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 10:31 PM ^
What is Friday class?
February 8th, 2018 at 10:55 PM ^
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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.
February 9th, 2018 at 7:58 AM ^
I remember the NFL playoffs that winter, San Diego at Cinn. It was in the double-digit neagatives. San Diego didn't have a chance.
February 8th, 2018 at 10:23 PM ^
They said that it was only the third time that the U closed because of snow.
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.
February 9th, 2018 at 8:10 AM ^
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I also remember Starter jackets, waiting in line to register for classes in mid-Winter and Gary Moeller. Those were the days.
February 8th, 2018 at 11:00 PM ^
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February 9th, 2018 at 12:14 AM ^
I suddenly remember the snow forts and tunnels! THANK YOU, THAT WAS REAL!
So different. AAPS closed a couple days ago for pretty much no reason.
February 9th, 2018 at 7:01 AM ^
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February 10th, 2018 at 2:43 AM ^
Didn't Leon Hall say one reason for coming to Michigan was to prepare for cold weather games in the NFL?
February 8th, 2018 at 11:33 PM ^
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February 9th, 2018 at 5:56 AM ^
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.
February 9th, 2018 at 7:17 AM ^
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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.
February 9th, 2018 at 6:02 AM ^
February 9th, 2018 at 6:32 AM ^
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.
February 9th, 2018 at 7:08 AM ^
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.
February 9th, 2018 at 10:40 AM ^
February 9th, 2018 at 8:01 AM ^
There is like an inch of snow on the ground. Go to work ya bums!
February 9th, 2018 at 8:05 AM ^
February 9th, 2018 at 8:19 AM ^
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
February 9th, 2018 at 9:14 AM ^
wearing any pants.
February 9th, 2018 at 9:27 AM ^
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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.
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.
February 9th, 2018 at 11:05 AM ^
in LA today.
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