So, yeah...this is *before* the big storm hits tonight.

[WilliamPitt]

FML.

[MichiganVote]

1. Pfft...I grew up with snow like that.

[lukasahero]

2. Yes but can we assume you had somewhere to put it?

That's the problem Boston is facing - those are sidewalks - the only place to put the snow is up. :scared:

[Maine-ah]

4. I dunno about Boston,

but here they actually drop it in the harbor. The can only do that for the first 24 hours of a storm, after that it just piles up.

[lukasahero]

27. Actually there's been some big controversy about dumping

into the rivers - you can't dump city snow into the water - there's pollutants in it - they're trucking the snow out of town.

[MichiganVote]

7. Yeah that's pretty much where it went and then we'd build forts and then we'd

pelt the crap out of each other with snowballs.

[madrchsod]

3. well get ready for this one....

the wind is blowing from the east here in northern il....it usually blow from the east on the back side of the storm. i`m getting up to 40?mph straight line snow. it ain`t switched to the north winds predicted up to 60....

[MichiganVote]

8. Its blowing higher in the atmosphere for now but late this eve. it will descend and then

its going to un plow every road that has been plowed.

[orleans]

31. i'm in the western suburbs--we were getting that damn

"thunder snow"
i saw the lightning out two windows and then heard the rumble. ugh.

[BlueJazz]

5. It's 76 here.....but we have lots of idiots to make up for it.

:)

[trof]

6. Tell me about it. I'm in Melrose, MA.

Ain't no place to put mo sno.
They're trucking it out of town now.
To...somewhere?

The sidewalks look like WWWI trenches.
bleh
:-(

[pacalo]

9. Might as well make the most of it & make a lot of these...

[MichiganVote]

13. Good one

[Kaleva]

10. Anyone else find the pic to be .....erotic?

[WilliamPitt]

11. Seek help.

[MichiganVote]

14. For a Walrus maybe.

[Kaleva]

15. I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.

Seriously though, the pic looks like a normal winter evening in parts of the Upper Michigan.

[MichiganVote]

16. Haven't had snow like that in Michigan since 77-78' but yeah, its Michigan like

[MichiganVote]

20. You might enjoy this Mr. Pitt

The photo depicts Negaunee’s Iron Street on March 13, 1899. These men have partially completed a Herculean shoveling task. You can see the “J. Trathen Saloon” in the background, so perhaps that was their eventual stop.

http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/snow-job-shoveling-out-negaunee-and-great-moments-snow-technology/

[WilliamPitt]

21. It's not there yet

but it's creeping close.

I see your pic and raise you the Blizzard of '78:

http://www.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=blizzard%20of%2078&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

I was sledding out a second-floor window when this one was over.

[MichiganVote]

22. That was a biggee. Cool pic's. My husband and I X-Country skiied to work for 2 days.

About 6 miles away. I don't know where I got that energy from.

[WilliamPitt]

24. Youth.

;)

[MichiganVote]

26. No kidding. Ski to work, work 8 hours and then see friends in the evening.

We went sledding at the cemetery up the street that had a small hill and a knoll. And a lot of dead bodies too of course. The guys made it a competition to miss the big headstones and steer around the smaller ones. Wine, snow, friends and stupidity.

We had great fun during that blizzard. Thanks for the memory reminder.

[Yavin4]

28. No, Just You n/t

[Bake]

12. Quit whining, Will. You love it up there and you know it.

Bahston.

:hi:

Bake

[Swede]

17. Got booze?

:shrug:

[WilliamPitt]

18. Got gravity?

;)

[Swede]

30. Then,there's no problem.

:toast:

[Angry Dragon]

19. Those mounds could be made into snow houses

and then rent them out..........

[Paper Roses]

23. I'm just north of you. We have streets that narrow.

Well, almost. By tomorrow it will be the case. Won't be leaving the house for a while, I'm sure. I'm on the bottom of the plowing list. I don't care to be reminded of the blizzard of '78. We could walk out of our second story windows, the snow was at sill level on one side of my house.

We're starting this storm with more on the ground than what the 78 storm dumped on us.

[Lucinda]

25. Wow.

Rooftop sledding this time? :(

[struggle4progress]

29. Isn't that, like, a typical balmy spring day in Boston?