Complain about the weather thread

Non-Phish General
#141

I love this…

Anyway, remember when I broke a door handle while trying to open my door? Well, you’ll love this.

Anyway, yesterday it was like 10 below with the windchill in Michigan. I go to my passenger-side door (the only door I can get in) and try it to go to work…it was a little stuck…but it opened! Hurray! Anyway, it was real icy so I was only able to barely scrape my windshield. I started driving to work and I couldn’t see a thing out of the small amount I had scraped off my windshield! So I turned into a side-street about a block away from home and pulled into the first driveway I could so I could quickly scrape the windshield more.

I do it and I scrape some more and try to get back in…and the door sticks!!! It opened no more than five minutes earlier yet now it was stuck for good. Even worse, I was BARELY tugging the handle and IT BROKE TOO!! So there I am, with my car parked diagonally across some random stranger’s driveway with BOTH door handles broken and no way to get in my car or move it. What a disaster.

Anyway, I had to call into work and called a tow truck and all that (which took forever since it was icy and I’m sure they were quite busy that morning) then I drove back in a van I borrowed to put a note on the car for the poor owners of the house who found a new car in their driveway (it wasn’t TOTALLY blocking the driveway…they could have gotten one of their cars out).

Anyway, this happened at 7:30am and I didn’t get a tow truck until 1:30 in the afternoon!! Amazingly, I’m not sure if the people in the house were home or if they even noticed…I never saw any lights on and the note I left wasn’t moved. Anyway, the tow guy jimmyed the door open in about two seconds (nice to know that it’s so easy to bust into my car) and I was able to drive it to an auto-shop for repairs (and I didn’t close my door once the whole time I was there). It’ll be about $500 to repair both handles.

Holy crap…it was stressful at the time but turned out to be not that big a deal. Gotta love this Michigan weather.

Stevo

#142

Well, in anticipation of getting clusterfucked with snow, they’ve already shut the campus down for tomorrow, no classes!

#143

^
You son of a…

I don’t remember every getting classes canceled once during my four years in school.

Not a single goddamned mother fucking time.

#144

Once UDayton had an entire week of classes canceled.

Drinking ensued.

#145

It’s been in the teens for the past few days. Last night we got ~6" of snow then it warmed up just enough to sleet/rain, then cooled back down and froze on top of the snow creating a crusty top kind of like a creme brulee, but much colder. Talk about shitty weather.

#146

I am beyond complaining at this point. I’m more stunned then anything else. I’ve just never seen this much snow. And todays storm is the biggest, heaviest snow yet… not to mention the ice thats falling on top of it right now. No where to put it.

The #'s speak for themselves.

On avg. this time of year= 44"

This year= 77"

Not including this storm where we are getting another foot… thats 89" or 7 and a half feet so far this winter. SO FAR… :’(

I can see this being a record year if this keeps up. There’s global warming in my pants.

#147

Even worse are the high schools around here. They get closed the night BEFORE based on FORECASTS of snow before a drop of snow even hits the frickin ground! When I was going, they almost never cancelled school since they were desperate to not lose a precious school day. Dammit…

Where were these wimpy school officials when I was in school.

(Grumble! Grumble! Back in my day… Grumble!)
Stevo

#148

just rain here in SJ

#149

Yeah, that certainly happened when I was in HS. I think the most we missed in a two-week stretch was about 4-5 days. Which was pretty awesome, but we ended up going to school into June that year.

Since my college was a tiny private campus, we would have needed WWIII to cancel classes.

#150

more damn snow for me late fri into sunday.it sucks. ;Dthis is wheni wish i had a snow mobile

#151

:o :o

It might get to 30 degrees below zero here tonight! I’m not talkin’ wind chill…this is the actual temp!

Cripes.

#152

It’s blowing and spitting snow here early. Must have snowed a decent amount overnight.

I’m about fed up with this snow!

polishes golf clubs

#153

more snow and more below 0 temps .im ready to go back to work.i need a speed thaw. :wink:

#154

fuck this winter.

I’m done.

Be over already!

However, 3 weeks, and I’ll be in beautiful sunny florida!

Yessssssssssssssssssss

#155

The other day on the way into work the bank sign read 99------celcius! And then 179 F popped up. Something was not quite right.

#156

I can’t believe its been 9 days since anyone has complained about the weather. We’re slacking around here sumthin’ terrible.

February was the snowiest month EVER 'round these parts. Records go back to the dinosuars.

Today, the first day of March, greets us with!? … A FOOT OF SNOW! YIPPIE!

Gosh I miss snow. :’(

“Roof caving in” insurance is on the rise ‘round here but unfortunately its too late for many folks. A brand new cafe’ opened a month ago close by serving good food in a clean atmosphere… it was nice. Then the roof caved in.

#157

Normally i love the snow. But these past 2 months have just been rediculous! >:(

#158

The past few days have just been awful. It’s been sunny and 77 but really windy. I don’t know if I can take another day of this…

#159

No kidding! holy ShitE!

I just spent the last 1.5 hrs shoveling my ass off. The snow pile around the garage is up to and over the eves… the lady gets some points today as she helped.

I think I’ll buy a small camera this evening and take pics around the house so you guys can see just how utterly stupid all this snow is. ;D

#160

No need to send those pics my way.

I imagine we’ve only got a few weeks left of “snow” weather. I don’t ever remember it snowing in April.