OT: Snow Day

Submitted by LLG on

Given the local schools closing tomorrow, I'm wondering what was your snowiest day or coldiest day in Ann Arbor?

I didn't realize it hit negative 39 a few years ago, or that Michigan had its first snow day in 36 years one year earlier.

As for me, I fondly remember my first big snow ball fight at South Quad.

 

 

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xtramelanin

February 8th, 2018 at 10:21 PM ^

we played hockey outside.  not kidding.  someone check the weather records though to see if the numbers are right.  i remember crystal clear days, but with big wind.  we dressed warm.  keep skating and you'd be okay other than your face freezing.

in the UP i remember not closing my office one day when it snowed 3 feet.   it was spring of '97, maybe march, IIRC.  we told the ladies to stay home and otherwise had a normal day at work.  courts were closed and the phones were quiet.  it is good to own diesel 4x4's with plows on the front. 

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Durham Blue

February 8th, 2018 at 10:49 PM ^

January 1994 just after winter break.  It got down to -19F actual temperature, not wind chill.  It was single digits or below zero for the high temperature for about 2 weeks straight.  Fuckin' cold.  Even so, I would not trade my time in AA for anything.

Joined: 10/09/2008

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goblueva

February 9th, 2018 at 8:10 AM ^

I remember this. Had a bio lab at the chem building at 7 pm so impossible to not go. As left my place on Hill St the radio DJ announced it was a wind chill of -35 deg and they were advising people to stay indoors because skin can freeze in something like 3 min. Our house was so drafty and old I slept in sweat pants, sweat shirt, gloves and a knitted hat that night.

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UMProud

February 8th, 2018 at 11:00 PM ^

Back in the early 70s we used to tunnel in the snow it was so deep...we would make snow forts with tunnels to different parts. You youngsters don't know the fun you missed

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DealerCamel

February 8th, 2018 at 11:33 PM ^

So there was a massive blizzard the weekend before break ended. Michigan, of course, didn't cancel classes, because that's not the Michigan Way. The first day of class rolls around, and every classroom is aboht 10% full, because nobody could actually get to campus. Flights were cancelled, driving was impossible, etc. So naturally, Michigan cancelled classes the NEXT day... on a day which was sunny and pretty clear. Cold as hell, yes, but I always found it funny that Michigan broke its no-snow-day streak not with the blizzard that made travel impossible, but the comparatively nice day right after.

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Ty Butterfield

February 9th, 2018 at 12:27 AM ^

Just started snowing in Kalamazoo. Kids today are a bunch of damn pansies. Would do them good to drag their asses to school as frozen as that one popsicle that gets lost in the back of the freezer. This is why the world has gone to shit.

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Lampuki22

February 9th, 2018 at 5:56 AM ^

Aren’t the pansies. They don’t make the decision to. Close school. The schools use liability as an excuse to shut down and avoid dealing with it. Teachers and admins are the pansies and it affects businesses as well. I dont know many parents happy about the abundance snow days now.


Typically my kids go snowboarding/skiing on snow days. Thats 15 miles away. School is at the end of the neighborhood we aunt no stinking pansies.

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Gucci Mane

February 9th, 2018 at 7:17 AM ^

My mom always loved snow days for myself and my siblings growing up. She was happy for us. I never understood why other parents didn’t like them. It was so foreign to me.

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uminks

February 9th, 2018 at 3:38 AM ^

I remember January of '77 my middle school closed early and my bus got stuck in a snow drift. I had to walk two miles home.  In '78 there was a big blizzard on January 28th.  My high school was closed for 4 days.

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Lampuki22

February 9th, 2018 at 6:32 AM ^

vs W Quad in the late 80s. Several great snowfall fights. Orange trays used as shields. We got onto the roof one time and were sniping W Quaders and also sending over water balloons until the cops arrived. Blasting Queens greatest hits and Whitesnake the entire time.

We also had keg parties, and progressive alcohol parties in the dorms and took mini kegs and Coors Beer Balls to football games. Somehow we forgot to try orgies.

I hear the students students just do drugs Nd play video games 24/7 now. Lol.

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huntmich

February 9th, 2018 at 7:08 AM ^

In Chicago. "Working from home." Which means drinking beer and sending out that one thing I finished yesterday but didn't tell anything about and then putting out any fires that arise. Btw, this storm was a minor bust. I was expecting 8-12". Last I checked we had 4". Lame.

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M-Dog

February 9th, 2018 at 7:50 AM ^

I lived in Cambridge Hall (graduate dorm in the Union that used to be the Union hotel. Great location and you got your own private room and bathroom). 

Anyway, it snowed like 2 feet but I had a craving for Taco Bell which was near the corner of S. University and E. University at the time. 

So I waded, not walked, through the snow in single digit temperatures in a driving wind from the Union to the Taco Bell, just so I could have a burrito.

It was miserable.

Best burrito I ever had.

  

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PeppersTheWorldEater

February 9th, 2018 at 8:19 AM ^

Coldest day flat out was January 2014, night I came back to West Quad from home. With the wind chill, it was around -41 degrees F. I think I remember reading that it was warmer on Mars than it was in Ann Arbor that night.

Coldest/snowiest/best was February 2015, the night before the second snow day in 2 years (first was in January 2014 which was the first in 40 years or so). Watching the Super Bowl in my dorm in South Quad with a few friends, Malcolm Butler just intercepted Russel Wilson at the goal line. Everyone flips. Check our phones a few minutes later and see the email for the snow day and everyone flips again. Awesome time

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theintegral

February 9th, 2018 at 10:00 AM ^

My wife and I were both educators and benefitted? from so many snow days.  Great to be home with the kids.  But as students in Detroit and suburban Detroit we only had one snowday during our student life: February, 1965 24 inches.  Pushed out a lot of cars that day.

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GPCharles

February 9th, 2018 at 1:19 PM ^

Four hour drive from Grosse Pointe to Ann Arbor.  Three guys with only a 12 pack of beer for the ride.  Driver allowed no bathroom stops.

Very few people made it back to school.  Sunday dinner required a very snowy trek down to Pizza Bob's.  M closed Monday and cancelled classes (allegedly) for the 1st time in school history.

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Cruzcontrol75

February 9th, 2018 at 2:04 PM ^

The Lax stadium tomorrow for the inaugural game. I wondered about the NCAA reg on gameball color which coach Conry briefly addressed in his WTKA interview yesterday. He said ‘thank God for orange balls’. Should be a balmy 25 for tomorrow’s game. Man’s game! sitches.

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