The Great Charlotte Blizzard of '18!!!

[MU82]

It just started snowing here. About 1-2 inches is expected. It won't stick long, as temps will begin to head higher tomorrow. Beginning Saturday, forecast is for high temps of at least 50 for the next 2 weeks, so this might end up being The Big One of 2018. (And The Only One of 2018.)

They canceled today's school at 5:45 p.m. yesterday just on the threat of snow.

The South is SOOOO funny, y'all!

[mu03eng]

It just started snowing here. About 1-2 inches is expected. It won't stick long, as temps will begin to head higher tomorrow. Beginning Saturday, forecast is for high temps of at least 50 for the next 2 weeks, so this might end up being The Big One of 2018. (And The Only One of 2018.)

They canceled today's school at 5:45 p.m. yesterday just on the threat of snow.

The South is SOOOO funny, y'all!

I will say having lived all of the country but now residing in the midwest for a number of years it is hilarious to watch the national news freak out any time a storm of any consequence approaches the eastern seaboard. I totally get south of the mason dixon line since snow and/or cold is rare, but man, the northeast must just be filled with a bunch of pansies.

[chapman]

Same deal in the Triangle.  I now stay home with the rest of them.  Seen too many clueless people in ditches or causing accidents after an inch of snow to want to join them on the road.

[Spotcheck Billy]

I lived in Winston-Salem during the blizzard of 1987. 18 inches crippled the city for a week.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

TAMU had a snow day yesterday.  No snow fell. It did rain and then freeze over though so it was probably for the best. Texans have no idea how to drive in any sort of ice or precipitation. Appreciated the four day weekend

[StillAWarrior]

Texans have no idea how to drive in any sort of ice or precipitation.

And this is one main reason why we weren't particularly fond of Texans where I grew up.  This and the fact that they had much nicer ski equipment than we did, even though they couldn't ski worth a dam.  We did love their money, though.

Stay safe, MU82.  Stock up on water and batteries.

[MU82]

Stay safe, MU82.  Stock up on water and batteries.

What's funny about that is that people were flocking to the stores for water yesterday, as if we were going to have Buffalo-type snow.

It's all good. They have, like, 2 plows here. So I know the score. But it's still pretty comical as a kid who spent his first 50 years in Connecticut, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois.

[#UnleashSean]

People laugh about the south fear of snow but it's kind of realistic honestly.

Between very little experience driving in the conditions, coupled with the facts that the snow turns to ice there very quickly and they have like 2 plows per state.

I was down in Georgia a few years ago when they had the inch of ice that shutdown Atlanta and people were abandoning cars on the roads.

[warriorchick]

And this is one main reason why we weren't particularly fond of Texans where I grew up.  This and the fact that they had much nicer ski equipment than we did, even though they couldn't ski worth a dam.  We did love their money, though.

Stay safe, MU82.  Stock up on water and batteries.

For some reason, it's bread and milk. My sister took these pictures grocery store in Nashville last week when they were told ice was coming.






It always melts within a couple of days, but people down there act like it's Armageddon.

[reinko]

I will say having lived all of the country but now residing in the midwest for a number of years it is hilarious to watch the national news freak out any time a storm of any consequence approaches the eastern seaboard. I totally get south of the mason dixon line since snow and/or cold is rare, but man, the northeast must just be filled with a bunch of pansies.

Having grown up in MKE, and now living in Boston the last 15 years, and I have never seen as much snow in my life than living here.  I get the whole East coast wussy thing, but anything more than 8 inches the schools here have to close down.  Most of our neighborhoods have narrow streets for buses, high schoolers are dependent on the T to get around, and travel just becomes a nightmare.  Not a Boston Public Schools bus skidded of the road a few winters ago, and after that lawsuit if the District get nervous, they end up closing.

[warriorchick]

Having grown up in MKE, and now living in Boston the last 15 years, and I have never seen as much snow in my life than living here.  I get the whole East coast wussy thing, but anything more than 8 inches the schools here have to close down.  Most of our neighborhoods have narrow streets for buses, high schoolers are dependent on the T to get around, and travel just becomes a nightmare.  Not a Boston Public Schools bus skidded of the road a few winters ago, and after that lawsuit if the District get nervous, they end up closing.

It's not even in the same league.  In the South, they close schools when there is even a prediction of snow of any measurable amount.  I remember more than one snow day where we didn't get a flake of it.

[Skitch]

I just saw something on Twitter that said the #1 thing Wal-Mart sells before giant storms are supposed to hit is strawberry pop tarts. I'm not sure if that's true or not but I found it funny.

[mu03eng]

Having grown up in MKE, and now living in Boston the last 15 years, and I have never seen as much snow in my life than living here.  I get the whole East coast wussy thing, but anything more than 8 inches the schools here have to close down.  Most of our neighborhoods have narrow streets for buses, high schoolers are dependent on the T to get around, and travel just becomes a nightmare.  Not a Boston Public Schools bus skidded of the road a few winters ago, and after that lawsuit if the District get nervous, they end up closing.

No I get the impact of it, and I'm not denying that. I'm simply saying that it is somewhat routine but every time there is a 10 inch snowfall it's treated as if it's some rare event...it happens a couple of times a year.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Remember the one year the pols were threatening a "government shutdown" over a budget deal. The bickering came to an end when a snow storm threatened and the pols wanted to hightail it home.  Meanwhile, the government was shut down for like 10 days as DC couldn't remove the snow.

[warriorchick]

No I get the impact of it, and I'm not denying that. I'm simply saying that it is somewhat routine but every time there is a 10 inch snowfall it's treated as if it's some rare event...it happens a couple of times a year.

In Chicago, every freaking channel features live remotes during the first snowfall, with reporters standing on some random overpass.

Glow will attest that I always yell at the screen, "It's December! It's Chicago! The fact that it is snowing is not news!"

[Babybluejeans]

And this is one main reason why we weren't particularly fond of Texans where I grew up.  This and the fact that they had much nicer ski equipment than we did, even though they couldn't ski worth a dam.  We did love their money, though.

Stay safe, MU82.  Stock up on water and batteries.

People here in Colorado rag on Texans all the time for the same thing. Except here they're notorious for skiing in jeans (cotton! come on!) and for absolutely sucking at the sport - and sucking at driving too.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

I was in CPS from Kindergarden all the way through high school and I think we got two snow days in my 13 years, and it was a legitimate snow day.

It was my senior year of high school (2010-11) and it took snowpocalypse for the schools to be shut down for just two days (and school wasn't out of the question on day two). What was that, like two feet of snow?

Like the good Chicagoans we were, instead of hunkering down indoors, I walked over to my friends house to next day and spent a good few hours sledding.

[tower912]

Blizzard of 78.  Week and a half off from school.  We drove home from attending my grandfather's funeral in Ohio through some of the worst of it.  My dad, also a firefighter, fought his way to work the next day and didn't come home for 5 days.  Because we had been out of town, the larder was empty.  Walked a 1/2 mile to a 7/11 pulling a sled, loaded up, pulled it home.
  Snow drifts in the driveway up to the rim.  When dad got home, my younger brother and I got in trouble for not having it shoveled out.   Sledding off of building roofs into snow drifts.  Heaven for an 11 year old.

[StillAWarrior]

...where I grew up.

People here in Colorado...

That's where I grew up.

[Jockey]

I will say having lived all of the country but now residing in the midwest for a number of years it is hilarious to watch the national news freak out any time a storm of any consequence approaches the eastern seaboard. I totally get south of the mason dixon line since snow and/or cold is rare, but man, the northeast must just be filled with a bunch of pansies.

It ain't the people. It's the wall-to-wall news stations that have to fill 24 hours everyday with dramatic doings. They are all "snow events" now.

[JWags85]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6zaVYWLTkU

To be honest, having grown up in the midwest where getting pounded with snow is normal and you need 4-6 inches between midnight and morning to even DREAM of a snow day from school...I'm pretty jealous of living somewhere where flurries shut everything down.  Sounds fantastic.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Blizzard of 78.  Week and a half off from school.  We drove home from attending my grandfather's funeral in Ohio through some of the worst of it.  My dad, also a firefighter, fought his way to work the next day and didn't come home for 5 days.  Because we had been out of town, the larder was empty.  Walked a 1/2 mile to a 7/11 pulling a sled, loaded up, pulled it home. Uphill....both ways!
  Snow drifts in the driveway up to the rim.  When dad got home, my younger brother and I got in trouble for not having it shoveled out.   Sledding off of building roofs into snow drifts.  Heaven for an 11 year old.

FIFY 

[tower912]

FIFY 

Barefoot, too.     Although we DID wear the buckle boots with the breadbag liners.   

[real chili 83]

Blizzard of 78.  Week and a half off from school.  We drove home from attending my grandfather's funeral in Ohio through some of the worst of it.  My dad, also a firefighter, fought his way to work the next day and didn't come home for 5 days.  Because we had been out of town, the larder was empty.  Walked a 1/2 mile to a 7/11 pulling a sled, loaded up, pulled it home.
  Snow drifts in the driveway up to the rim.  When dad got home, my younger brother and I got in trouble for not having it shoveled out.   Sledding off of building roofs into snow drifts.  Heaven for an 11 year old.

78 was fun. Jumping off the garage roof into a snow pile.

[Juan Anderson's Mixtape]

A few years ago, I worked at a TV station in Madison and we had a news director from Alabama.  He was all worked up about a 1-2 snowstorm, basically wanting to give it the news coverage we gave normally for a foot of snow.  We all said, it's just 2 inches of snow; what is the big deal?

[MU82]

At 5:30 today, they announced school is closed tomorrow, too.

It's gonna be sunny all day, with high of 39. But it will be in the high teens in the early morning and they're afraid of ice.

The big wussiness test will be Friday, when it will again be sunny all day with a high around 50. Will it still be too chilly at 7 a.m. for the cherubs? Maybe they'll just do a 10 a.m. opening.

Hey, it's actually been nice getting a couple days off basketball practice and getting to go right to Friday night's game (assuming there will be school that day).

[muwarrior69]

My time at MU 65-69 we never closed for snow, but they did cancel classes when we had 3 days of -20 degree temps.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

We had one snow day at Marquette and maybe two cold days as well.

[GooooMarquette]

78 was fun. Jumping off the garage roof into a snow pile.

I did that too...except the fall was only about two feet after we had pushed the snow off the garage roof.

[MU82]

I honestly cannot remember a single snow or cold day from when I was at MU, but maybe there was one.

My memory isn't what it used to be.

I honestly cannot remember a single snow or cold day from when I was at MU, but maybe there was one.

[drewm88]

It was my senior year of high school (2010-11) and it took snowpocalypse for the schools to be shut down for just two days (and school wasn't out of the question on day two). What was that, like two feet of snow?

Like the good Chicagoans we were, instead of hunkering down indoors, I walked over to my friends house to next day and spent a good few hours sledding.

Groundhog's Day. LSD was filled with cars that got stuck. My now-wife lived in a River North high-rise with floor to ceiling windows. Watched it pile up on streets, balconies, and roofs all day and night. Walking around the next day was crazy. Empty streets, neighbors working together to clear tiny paths on the sidewalk, snowbanks to my ribs. It was awesome.

[drewm88]

My time at MU 65-69 we never closed for snow, but they did cancel classes when we had 3 days of -20 degree temps.

December 2006 MU had a perfect snow day. Not too cold, and the snow was ideal for snowballs and snow football. Another one Ash Wednesday of 2008. That day was awful. Freezing rain and howling wind. A good day for staying inside and drinking all day, but feeling guilty about it because of Ash Wednesday.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

I honestly cannot remember a single snow or cold day from when I was at MU, but maybe there was one.

My memory isn't what it used to be.

I honestly cannot remember a single snow or cold day from when I was at MU, but maybe there was one.

I recall one snow day at Marquette.  Freshman year, December 1987.
I was so mad because my Chemistry final got canceled.  I was prepared to do well on the final and I needed it to bring my grade up.  The option became available to take the final sometime in February else retain the current grade.  Forget it.  I forgot everything by then and was too tied up with spring semester at that point.

Blizzard of 78.  I still remember that one very well also.  Snow piles twice the height over the mailbox.  Cars stuck on I-95 buried in snow for days.  I still wonder how my parents shoveled the driveway?  It was a 9 years old winter paradise for sure.

[CTWarrior]

I recall one snow day at Marquette.  Freshman year, December 1987.
I was so mad because my Chemistry final got canceled.  I was prepared to do well on the final and I needed it to bring my grade up.  The option became available to take the final sometime in February else retain the current grade.  Forget it.  I forgot everything by then and was too tied up with spring semester at that point.

Blizzard of 78.  I still remember that one very well also.  Snow piles twice the height over the mailbox.  Cars stuck on I-95 buried in snow for days.  I still wonder how my parents shoveled the driveway?  It was a 9 years old winter paradise for sure.

We got a whole week off, if I remember correctly.  Ella Grasso closed the state for the week.  As a 16 year old my 18 year old brother and I had the unenviable task of shoveling that monster.  Not fun.  My parents had this old fashioned rocky driveway pavement that looked like loose stones but wasn't, so there was the added bonus of a forearm shiver down to your spine every tenth time you shoved the shovel into the snow and snagged a protruding stone.

I have a short driveway (just two car lengths)  two cars wide and a standard lot sidewalk, so I haven't bothered getting a snowblower, but that storm in 2013 *34") took me 6 hours to clean out.

[StillAWarrior]

At 5:30 today, they announced school is closed tomorrow, too.

My son at Elon told me that they cancelled class again today because of the snow.  When we spoke last night, he said they had announced a four-hour delay for today, but he predicted then that they'd probably cancel because it was still snowing at the time.  Apparently he was correct.  They're probably going to have to schedule a make-up for Saturday because with this shortened J-Term they do in January at Elon, missing two days of class is like missing two weeks during a regular semester.

[MU82]

My son at Elon told me that they cancelled class again today because of the snow.  When we spoke last night, he said they had announced a four-hour delay for today, but he predicted then that they'd probably cancel because it was still snowing at the time.  Apparently he was correct.  They're probably going to have to schedule a make-up for Saturday because with this shortened J-Term they do in January at Elon, missing two days of class is like missing two weeks during a regular semester.

I was stunned when I got the call at about 5:45 today that Charlotte public schools canceled Friday's school. I thought they might delay the start until 10 a.m. or something to allow the last of the ice to melt. But canceling the whole day? The snow is already gone from most roads, and it is supposed to be 50 and sunny tomorrow.

That's right: 50 and sunny, yet they canceled school because they were worried that a few students on the outer edges of the district might still have ice on the ground.

What a bunch of effen wusses!!!! No other way to put it.

[tower912]

http://www.mlive.com/weather/index.ssf/2018/01/great_blizzard_of_78_textbook.html#incart_river_home

Blizzard of 78, revisited. 

[T-Bone]

I keep reading this subject as The Great Chocolate Blizzard.  And thinking that Faisal Abraham is up to something.

[real chili 83]

Fun ride today.

[tower912]

http://woodtv.com/2018/01/26/40-years-later-the-great-blizzard-of-1978/

More pictures of the 78 Blizzard.