Up to 20" of snow expected

[paintballwebs]

Originally posted by: Homerboy
we posted hours apart
its coming down like a monster right now (downtown MKE on WI ave)
roads are CAKED

sure enough. sorry, didn't notice that. are you staying out of it?

 

[Random Variable]

They have yet to cancel evening classes at my school, even though some of the roads are virtually impassable.

 

[paintballwebs]

Originally posted by: Random Variable
They have yet to cancel evening classes at my school, even though some of the roads are virtually impassable.

What school?

 

[rh71]

omg turn that copy & paste caps lock button off

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: paintballwebs

Originally posted by: Homerboy
we posted hours apart
its coming down like a monster right now (downtown MKE on WI ave)
roads are CAKED

sure enough. sorry, didn't notice that. are you staying out of it?

Nope at work... looking down from my 7th floor office directly onto Wisconsin ave.
solid white can ALMOST see past 1 block

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: Random Variable
They have yet to cancel evening classes at my school, even though some of the roads are virtually impassable.

That MSOE?
I heard their night classes were still on as of this morning

 

[paintballwebs]

That's too bad. Seems like a bad and unsafe decision to make people, esp. commuters, go to class. When I was in college, there were a few times that UWM didn't cancel, but the prof. did. Hopefully they close and nobody gets into in accident/hurt.

 

[Uppsala9496]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Well, thus far nothing close to 20 inches here, more like 5 or 6 inches of accumulation since the snow started around 3pm yesterday. But the last couple of hours it's been a total whiteout outside. I can't even see the next building a few hundred feet away.

I'm in Deerfield IL right now, they are closing the office early and at 2pm I'll be driving NW to my home in Wauconda (about 15 miles from the Wisconsin border)

This is a huge storm ...

I hope my Chrysler gets me home in one piece ...

My office (in Rolling Meadows) let us out at 12:30. I only live about 3 miles away so it wasn't bad for me. My wife works in Deerfield. Luckily she is home on maternity leave. As a matter of fact, she and the baby are sleeping right now while I'm enjoying a beer and watching the snow fall.
No Dish Network signal. This sucks.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: paintballwebs
That's too bad. Seems like a bad and unsafe decision to make people, esp. commuters, go to class. When I was in college, there were a few times that UWM didn't cancel, but the prof. did. Hopefully they close and nobody gets into in accident/hurt.

yeah I personally think its stupid and I don't understand it.
We do a lot of time sensitive things (courts and banks) so if those are open we kind of have to keep running too. Our rule is if the buses are running we are running... MCTS has never closed that I know of....

 

[paintballwebs]

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: paintballwebs
That's too bad. Seems like a bad and unsafe decision to make people, esp. commuters, go to class. When I was in college, there were a few times that UWM didn't cancel, but the prof. did. Hopefully they close and nobody gets into in accident/hurt.

yeah I personally think its stupid and I don't understand it.
We do a lot of time sensitive things (courts and banks) so if those are open we kind of have to keep running too. Our rule is if the buses are running we are running... MCTS has never closed that I know of....

yeah, I've lived here for 7 years and I have never seen the buses stop running. Usually slow and way of schedule, but never stopped.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: paintballwebs

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: paintballwebs
That's too bad. Seems like a bad and unsafe decision to make people, esp. commuters, go to class. When I was in college, there were a few times that UWM didn't cancel, but the prof. did. Hopefully they close and nobody gets into in accident/hurt.

yeah I personally think its stupid and I don't understand it.
We do a lot of time sensitive things (courts and banks) so if those are open we kind of have to keep running too. Our rule is if the buses are running we are running... MCTS has never closed that I know of....

yeah, I've lived here for 7 years and I have never seen the buses stop running. Usually slow and way of schedule, but never stopped.

well if we closed now, we'd just be sending people home in the middle of it so it doesn't make too much sense. By 5pm hopefully it will be tapered some.

As of 2pm MCTS is running 15-30mins behind schedule per the website. Yes... they never close.

 

[paintballwebs]

MCTS is always 15-30 mins behind schedule.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: paintballwebs
MCTS is always 15-30 mins behind schedule.

:thumbsup:

 

[Eli]

I've never seen thundersnow either, although I've seen plenty of thunderhail... lol

 

[Kabrinski]

Originally posted by: trmiv
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! I couldn't handle that. Although I do admit this "thundershow" thing has me intrigued. But I'll take our 77 today in Raleigh, NC. 79 for a high tomorrow with thunderstorms.

You can have it. I would rather have the snow.

 

[paintballwebs]

Thundersnow is very cool but kind of scary. Especially when you notice it standing at the top of a ski hill. I don't think that I have ever boarded to the bottom so fast.

 

[Homerboy]

As of 3pm... we're closed. MCTS be damned!
(nice accident right on Wisconsin Ave BTW)>

 

[paintballwebs]

Originally posted by: Homerboy
As of 3pm... we're closed. MCTS be damned!
(nice accident right on Wisconsin Ave BTW)>

Congrats enjoy a few extra hours off. Get home safe and then :beer:

 

[Gigantopithecus]

Left for class this morning at 8am, didn't take any longer than usual to get to campus. Heard on radio during the way in that UW-Milwaukee was closing. When I left at 11am, roads were abysmal; took me four times as long as normal to get home. The Beltline here in Madison hadn't even been plowed - there were 4 cars off the road & in the ditch in a two mile stretch. I canceled my evening lab section when I finally made it home, but looks like UW-Madison is now closed for the evening. What a pita. Gotta reschedule lab... The children must learn Hardy-Weinberg, they must!

Have fun in the snow, fellow cheeseheads!

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Madison has gotten about 10" so far... but it looks like it about to move out of our area finally... I've had enough winter!

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

This snow is great! I am just extremely disappointed this could not happen tomorrow when I have three 160 minute classes.

 

[elektrolokomotive]

Threads like this make me glad that I no longer live in Chicago.

 

[xanis]

I wish I was getting snow. It's currently 66°F here in Philly.

 

[Iron Woode]

this snow storm is heading for us right now.

We just got 3 straight hours of freezing rain and sleet combined with high winds. Environment Canada has issued a heavy snowfall warning, predicting up to 20 cm of snow.

My car is covered under an inch of ice and sleet.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

oh boy. 4 weeks of tahoe in a row... need to take a break...