MNers - Storm of the Century - Page 6

Mrs. Utah · #51 03-01-2007, 06:34 PM

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Yeah, my classes got canceled at the U of M tonight. So nice.

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Very nice, they rarely cancel classes!

If anyone has to drive be careful, I just got home. Plows are not keeping up.

CheckRaise · #52 03-01-2007, 08:08 PM

I just drove to the liquor store to get booze, visibility was about 10 feet, 50 mph wind gusts and I saw and heard thunder and lightning. I've never seen lightning during a snow storm.

CrazyEyez · #53 03-01-2007, 08:10 PM

I'm still at work in minneapolis.
Will be driving to Lakeville within the hour.
Over/under on me making it home alive?

CheckRaise · #54 03-01-2007, 08:19 PM

CrazyEyez

I assume you are taking 35 home, it appears to have been plowed recently, obviously traffic isn't an issue. I'd say you stand a pretty damn good chance of making it home alive [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

If you want to check out road conditions go HERE

CrazyEyez · #55 03-01-2007, 08:26 PM

Thanks CR.
I always check that site before I leave when I drive in.

whiskeytown · #56 03-01-2007, 09:17 PM

My boss called at 3pm and told us work was off - fortunately, I left my laptop at work and remote access wasn't set up yet or else I'd have been working from home [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

shoveld, snowraked, and scraped at 9am and here 9 hrs later it's worse then ever - got enough cleared so I can do it again in the am - ay carumba -

when MY work gets canceled, it's bad - first time in 5 yrs they did it and I hear the freeways are closing -

this is one of the bad, bad ones, even for MN - ay carumba -

rb

deadbody · #57 03-01-2007, 10:12 PM

I've shoveled 4 times so far today, at least 4 inches every time. The snowplow got stuck in my alley, the driving is that bad.

The worst part, I was downsized on Valentines day, so I have no work to not go to tomorrow.

GG Life

ed8383 · #58 03-01-2007, 10:16 PM

I just don't know how someone can be an intelligent adult and live in such places. I rather pay a little more in another state and avoid snow altogether.

whiskeytown · #59 03-02-2007, 11:52 AM

if snow were alive, I'd have it killed -

by burying it alive in a shallow grave in the desert and letting it suffocate -

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RB

CrazyEyez · #60 03-02-2007, 12:03 PM

I'm with you WT.
I shoveled last night, and again this morning. It took me longer to shovel this morning than to get to work (from north end of lakeville to minneapolis).

By my calculations I easily shoveled >1 ton of snow.

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I just don't know how someone can be an intelligent adult and live in such places. I rather pay a little more in another state and avoid snow altogether.

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I don't have a good counter-argument, except to say that MN almost never gets more than a few inches of snow at a time. It just gets mother [censored] cold and lasts for 5 months. Yeah I'm feeling pretty stupid for living here right now.