Snowpocalypse Shopping Shenanigans

[Food Lady]

I thought I'd try to grocery shop before the storm got bad. I hadn't worn my snowboots because I didn't think it was gonna hit so early. So I went to store 1. Totally packed. OK, so my daily latte is very important to me, and I neeeeed my inexpensive, special cocoa powder. They stopped carrying it, and apparently don't carry queso fresco, either. This is the store that has everything. I get my stuff--yay, U-scan!--and make the arduous trip to Store 2, since it's a blizzard now. As I'm turning in, I skid and almost take out the stop sign. Oy, driver on other side of the sign looks nervous for some reason. I right myself and go park. I go in and find nuthin'. OK, back the Store 1. On the way I have to turn around in a parking lot, which is fine, except that I run over a concrete median I don't see because of the snow. So embarrassing. I get back to Store 1, get my stuff, and checkout. I head out to the car, only to fall on my bad knee and lose my car keys in the snow in the process. A nice man, whose daughter is lucky, helps me up and finds my keys. I decide to go home.

Ok, it won't let me add, so mods please combine my posts. Anyway, on the way home I almost blow through a red light 'cause my car just doesn't wanna stop. But I make it home ok and trudge up the stairs with clogs full of snow. Hope blas, Irv, Becks, Bella, and the rest are ok!

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Merged your posts, Food Lady, and all is well.

Glad to hear you managed to make it through . . . luckily for us down here, we've had milder weather and some warmer temps than what we have normally.

Usually I get to see the Snowpacolypse antics from the inside, as I'm usually working when they occur, so it's a rarity for me to be out as a customer when snow is getting ready to fall.

Unless I manage to escape early enough and Mom wants to stop at a couple of places that are on the way home in addition to my emergency smoke stop . . . then it's usually nonstop idiocy on the roads.

[Becks]

Wow. I'm glad you're okay, and I hope your car is, too!!

Hope blas, Irv, Becks, Bella, and the rest are ok!

I'm perfectly fine. Another advantage of continuous unemployment: I don't have to go outside in this if I don't want to.

Bella got to work, thanks to my car and the MOTH. (Like I said above... What? I've never driven in falling snow before, and I didn't feel like starting now!)

[BlaqueKatt]

rain, sleet, freezing rain, snow, snow/rain mix, thundersnow, snow and more freezing rain-in that order since 8am this morning-it's awesome!

currently freezing rain.....yay Madison!

[Food Lady]

Oh, yeah, I forgot you were in Madtown! You have it worse. My car is fine; the snow cushioned the drive over the median.

[blas]

I can't go to work tonight. I slept all day, there's no way I would have gone out in this crap for anything.

Although, it didn't start snowing until nearly 4 hours after it was predicted to start, but once it did, it did not stop. I don't think it's done, just because it's stopped for a few hours. We're under the warning until noon tomorrow, so I'm sure there's more.

It's not 12-15 inches, but it's bad enough that it needs to be shoveled, and 511 advises not to travel.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Geeze, Thursday and Friday I was wearing shorts. Friday it hit eighty.

Little chillier today, though. Had to wear a corduroy blazer. If it does not get cold again, I'll be okay with that.

[Bella_Vixen]

Made it to work safe thanks to Becks' fiance, and made it home safe thanks to Mushroom.

Let's hope that tomorrow, I can actually drive myself to work.

[Food Lady]

Geeze, Thursday and Friday I was wearing shorts. Friday it hit eighty. Little chillier today, though. Had to wear a corduroy blazer. If it does not get cold again, I'll be okay with that.

All I have to say to that is .

[RecoveringKinkoid]

All I have to say to that is .

Yeah, I know. But it made me think maybe all this nasty weather was passing and spring was on it's way.

If it makes you feel any better, it's chilly here and extremely windy now.

[blas]

Chilly? I think I have hypothermia from shoveling. I can't feel my toes.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Uh...yeah...it's sixty right now.

I'm not gonna tell you what today's high is supposed to be.

You know, usually when the weather is bad up north, we do get some of it down here. But then, it's been a weird winter for us. It has been unusually cold for unusually long stints, and we had TWO snowstorms, both bringing snow for a week. For us, that's nuts. I think the warm spate is kind of odd, considering what all's going on elsewhere.

[blas]

Really really bad snowstorms with several inches or feet of accumulation are usually stimulated by fronts from the Gulf. We get "clippers" from Canada that are usually only an inch or two of snow but bitterly cold winds and windchills.

Sixty? Yeah, we won't be seeing that again until probably May. That is, if it ever, and I mean ever, stops snowing and goes above 40 degrees.

[Becks]

Blas, get the hell away from that side of Wisconsin!



Snow stopped for a while this morning, so of course it was time to go grocery shopping (I didn't realize we were running low on necessities or else we could've gone a week ago...). Yeah...started snowing again on the way to De Pere.

On two happy notes, my car handles snow better than I thought (not that I was driving), and it's stopped snowing again.

[blas]

No kidding, directly in the line of fire of whatever Minneapolis/St Paul gets.

Oh look, I have to clean the extra 3 inches of snow that fell today after I already dug myself out.