By tomorrow morning I might be dead….
People are predictably freaking out, the weather guys on local TV are giddy with excitement.
When we lived just south of the Mackinac Bridge in the northern lower peninsula of Michigan, 4-8 inches of snow wouldn’t even be cause for cancelling school. Around here, it is cause for some caution and fortunately I have nowhere to go today or tomorrow.
I will say this, this is pretty unusual weather for the last few years for the last weekend of November. It bodes ill for the winter, it has been mild here for a number of years in a row but back not that long ago we had some stretches where it stayed below zero during the day so I could do the “throw a cup of hot water in the air and it freezes before hitting the ground” trick. We are due for a bad winter.
Snow is starting soon. Good bye cruel world.
Heh, yeah. Same sort of reactions in my AO today. Have maybe 3″ of wet sloppy snow on the ground right now, and already have one major interstate closed due to semi’s being “stuck”. Windy and just over the freezing mark at the moment. I do get the bad feeling the long established pattern has shifted here, and we are looking at a return to the sort of winters we had in the 70’s and early 80’s, including a lot more snow earlier in the season, along with greater likelihood of damaging ice storms.
For the last 2-3 decades, it had become typical here for there to be no accumulating snow at all until January or even February some years. And most of the time accumulations we re pretty light, with the occasional several inches worth. The last really serious single snowfall was in 1982, about 18-20″, which shut down everything here for days. I really don’t want to have to do with that shit. Just a few inches worth is already enough to severely impact traffic, as most people are idiots who cannot handle driving in it.
Me, BCE and Filthie get dibs on your guns and stuff.
yeah every year when the first snow fall arrives the stupid drivers have to relearn how to drive.
Just a darn minute here, Poli! Who invited YOU to the party?
I think I made it quite clear to everyone that if any wealthy bloggers passed on – I was the sole beneficiary and heir to the gun collections. AND to the estates of frequent visitors and friends of said bloggers…
This is MY grift! You and Tiny can just keep on movin’…😡
I remember, as a kid in the 70s, when we got our usual multiple blizzard winters we’d miss a couple days of school, go sledding, shovel sidewalks and push old American 2wd (that’s what %95 of our parents drove) cars out of the snowdrifts. Panic? Nope. Starve? Nope. Crash and die? Nope. What the fuck is wrong with modern Americans?!
Waiting for the picture of the weatherman buried in snow while the cameraman is in shorts and tee.
We quit watching the weather when they made it like the crime shows “This program has been dramatized for TV”.