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Minnesotans Still Arguing About the Weather...

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A lot of people must have stayed home today from work, coming into Minneapolis at 8:00 the roads all had very low traffic volumes. This alleged blizzard has a lot of people scared.

Looking at the 10-day forecast, the weather.com forecast has us ending the month with three straight days where the daily highs will be sub-zero. It's just never going to end.
 
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St. Clown said:
A lot of people must have stayed home today from work, coming into Minneapolis at 8:00 the roads all had very low traffic volumes. This alleged blizzard has a lot of people scared.

Looking at the 10-day forecast, the weather.com forecast has us ending the month with three straight days where the daily highs will be sub-zero. It's just never going to end.
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I'm just so used to it now that I don't even notice the sub-zero. It just is what it is. Work is unusually dead here too. I figured if there was a day to work from home due to this storm, it is tomorrow, you know, when the hockey game is on.
 
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bigmrg74 said:
HAHAHAHAHA!!!! Silly Marylander!!! You believe the weatherman? HAHAHAHA!!!

You having about as much fun as what I have dodging pot holes lately? Lots of roads around here are getting pretty **** chewed up. I sure hope the State of Michigan gets smart and puts most of that budget surplus they have and dump it into the roads, because they're going to be terrible this year, especially when we all melt out here.
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Yeah, everytime I hear about this budget surplus I think, give it to the road commissions. They need it and we'll all benefit from it.

The pot holes are awful. Traffic last night was slow just because people were trying to negotiate potholes on Packard. Now that it's warmer and snow is melting, it's only going to get worse.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
I'm just so used to it now that I don't even notice the sub-zero. It just is what it is. Work is unusually dead here too. I figured if there was a day to work from home due to this storm, it is tomorrow, you know, when the hockey game is on.
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I'm just tired of the winter. In years past I've not been like this in February, but I've just been crawling this year because we had the earlier than normal start to winter and we never got the usual January Thaw.
 
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goldy_331 said:
And you aren't playing hockey!
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Yeah, I try not to think about that too much.

I just got word that when the snow starts we have permission to leave and work from home. For the first time, I get to use my laptop from a place other than my desk to do actual, assigned work and not to just update my out-of-office notice. :eek:
 
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St. Clown said:
Yeah, I try not to think about that too much.

I just got word that when the snow starts we have permission to leave and work from home. For the first time, I get to use my laptop from a place other than my desk to do actual, assigned work and not to just update my out-of-office notice. :eek:
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Wouldn't it make more sense to leave just before the snow is supposed to start? :p
 
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St. Clown said:
I'm just tired of the winter. In years past I've not been like this in February, but I've just been crawling this year because we had the earlier than normal start to winter and we never got the usual January Thaw.
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Reminds me of one of the most poetic descriptions of hell I ever read, from The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, of all places:

"where it's always winter, and never Christmas."


We didn't really have "winter" yet by Christmas, very little snow up until that point. All of our snow fell in January and February. So "always winter and never Christmas" really fits. :(
 
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FreshFish said:
Reminds me of one of the most poetic descriptions of hell I ever read, from The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, of all places:

"where it's always winter, and never Christmas."


We didn't really have "winter" yet by Christmas, very little snow up until that point. All of our snow fell in January and February. So "always winter and never Christmas" really fits. :(
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Just this week, as I was shoveling my driveway yet again, I thought with Winter lasting so long we should have another Christmas. If I'm going to be walking in a winter wonderland, I want more time off work and presents and meals with family.
 
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FreshFish said:
Reminds me of one of the most poetic descriptions of hell I ever read, from The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, of all places:

"where it's always winter, and never Christmas."


We didn't really have "winter" yet by Christmas, very little snow up until that point. All of our snow fell in January and February. So "always winter and never Christmas" really fits. :(
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We had winter and snow well before Christmas.
 
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wolverineTrumpet said:
Just this week, as I was shoveling my driveway yet again, I thought with Winter lasting so long we should have another Christmas. If I'm going to be walking in a winter wonderland, I want more time off work and presents and meals with family.
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It almost feels like we'll be celebrating Easter during this winter at this rate! Except that this year Easter is about as late as it can possibly be....
 
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Thundersnow this morning in MI.

Now the roads are coated in slush. A friend described it as "driving on Jello"
 
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Saw 3 cars get stuck in 3 different parking lots. At least the one I got stuck in I was able to maneuver out.
 
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I saw a bunch of people in the ditch and people were driving idiotic again (what makes people think that a little snow makes it legal to go through red lights 5-10 seconds after they turn red? I saw a SCHOOL BUS do it today going north on Hanson, light turned red a good 5 seconds before the bus barreled through without touching the brakes). I didn't think it was that bad....it still is just snow, it affects handling the exact same way it did when I started driving.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
I saw a bunch of people in the ditch and people were driving idiotic again (what makes people think that a little snow makes it legal to go through red lights 5-10 seconds after they turn red? I saw a SCHOOL BUS do it today going north on Hanson, light turned red a good 5 seconds before the bus barreled through without touching the brakes). I didn't think it was that bad....it still is just snow, it affects handling the exact same way it did when I started driving.
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I left the office at 1:30 today and got home at 3:45. The train was normal, as I took the LRT down to the MOA. From there I caught the bus down to the AV park and ride. The bus ride took a while as the driver just couldn't get any traction when a light turned green. And since all of the weight on those things is in the rear, the front wheels didn't catch well for turning. That didn't stop the guy from driving like a maniac while on the highway. I came across a three-car crash in Apple Valley, looked like it happened a just a couple minutes before I drove by.
 
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