Rant; Winter 2013/14

[heyzeus]

You'll probably be rescuing my dad today, Luke. He insists on driving to lambert to volunteer at the USO.

[jim]

I'm scared.

[Freed Roger]

Is it really necessary show school closings on the bottom tenth of my screen during NFL playoffs. Stupid winter.

[jim]

For those that say they don't like summer, I offer today as proof as why you are nuts. There is no point in the summer where 10 minutes out in it will cause injury. This is a bowl full of stupid is what this is.

I went out 30 minutes ago to shovel again, and the temperature is really starting to drop. I'm hoping we are past the major snow so I don't have to go out and do much more than brush it off.

[IMADreamer]

People who don't like summer should be forced to move to Alaska. There is just no reason not to love it. Even when it's 100 degrees out you can spend infinitely more time outside then this [expletive]. You don't have to shovel anything in the summer and there is no chance of you dying if your car breaks down in the middle of no where.

I just drove out to the farm to check on the animals and everything. It was so [expletive] I decided to bring the tractor back into town. No doubt my crazy neighbor will have the cops here [expletive] about having a big tractor parked in my driveway but I just may crush her car with it. That's the kind of mood winter puts me in.

I and the weather service both missed the forecast. We got about 10 inches of snow instead of 5. It's blowing 40mph out there and I took one swath in my driveway with the tractor and it's already drifted. [expletive] this weather.

[cardsfansince82]

We only got about 3 inches of snow, but it is cold as [expletive]. Wind chill of -30 in the morning. I can't even comprehend what that means. I'm pretty sure it means I'm going to open the door and instantly cancel going to work.

[Freed Roger]

90 percent of the fuss over winter in Stl is needless hysteria. Only 10 percent have jobs and situations where they can't hunker down for a day or two until temp goes back to 30.

And I don't recall an inordinate level of [expletive] about summer. Last year was nice.

[ghostrunner]

Shoveled the driveway 3 times today. Still prefer 20 degrees to 100. This is pretty rare, here at least.

[jim]

We just got word from work that we expect to open, but that if possible you should work from home. I sent out email to my group pre-approving anyone wanting to do that, and I will be taking advantage of that option tomorrow.

It's 2 right now, and our hourly forecast is frightening:

Midnight: -6/-36
3AM: -11/-41
6AM: -15/-45
9AM: -19/-46

etc.... topping out at -13/-42 at 2pm. Then down to -18 by 8pm where it levels off, getting up to -1 on Tuesday and then finally on Wed. 15.

[JL21]

All I know is that I won't be sweating my balls off for the next 3 months and I got a free day off of work tomorrow.