean dressed in Dallas Stars gear practices hockey on an iced-over residential street in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n
Matthew Odam \/ Austin American-Statesman<\/p>\n
All of this played out while Central Texas stayed locked in extreme cold. In Austin, temperatures have remained below freezing since Saturday morning and aren\u2019t expected to climb above 32 degrees until Monday afternoon. Sunshine may help melt lingering ice, but officials continue to warn that roads can stay slick even when they look clear.<\/p>\n
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Still, between weather alerts and frozen pipes, Austin found a way to have fun with it. Bridges became ski runs. Neighborhood hills turned into sled parks. Empty streets briefly looked cinematic.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t practical. It definitely wasn\u2019t safe. But it was peak Austin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parents and children prepare to sled down a hill at Murchison Middle School following a winter storm that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1223,1224,56983,12326,58566,27,7095,172,12396,12398,9181,57850],"class_list":{"0":"post-138588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-austin-texas","12":"tag-austin-things-to-do","13":"tag-ice-storms","14":"tag-snow","15":"tag-snowboarding","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-texas-weather","18":"tag-weather","19":"tag-winter","20":"tag-winter-storm","21":"tag-winter-weather","22":"tag-winter-weather-freeze-cold"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}