Rant; Winter 2013/14

[33anda3rd]

About an inch of snow expected tomorrow night. I'll bet it's April before we get rid of this crap. I'm starting to see bare spots in the back(south facing), but the front is solid snow pack. Sick .... of .... it.

The wind, cold and snow last night was fine with me. It got all the morons out drinking since 10am off the streets. No passing out on a sidewalk yesterday. Darwinism'll get ya if ya do.

[lukethedrifter]

blustery, wet and cold today

[jim]

Usually in March around here you sense a battle between spring and winter, and you since spring has the upper hand. Right now, winter has spring in an arm bar and is about ready to snap it's shoulder right off of his arm. There is no hint of spring at all. Lots of patches of grass, but plenty of snow left to remind us of the winter. And cold - the cold that causes my skin to split. I was working outside without gloves for a while this weekend and I have two cuts on my hands that are nothing but dry skin splitting open.

[jim]

Just had the White Sox grounds keeper on the news, they are chipping ice away still in parts of the field and can't get it. They are putting heaters on the infield with tarps - he said this is unprecedented. 1" of snow coming and a polar vortex over the weekend.

Never heard of that [expletive] term until this winter, and now it's like every other week. Polar [expletive] vortex.

[33anda3rd]

The lowest I've seen for the next 10 days is like high 28/low 24 or something on Sunday, with everything else in the 30s/40s. I think we're done votexing polarly this year.

At least I hope so. Boy do I hope so.

[Jocephus]

Just had the White Sox grounds keeper on the news, they are chipping ice away still in parts of the field and can't get it. They are putting heaters on the infield with tarps - he said this is unprecedented. 1" of snow coming and a polar vortex over the weekend.

Never heard of that [expletive] term until this winter, and now it's like every other week. Polar [expletive] vortex.

"This has actually been the perfect storm for me," Chicago White Sox groundskeeper Roger Bossard said. "I've been in this for 45 years and I've seen a lot of snow. Certainly, that's not hard to handle. ... My problem actually is the permafrost. I've actually never run into where I've got 30 inches of permafrost."

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10634 ... zen-fields

[33anda3rd]

Yesterday was glorious. 52 and sunny. Took the puppy for her first trip to the dog park. Had tacos outdoors. Good day.

[jim]

How bad of a place do you live in when you say a day was *glorious* because it was 52 and sunny. I'm not arguing with the description of the day btw. The word, relatively speaking, fits.

Think about that.

Back to reality, not glorious by anyones imagination. Feo.

[33anda3rd]

After this winter: glorious.

Normally: meh.

Daily: I try to figure out why I moved back here from SF.

[IMADreamer]

The extended forecast looks great if you like cold and [expletive] weather.