OT- Storm of the Century Open Thread

days since the last UofM snow day

cant post yet, but denard is going to be on the dan patrick show around 9:30am est.

Did you get a lot of icing where you are?  Storm of the century seems a little dramatic for this one unless you live in Amarillo, where it was pretty nasty 2 days ago. 

as usual.  This is getting very old at this point though.  I have an internal measuring system for the appropriate number of annoying-ass-weather-days allowed per year and that number has been exceeded.  

As for drinking, you owe nobody an explanation for cracking one open whenever you want (except for your children, if you have any, then you owe them an explanation and you don't have a good one).  However, I can tell you that your drinking experience will have a better result if you do wait until after noon, some time aroun 2:00 PM being optimal with a 6:30 start time tonight.  Just keep busy until then, stay on this blog, watch Karate Kid 2, trim your toe nails.  That beer will still be there in a couple of hours.

Looked outside and a tree limb about 9 feet long fell on the sidewalk in front of my house. Besides that, not too much damage I can see right now. I've been a Michigander my whole life though, so this weather isn't even that bad at all.

Well it's raining here in Cleveland.  Which would make it the "Storm of the morning of February 27th" given that it seems to rain or snow here every damn day of the year.

I seriously thought you were talking about Minnesota's storming the court (FWIW, I live in California).

Be safe out there MGoPeeps!

I'm not at work yet because it took 2 and a half hours to dig out. And start shaking bush and tree branches so if we get more they don't all crack. Had one bush blocking my walkway, and another dangling in the driveway. Might still carwash brush my car on the way out. Beyond broken branches I think one bush on the side of my house is uprooted. Luckily as neighbors we all worked together to dig out. And knock on wood even though DTE's map says I'm without power, so far, so good.

Hardly storm of the century, perhaps storm of "between January and February of 2013".  We received a little bit under 3" of snow, and I'm at work.  It was a very ho-hum snowfall.  Now, had arctic air been in place at the onset of the storm (we got a ton of rain before the changeover to snow) then it definitely could have been one of the biggest storms Detroit has seen in a decade.  But the air wasn't cold enough, and it wasn't a big storm, at least here.

Doesn't live up to the hype

This shows how much attention I pay to the world around me. I have no idea what storm you're talking about, I'm in northern Michigan, and while its snowing, its not storming.

The servers were down on every big college campus in Michigan last night. And it's midterms week.

This was seriously called the 'storm of the century'?  I hate the media.

As Rocky. And it is business as usual for me today but it does seem like are more kids around the office. I can't for the life of me figure out why....

Here in southwestern Wayne county, it started yesterday afternoon as a hellish rain, then around 4 PM, it slowly turned to ice and sleet. By 5 PM, it was all snow - a heavy, slushy snow. We heard some limbs crack out in the woods too, which was a little disconcerting as there are overhead distribution lines out there. 

This morning, we had about 3-4 of slush sitting on the ground basically, so I spent an hour doing what could best be described as mining snow, as I literally had to pick at it with the shovel and haul it off a chunk at a time. It was that heavy. It is also slightly above freezing now here, so the slush in the street has created a beautiful stream which terminates at the drain near the intersection. The dead leaves and grass collecting along the sides give it a quasi-natural quality. 

I think there were about 15,000 out in Washtenaw County this morning too, so if you are out, definitely report it. The more we know about, the faster you generally get restored. 

I stepped in a fairly large slush puddle this morning at State and South U and that pissed me off.  Business as usual otherwise.

One took out the phone lines. A very large limb was blocking my road that was fortunately moved aside by the plow. Not as bad as the ice storm about 12 years ago, but lots of work to do in the yard when the snow melts

Not even close?

we easily have 9" of snow in the yard.  We got buried.  Most of SW Michigan didn't get nearly that much I guess.  Don't know why we got "lucky".  It looks really beautiful though.  

I have about half an inch of slush on the ground outside.  This isn't even the storm of the week.

In st Clair shores we got a couple inches, lots of slush though. I shoveled last night about 9 and we only got a dusting after that. Roads are crap cause scs doesn't plow, but major highways were fine this am. Not really a storm where I am IMHO

If the temperature here would have stayed around 32-31 degrees it would have been nasty. There was around a tenth of an inch of ice stuck to the trees and power lines after about an hour of raining. After that the temperature rose to 36 and it's been raining since.

Florida.

We must have 5-8" in spots.  And it's a heavy wet mess with slush and ice under the snow. Everyone I've talked to has trees broken, things in their driveway, and a lot of clean up. The main streets aren't too bad, and it's certainly not record breaking....but it's the worst snow storm of the last couple of years at least, which have been pretty light. Not sure if it's the worst winter storm since I lived at my house, but it's probably top 3. The everything covered in rain then freezing to ice than weighed down by heavy snow has done more damage than any I remember. Worse if we actually get any more real accumulation before the next thaw.

I have the luxury of a 5 minute bus ride to the UMHS each morning, and all my coworkers commute.  Thanks co-technician, lab manager, primary investigator, husbandry staff, and clerical staff for giving me all of your work today while you sit at home by the fire with a cup of coco and a book/sarcasm/i hate you all.

I give this storm 4 fakes out of 5.  It's a shame too.  So much potential.

Snowmaggedon in DC back in 2010 would be in the running for storm of the century.  We got around 24" inches of snow, followed by an additional 15"-16" the next weekend.

Couple that with the fact that there is little to no snow-clearing infrastructure out here...it was nuts.  Schools were shut down for like 2 weeks because neighborhoods couldn't get  cleared.  I missed 4 days of work.

I had the snow piled up around 6-7 feet from digging out the driveway.

I've wanted to move into a house for sometime, but days like this do make me appreciate apartment living.  No shoveling for me!

today, as if it were any other day.

We got quite a bit over here across Lake Michigan. I live a bit north of Chicago, and the official total for yesterday noon-midnight was 10.2".