How DEATHSTORM affects you and Signing Day
I work at a software company in A2 and they just announced that because of impending DEATHSTORM 2011, our office will be shut down tomorrow. This means I get to roll out of bed, curl up on the couch, flip on ESPNU and "work from home" for the day.
Anyone else's life get infinitely better because of the storm?
February 1st, 2011 at 12:39 PM ^
Let's just hope the power stays on.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:09 PM ^
February 1st, 2011 at 10:23 PM ^
I will be hanging underground with my boys 
February 1st, 2011 at 12:40 PM ^
I'm taking my laptop home and if there is more than a dusting of snow, I'm going to claim a "work from home" day.
February 1st, 2011 at 12:40 PM ^
This isn't even a blizzard. Over yonder in west Michigan, this would be considered a "dusting". But I'm going to have to go to class anyways. FU Mary Sue.
February 1st, 2011 at 12:40 PM ^
February 1st, 2011 at 12:45 PM ^
Snow isn't a white substance that will encrust on your keyboard my friend.
February 1st, 2011 at 12:49 PM ^
February 1st, 2011 at 12:54 PM ^
Capital One card?!
I use American Express Platinum.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:02 PM ^
February 1st, 2011 at 1:22 PM ^
I can use it for a cool noise maker.
February 1st, 2011 at 3:08 PM ^
it with a platinum card...what kind of snow are we talking about again?
February 1st, 2011 at 12:42 PM ^
I'm not going to die.
February 1st, 2011 at 12:44 PM ^
I don't have a car, so I don't really care about the roads, but I'd love the chance to walk to class in knee deep snow. It'd feel like I was in elementary school again. You know, when we used to get enough snow to actually go sledding and make forts and stuff.
February 1st, 2011 at 12:47 PM ^
February 1st, 2011 at 12:55 PM ^
So true. If I had a better coat and enough snow I would make such a ridiculously awesome fort. Much better than the hole carved in a snowbank from back then.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:03 PM ^
February 1st, 2011 at 1:20 PM ^
I'd be willing to bet there's a playset under there somewhere. That's cheating.
February 1st, 2011 at 12:56 PM ^
Sex in a snow fort is on m bucket list. Hoping to cross it off this week.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:06 PM ^
i hope for your sake, its on someone else's bucket list, too.
February 1st, 2011 at 4:36 PM ^
really thought you were gunna reference it as " like back in the day when my parents walked to school barefoot and uphill both ways in knee deep snow"
February 1st, 2011 at 12:45 PM ^
I'm calling 5 inches tops in Ann Arbor.
BKfinest it.
February 1st, 2011 at 12:51 PM ^
The BKfinest isn't as bold of a statement when we can't actually neg you for being wrong. I will be so disappointed with less than 2 feet of snow. The last few days have conditioned me to believe this will be the storm to end all storms!
February 1st, 2011 at 1:11 PM ^
I take the lowest estimate and divide by two, usually pretty accurate.
February 1st, 2011 at 12:46 PM ^
where we are supposed to get like 18 inches in the next 2 days, I can get to work but I might not be able to leave.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:07 PM ^
That would truly suck my friend! I hope you get snowed in at a bar or home but not at work!
February 1st, 2011 at 12:48 PM ^
February 1st, 2011 at 1:18 PM ^
I've always preferred "snowpocalypse", but I think I'm going to use chersnowbyl from now on.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:24 PM ^
Yes yes?
February 1st, 2011 at 1:49 PM ^
I'm so pathetic.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:18 PM ^
Dangit, you're right. That is the best. I'm stealing it for the rest of the week.
February 1st, 2011 at 2:31 PM ^
Snowmageddon is my coined name for this wintery shenanigans.
February 1st, 2011 at 3:40 PM ^
February 1st, 2011 at 12:57 PM ^
I was just at Kroger and I think Ann Arbor is preparing for a biblical apocalypse. There were no shopping carts and more irritatingly NO MILK that wasn't organic. Several other products were out of stock.
Paradoxically, none of those products were hot cocoa.. Mmmm.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:07 PM ^
moved to DC. She sent me a pic of the shelves in the local grocery store. There was nothing but dust on the shelves that had held bottled water. That was not for one if the recent large storms, just a few inches. She is used to it now, so she can plan, but she still gets a chuckle out of it.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:27 PM ^
When I lived in the D.C. region, we would rate snowstorms on a 1 to 5 "Bread Loaf" scale to indicate the amount of panic in the general populace that would cause loaves of bread to magically evaporate on grocery store shelves. Seriously...a 3-5" snowfall would induce a run on Wonder Bread like you've never seen.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:44 PM ^
It's still measured that way, and last year a woman almost broke through the glass of the Whole Foods in Logan Circle because she NEEDED her kale and Kashi cereal to survive the Snowpocalypse. Those of us in the city weather the storm well because we can just walk to the neighborhood bar and camp out all day. Suburbanites are trapped in their houses debating which child to eat first.
February 1st, 2011 at 3:44 PM ^
February 1st, 2011 at 1:45 PM ^
Must get bread or you'll DIE!!! I just laughed when I saw the supermarkets here yesterday. We are getting more ice than snow now though.
EDIT: Whoa sorry cant figure out this picture size formatting.
February 1st, 2011 at 4:29 PM ^
to you for supporting my family (my dad works for Kroger)
February 1st, 2011 at 12:57 PM ^
My situation is basically the exact same thing. We can work from home tomorrow which means that I can track what's happening all day. Booyah!
February 1st, 2011 at 12:58 PM ^
Not unless the University shuts down, and I'm not optimistic.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:04 PM ^
in eight years I only saw the University shut down once, and that was on 9/11/01
February 1st, 2011 at 1:42 PM ^
They didn't decide to do that until around 1PM.
February 1st, 2011 at 2:07 PM ^
http://www.michigandaily.com/content/when-ann-arbor-freezes-over
It was the second worst day of the year for me...my freshman year. Walking from Couzens to the Diag was horrid! I did, however, find a bit of fun in the midst of it all. Hanging out with a couple friends near a massive ice patch in front of Hill Auditorium, we got to enjoy watching dozens of people navigate the dangerous terrain. I never realized how many different ways people could find to slip and fall. And... I never realized how hilarious it was to observe!! (for the record, nobody was seriously injured... that I know of).
I still think the Hail Mary from Kordell Stewart to Michael Westbrook later that year was the worst day.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:13 PM ^
February 1st, 2011 at 1:47 PM ^
What? The Feds still have work tomorrow. Are we talking about Fairfax and MoCo schools?
February 1st, 2011 at 3:49 PM ^
February 1st, 2011 at 4:29 PM ^
Unfortunately I'm not with the Fed and we only follow OPM when the Feds are closed or have a delayed opening/closing. Liberal leave means nothing to our CEO.