F U Mother Nature (spring version)

[Racket_Man]

Geez St Louis! Did somebody decide you're evil and need to be punished or something?

This is the second time this week I've turned on the Weather Channel and they're talking about bad storms and damage there. Coincidentally, the last time was the little bitch of a snowstorm we got on Tuesday.

the funny thing is is that when I lived there (up until 20 odd years ago) that area really did NOT get all that shitty weather. it usually went eith far north or south of the area.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Geez St Louis! Did somebody decide you're evil and need to be punished or something?

This is the second time this week I've turned on the Weather Channel and they're talking about bad storms and damage there. Coincidentally, the last time was the little bitch of a snowstorm we got on Tuesday.

[BrenDAnn]

'Twas a grey, dull, rainy, drizzly disgusting day here today. Ugh. All this rain is hampering EVERYONE'S plans--farmers, construction workers, hell even the local race car drivers! Enough already! Where's the sun???

[blas]

Yeah, that was an epic night.

I'll keep my mouth shut about rain if it would just warm up and be seasonal temperatures.

As of the news tonight, we've had over 70 inches of snow in this part of WI this winter. THAT IS EFUCKINGNOUGH ALREADY, over 20 inches more than normal!

Knock it the fuck off now.

[BrenDAnn]

Wow, blas, your driving story made my jaw drop! Thankfully we're just supposed to get rain here...but for the next entire freaking week! Ugh! Can it be summer and nice and hot now please??

[blas]

Snow chances tonight and tomorrow night.

*hiss*

This is sickening. This is the first April that I haven't been able to go outside in a tanktop.

[Becks]

DAMN IT make it stop PLEASE??????

*thinking about it*


Maybe.

I want to say no, but perhaps I'll be nice.

[Racket_Man]

and now most of the slush and "snow" are gone as in melted away during the day.

DAMN IT make it stop PLEASE??????

[Food Lady]

We got 8". We also had thunder so loud it shook the apt and my glasses almost broke--my wineglasses

[blas]

Bren, I know exactly how you feel about the driving. A month ago in March, we had a snowstorm that started with slush/rain, by evening it became hail and snow mixed together

I foolishly drove to work, because I'd already missed two days because of being sick and didn't want to make it three. Anyway, the further north I went, the worse it got. It was whiteout conditions mixed with thunder and lightning!

By the time I wanted to turn around and go back home, I'd already gone too far and felt I should just keep going.

I will say, that was the worst winter driving I had ever experienced, and this is coming from living in Wisconsin my whole life. I mean, I don't know how well I can even describe it.....it was beyond difficult. The roads were completely untouched, because either the city was refusing to clean up until it was done (which they are notorious for doing during night storms) or they prematurely put away all the plows/sand trucks. The roads were so slick and slushy that my car was being pulled towards the ditch. I could not drive a straight line to save my life. Visibility was so bad that I couldn't even see where I was going. I actually started crying the further I drove. I was sure that I was going to go into the ditch or spin out of control. I had a death grip on the wheel and fought every second to stay on the road, and it was just being pulled to one side, and my wheels were just spinning away. I think at one point I was down to 15 mph on the freeway and backroads to the factory. Highway signs were covered in snow, even though I've driven the same roads every night for years, I had no idea if I was even going the right way or if I'd taken the wrong exit.

The next morning, it had all frozen over, and the roads were like a logging trail. Bump bump bump bump bump, slide slide slide slide. It took me almost a half hour to get 2 freaking miles to my parents' house.

[Bella_Vixen]

As I told people while at work, as much as I hate sleet/slush/snow at any time, it's still preferable to the baseball sized hail that St. Louis got.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Maybe a couple inches of snow/slush/slop here. It's already melting and patches of grass are again visible.

But tons of thunder and lightning. My glasses broke last night and I was debating going to the swamp's optical department to have them fixed. But that would've meant cleaning off my car and I didn't want to get hit by lightning. That's not a choice I've ever had to make before.

[BrenDAnn]

I woke up yesterday morning, looked outside, and in my bleary-eyed, half-asleep state, thought it was foggy. Turns out it was SNOWING. In Iowa, The ground was turning white, and we even had thundersnow! My drive to work was probably the worst I have EVER had! Not only was I driving on a good two inches of wet, slushy, slippery snow/ice, but I had a semi driver behind me who didn't know the meaning of proper following distance. The best part was, the plows had been taken OFF of all of the county/state trucks already, so the county/state workers had to scramble to put the plows back ON and clear the roads. FAIL on their part, and a WTF to Mother Nature!

[blas]

Thankfully, we were spared any accumulation last night (there was a tad on my car), but this morning it's snowing a lot heavier and it's sticking to grass and sidewalks, but that's about it.

Thank heavens. I would have probably suffered a mental breakdown if we'd gotten what other areas in WI got.

[Racket_Man]

THUNDER SNOW and lots of mush slop wettness and 6 inches of crap. they finally got the streets plowed AND SALTED around 11pm. yeah a lot of good that did me and my fellow drivers from 4pm to around 10pm (very very busy). I could not drive in a striaght line for nothing.

about 45 years ago in St. Lous (where I grew up) I remember snow flurries on a late April Easter. ( I think I have pics somewhere)

ETA:
Offically we got 9 inches of snow