Happy Michigan NSD God (Weather)?

Submitted by lilpenny1316 on

There is a pretty major snowstorm setting up for Tuesday going into Wednesday which has the potential to dump a lot of snow and freezing rain from the Midwest through the Northeast.  And we all know NSD is Wednesday.  Could one of the emotional football dieties be throwing us a bone?

Am I overstating this?  Maybe the opportunity to be home following all the action as opposed to acting like we're "working" at the job is not that big a deal.  I think it's pretty awesome.

Also, could a bunch of us being home potentially crush the server to epic proportions?  I really don't want to watch Tom Lemming all day long for my info.

wlubd

January 30th, 2011 at 11:15 AM ^

You are tempting fate my friend, implying that Michigan God will be happy on such an important day. As penance, please kill a kitten at your earliest convenience, so as not to anger our beloved, yet oft-hated deity.

919 Brown

January 30th, 2011 at 11:17 AM ^

Ugh..

* HEAVY SNOW IS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE WATCH AREA WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR TOTALS IN EXCESS OF A FOOT BY WEDNESDAY EVENING. THE HIGHEST TOTALS WILL LIKELY BE FOUND TOWARD THE INTERSTATE 94 CORRIDOR.

* NORTHERLY WINDS WILL RAMP UP INTO THE 20 TO 30 MPH RANGE WITH HIGHER GUSTS TUESDAY NIGHT...CONTINUING INTO WEDNESDAY. CONSIDERABLE BLOWING SNOW IS EXPECTED WITH BLIZZARD CONDITIONS POSSIBLE.

* WHITEOUT CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY.

* SIGNIFICANT ADJUSTMENTS IN TRACK AND INTENSITY ARE STILL VERY POSSIBLE WITH THIS SYSTEM. PLEASE CONTINUE TO MONITOR LATER FORECASTS."

Note to self:. Self, replenish beer supply today.

MGoSoftball

January 30th, 2011 at 12:01 PM ^

to stay home and watch ESPNU.  I will stay late on Tuesday to get my shit together and "plan" on taking Wednesday off.  I will throw a NSD party (pre-superbowl).

My luck, it will turn to rain and I-94 will be clear sailing.

Don

January 30th, 2011 at 12:40 PM ^

Keep in mind the media hot-air effect: as the pre-storm panic and hysteria on the part of local news stations and weathercasters increases, the great clouds of their eye-bugging, CO2-laden yammerings become weather systems themselves, which in turn greatly decrease the intensity of approaching snowstorms, if not drive them off altogether. The greater the panic, the smaller the snowfall.

The storms to fear are the ones that catch the weatherscreamers with their pants down. If there are no idiot reporters out on location in a winter parka warning us about the impending snowpocalypse, that's when you know we're going to get hammered.

Mich_Faithful

January 30th, 2011 at 12:43 PM ^

 


Tuesday: A 50 percent chance of snow. Cloudy, with a high near 22. Northeast wind between 10 and 16 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. 



Tuesday Night: Snow. Low around 15. Blustery. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 5 to 9 inches possible. 



Wednesday: Snow. High near 22. Blustery. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible. 

MH20

January 30th, 2011 at 1:45 PM ^

I have a mandatory staff meeting on Wednesday that I cannot miss.  I was planning on taking the day off to follow coverage and be geeky/creppy with everyone else, but alas I will have to follow along at work throughout the day and on the phone during this two-hour meeting.

However, I do work at a college so there is always the chance that they close for inclement weather.  I will now hope for that (while not actually hoping for it, because if you get your hopes up for a snow day you will be undoubtedly crushed).

BlueBarron

January 30th, 2011 at 2:19 PM ^

Well I'm sure not taking the Commuter North to lecture on Wednesday. If I'm gonna die in a skidding bus, I'd rather not be spooning with 50 other people at 9am while it happens.

tdcarl

January 30th, 2011 at 8:17 PM ^

Walking to class at 9am on Wednesday is going to be a blast in a foot of snow. The last time UM got a snow day was 30+ years ago and it took 19 inches to shut it down.

Soulfire21

January 30th, 2011 at 8:59 PM ^

That was debunked in the daily,

From the article:

"contrary to campus legend, there is no policy forbidding the University from cancelling classes.

The myth that classes can't be canceled because a distraught Law School student sued the University for a day's tuition following a snow day in the 1970s is unfounded, said Dave Reid, the University's director of human resources communications."

http://michigandaily.com/content/why-doesnt-university-have-snow-days

Blazefire

January 30th, 2011 at 10:45 PM ^

So I sure as heck hope things don't get shut down. I've got to get out of that monotonous craphole I'm in right now and somewhere where I have at least a chance of some sort of upward mobility.