F*ck you Mother Nature!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I think someone needs to go buy a sled and rediscover the joys of sledding. And launching off a ramp.

Hey, if you're gonna have to deal with the crappy part of the snow, you might as well have some fun you know you love with it, right?

Sounds like a plan.

Somehow, someone felt sorry for us up here last night and we avoided the major snow. We maybe got an inch and a half. Whew!

I have a feeling we northwest Wisconsin folk won't be so lucky tomorrow. Predictions are 5-9 inches from Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning. OUCH!

Yes. I need to do my shopping TODAY while there's still road to drive on..

I still have to head out too. I'm going to go out in the morning and try to be back home before the snow starts.

Oh, as long as I'm being nostalgic I gotta tell the story of Christmas when I was in third grade, which would be 1989. On the last day before vacation started we had a really bad cold spell, like temperatures in the double digits below zero with even colder wind chills, or something like that.

School wasn't cancelled, but my parents were telling me I didn't have to go to school if I didn't want to, I could just stay home, it was so cold out and what classwork would I miss, and so on. Yes dear friends, they actually were trying to talk me out of going to school.

I wanted to go though, for the following reasons:

• We were having our class Christmas party. We had been reading Little House On The Prairie and decided to have a gift exchange, where you drew the name of a fellow student out of a hat and had to give them a handmade gift. My mom and I had spent an evening baking sugar cookies, frosting and decorating them, and putting them in a big tin to give as my gift. I wanted to be able to give it.
• We were also having our class Christmas concert and I had a big role in it. My and one of my classmates acted as narrators, telling a story and along the way the class would come in and sing a song or do a skit. We had been rehearsing it a lot and I wanted to be able to perform.

So my parents drove me to school but told me they probably wouldn't be able to come to the concert. I understood but was a bit disappointed.

So we had our party (the recipient of my cookies really liked them, BTW) and then had our concert. I entered the auditorium and looked out into the audience and saw...my mom and dad. They made it to the concert after all.

And when the concert was done we all went out to McDonalds or some other fast-food place since that was normally our Friday treat.

As I've grown older all the Christmases seem to blend together, but that one still stands out to me.

[blas]

Irv, that storm tomorrow is headed your way too? I was watching the news at noon and it looked like only the upper part of Wisconsin was going to get the Frosty treatment.......

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

/checks out Weather Bug

4 to 8 inches expected, starting tomorrow afternoon, hopefully after I finish my shopping. That's still enough.

It's still snowing lightly by me.

[blas]

3-6 predicted now for here, starting tomorrow morning.

They vamped up last night's storm so much last night that all throughout the shift last night, people took turns sneaking off to go look outside. It didn't even start snowing until after 3 am and it stopped around 8 am or so.

I'm doing all my shopping as soon as I'm done getting ready, then going out for a fun night with friends tonight, since everything will be calm and temps will be above 0 tonight for once. But tomorrow night is definetly going to be a night in with movies and pizza....no going out in that crap....maybe just to the tanning salon down the road and to the movie store down the road the other way, that's it!

If you southern Wisconsin folk ever need a break, come up here sometime. We get the lighter end of the snow most of the time. Sure, what we get is probably annoying and too much, but when I think of Milwaukee and Madison, I shudder. I'm considering moving further up north in Wisconsin where I grew up. These days during the snow storms, they only get a trace to an inch! I was up there last week for a funeral and the grass was still sticking up under the half inch or so of snow!

[Chromatix]

My weather widget is predicting, basically a white christmas. A precipitous drop from near-freezing to -12°C over the eve and day. Should be interesting, but probably doubly wise to stock up on good food beforehand!

[Becks]

I...I think it's snowing again.

[blas]

It sure is.....6 more inches total expected all through today.

Get. Me. Out. Of. Here.

[Racket_Man]

I...I think it's snowing again.

but nicely it was on;ly big fluffy flakes with little accumulation. I went out and did shopping but it is the Sat night into Sunday morn that worries me

[Becks]

Holy biscuit, Racket_Man...I have to start at 6 am tomorrow.

I didn't want to before, and I want to even less now.

[blas]

Yesterday was pretty brutal. I had to get some errands done by the end of the weekend, so I had to brave it. Yeah, that sucked. And the snow didn't stop till late last night/early this morning.

We get a day of relief tomorrow, but it's going to be nearly -30 with the windchills. Then 2 to 5 more inches on Tuesday. Then a break on Wednesday (maybe, for now) then more snow on Christmas, then a break on Friday, then more snow Saturday........what is with this. Ugh.

[Becks]

It's time I made a confession.

It's MY fault this winter is going along like it is.

I don't know how I do it, but I do. I wish I didn't.

[blas]

How is it your fault?

[Becks]

I don't know. Ask the future MIL.

[Racket_Man]

I don't know. Ask the future MIL.

this I GOTTA know why.

but then again is it because you bring snow and cold and ice or just because you moved back here?

yup blas more snow on Tuesday/Wed. and then more possible over the next week.

Dang it STOP for a while. I wanna get to St. Louis in one piece after New Years

AND it looks like we are NOT going to have that just after New Year thaw this time around

[blas]

Ugh, gosh dammit all to HELL!

Tuesdays snowstorm decided it wants to come early. Should be a fun drive home tomorrow morning from work.....3 to 5 more inches overnight tonight. IT WILL NOT FUCKING STOP! Geez....22 days into December and we're pretty much 1/4 of the way to last year's snowfall totals.

Make. It. STOP!!!!! I'm so sick of this "one day" breaks from snow. I am so tired of driving in this....having to leave early, break my fingers off scraping my windshield....my windows being frozen, my locks being frozen.....

I can't quit whining. I know I have no control, but this is just bullshit.