OT: Snow Day
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.
February 8th, 2018 at 9:17 PM ^
Its not even that much snow. 7 inches isnt much.
February 8th, 2018 at 9:18 PM ^
That’s what she said.
February 9th, 2018 at 10:25 PM ^
This really made me laugh
February 9th, 2018 at 10:25 PM ^
This really made me laugh
February 8th, 2018 at 9:18 PM ^
That’s what my ex gf said. Unfortunately.
February 8th, 2018 at 9:58 PM ^
Joke time:
Q: Why was Princess Diana disappointed on her wedding night?
A: She thought all rulers had 12 inches.
/may she rest in peace
February 8th, 2018 at 10:09 PM ^
She's not asian I take it.
February 9th, 2018 at 10:30 AM ^
You wish!
February 8th, 2018 at 9:22 PM ^
Timing matters more than total accumulation.
February 8th, 2018 at 10:00 PM ^
I will lob up a "Peter Griffin" softball: It's more about how fast it is blowing.
February 8th, 2018 at 9:24 PM ^
PHRASING
February 9th, 2018 at 3:45 AM ^
I promised her 5 inches but I gave her a foot. I forgot which one back in the 80s but they did not get fired.
February 9th, 2018 at 9:14 AM ^
It isn't, but for work purposes I have my entire office setup at home as well so it's really not worth the commute if I don't have any client meetings (fortunately today I don't). While it isn't a day off, I do enjoy being home in the office working in my PJs.
February 8th, 2018 at 9:21 PM ^
This snowday is bs! when I was a young whippersnapper I walked uphill in 3 feet of snow both ways!
February 8th, 2018 at 9:29 PM ^
You joke, but my son is in 2nd grade and has already had more snow days than I can remember between 5-12 grade. I don’t remember before that
February 9th, 2018 at 7:54 AM ^
My kids just got a whole day off because of cold rain.
For real.
Their bubble wrap generation is never going to make it in the real world.
February 9th, 2018 at 9:10 AM ^
Leave Britney alone!
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February 9th, 2018 at 9:53 AM ^
I was unaware that it was kids making the decision to close the school.
February 9th, 2018 at 9:56 AM ^
I agree, We need to do something about the generation applying the bubble wrap to their children.
February 8th, 2018 at 9:56 PM ^
When at Western Michigan I lived in the Valley dorms. The thing is , while they are in a valley, they’re not at the bottom. To get to campus you have to go down to the bottom of the valley then back up to campus. Then you have to repeat the process on the way back. So, those of us in valley 2 actually did go uphill both ways.
February 9th, 2018 at 11:03 AM ^
freshman year.
Nothing like seeing girls laying out in bikinis trying to get a tan before Spring Break while there was still ice on the valley pond!
February 8th, 2018 at 9:23 PM ^
My Taiwanese girlfriend says that a small penis shouldn’t matter in a loving relationship, but I still wish she didn’t have one.
February 8th, 2018 at 9:24 PM ^
your girlfriend's penis looks like a button on a fur coat
February 8th, 2018 at 9:34 PM ^
She went thundergunner on his ass!
February 8th, 2018 at 9:26 PM ^
That was funny. +1.
February 8th, 2018 at 9:26 PM ^
You wish she didnt penis? Or she's got a small penis?
February 8th, 2018 at 9:35 PM ^
Lady-Boys are Thai, not Taiwanese....how do I know that you ask? Ahhh....
So, did you hear Grant Newsome is feeling great these days? How about all those falls in the figure skating tonight?
February 8th, 2018 at 10:09 PM ^
snort-laughed.
February 8th, 2018 at 9:25 PM ^
"U-M is convening a committee to review closing guidelines."
Good grief, I would love to read a transcript of those committee meetings.
February 8th, 2018 at 9:30 PM ^
I had a double post so I'll just say I was hoping for more wholesome memories....
February 8th, 2018 at 9:34 PM ^
in LA today.
February 8th, 2018 at 9:37 PM ^
I was a grad student working on my chemistry PhD during the year the snow day happened. I took the bus in to town and walked to the chemistry building pretending I was a Nord in Skyrim. Got to lab to get some work done and found out that classes had been cancelled. Didn't matter to us graduate students, we had work to do. I think that somewhere around 5 out of the 7 members of the lab were there working that day.
February 8th, 2018 at 9:44 PM ^
My freshman year during the 2013-14 polar vortex. U-M cancelled classes for the first time since 1978 and it happened to be on my birthday. A LOT of drinking was done during the day off....to keep warm of course
February 8th, 2018 at 9:48 PM ^
I found out that classes were cancelled while I was already at the bar. Fun times!
February 8th, 2018 at 10:36 PM ^
We spent the day partying and building a sled run down the hill on the frat house property. It had all the hallmarks of a true stoner project.
February 8th, 2018 at 9:53 PM ^
coldest - probably mid-January 1994. Huge cold snap. Something like -20 at Detroit Metro (DTW) and below zero for 3 straight days.
I don't know what the deal is at Ann Arbor's airport, but they seem to ALWAYS be 10-15 degrees colder than DTW on clear and chilly nights. I've once or twice even seen them have temperatures in the upper 30s in July (?!?!?). DTW's temperatures seem a bit more representative of the area as a whole.
February 8th, 2018 at 10:14 PM ^
I remember both of these - we actually tried to make a run to Blockbuster on Ann Arbor-Saline to get some movies during the cold snap in 1994, and even the 20 foot walk from the car to the front door felt like an hour. As I recall, we had a generous helping of snow before that snap too, so extra depressing indeed.
January 2nd 1999....I was supposed to get back to campus and ended up stuck at my parents' house, only 15 minutes from campus, for a few days since Washtenaw County never really mastered plowing subdivisions that were in the townships and not in more developed areas. The worst part of that was that it got REALLY fucking cold in the days after it, so if you didn't shovel out right away, you couldn't safely do it for days afterwards.
February 8th, 2018 at 11:13 PM ^
what Washtenaw County has mastered is crushing your mailbox with a snow plow, or putting a giant snowbank in front of it so you get a bitchy note from the mail carrier
February 9th, 2018 at 12:19 AM ^
SE Michigan BLOWS when it comes to snow removal. loved living in Ketchum, ID. Plow and add sand.
February 9th, 2018 at 5:52 AM ^
The January 1999 snowstorm convinced me to move to Colorado. 16 inches of fluffy beauty and blue sky Arctic air was followed the next day with sheets of rain and dense fog. Upon seeing this horror I walked into my manager's office and gave my two weeks notice. The problem with Southern Michigan winters isn't that they are too cold, but rather they are too warm.
February 9th, 2018 at 8:49 AM ^
I remember that 1999 storm. I drove from near Purdue where my parents live back up to Flint as it was getting started. The interstates up there eventually got shut down, but that didn't stop 5 or 6 of us from piling into a car to go to Deja Vu.
I used to make some absolutely terrible decisions.
February 8th, 2018 at 9:49 PM ^
Everyone in Couzen's had a waxed cafeteria tray. The sledding somehow got better as the night wore on.
February 8th, 2018 at 9:49 PM ^
January 6th, 2014. Was -45 wind chill and snowed 17 inches the night before in Flint. We drove to Detroit that morning for me to catch a flight to Germany. We de-iced on the tarmac for two hours and broke one of the de-icer trucks, but we got out of there.
February 8th, 2018 at 9:54 PM ^
Yeah, we had a similar airport experience that year. Had to de-ice twice. That was a brutal, but kind of fun winter.
February 8th, 2018 at 9:52 PM ^
I remember that insanely cold winter. My last year living in Ypsilanti. I had a case of beer explode in my garage. :/
February 8th, 2018 at 9:54 PM ^
It was actually two years in a row, IIRC, with the second year being only slightly milder.
February 8th, 2018 at 10:57 PM ^
Sad story bro
February 8th, 2018 at 9:54 PM ^
Was those damn polar vortexes my senior year in 2014. I remember one of the worst was the night Florida State played Auburn in the last BCS National Championship game. We drove over to our buddies place of East U and the thermometer in my car read -24, I think the wind chills were below -30. That winter overall was brutal then somehow, by divine intervention, I was back in town Super Bowl weekend the next year when it snowed like 18 inches in the span of 12 hours. Those have to be the two worst days I remember in Ann Arbor in terms of snow or cold.
February 9th, 2018 at 12:38 AM ^
I remember finally getting the text from a friend that it was a snow day. Took us forever to get back from the game in East Lansing. Definitely enjoyed having that next day off
February 8th, 2018 at 9:59 PM ^
You ass hole. I thought this thread was going to say Uofm cancelled Friday classes.