anyone else already sick of winter?

[Connonym]

I can't stand this shit. I swear once my kids turn 18 I'm moving somewhere with no snow.

[HereSince1628]

1. It's not even Winter yet. You can't even let the Season-Elect get into office before you criticize

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some of us have waited months for this, and we don't want to see it spoiled by you leftist malcontent curmudgeons.



No offense intended...it's just a blast to pick up prevailing thoughts from DU and drop them into new places!

[WyoHiker]

2. Depends on where, I guess

I know the SE has had a about a week of snow, but is that so unusual?

I work outdoors as a land surveyor in the SW and so far it has been "mild"; We haven't dipped below zero and it's already the second week in December! I haven't even needed to strap on the coveralls.

So, ah..., no. Not sick of it yet. (But, ask again 'bout SuperBowl Time.)


Apropo of nothing: Saturday Evening's sunset here was amazing. Wyo does have a couple of advantages.






RK



My Bad, Yeah... Winter in Wisconsin (Not Wyoming) probably sucks!!!

Once your kids are grown, you should move here to get away from all that snow and cold.

[dembotoz]

3. keep looking for the silver lining to global warming.

New York city may flood, but if i can avoid snow and slippery roads around here, i would not be as concerned as i should....

[fudge stripe cookays]

4. Not yet.

Although it did hit earlier this year.

I was so sick of seeing NO CHANGE, EVER. I'm so excited to see actual seasons. To know they exist!

Down south it's hot, hotter, hottest. One can only stand so much 104 degrees; guess it's kind of the reverse of here. You don't want to go outside then either, but there's more danger of frying your ass on hot leather than scraping your car out of an icy ditch. To each his own, I guess!

[Callalily]

5. I'm sitting tight hoping

for the big snow storm to hit good enough that at the very least, I can go into work late on Tuesday.

[jellen]

6. winter

;.I just hope it snows enough so I don't have to go to work tomorrow.

[Nipper1959]

7. If it wasn't for

curling, winter would suck completely!

[dembotoz]

8. ditto for hockey

my kid plays not me......

good lordy not me......

go ice dogs

[Sabriel]

9. I'll let you know after I shovel the mountain at the end of my driveway

The plow just went by.... Ack!

[ewagner]

10. Let's see....

20 minutes of shoveling off the porch in preparation for snow blowing....

15 minutes of swearing at the snowblower to get it to start....

an hour of running the snowblower this morning....

then another 20 minutes shoveling the SECOND gift the snow plow left me...


Yeah....

I'd say Winter pretty much sucks....

[PeaceNikki]

11. I want it to die a slow and painful death.

It's never gonna stop snowing!

It just keeps snowing.

It's been snowing for 24 hours.

[Connonym]

12. Gah, now I'm even more sick of it. I hate shoveling

our snowblower has a leaky fuel line and I'm working 15 hours a day right now so pretty much time shoveling is time away from getting a decent amount of sleep. I'm going to be 100% bitch by the time winter is over.

[jfoust]

49. Mine's fine.

My snowblower only leaks when I turn it upside-down.

[HelenWheels]

13. Find a curling club near you and give it a try

It's relatively inexpensive and while you play on ice you're indoors so there's no wind. It's a great social outlet too.

Alpine Curling Club
1319 31st Avenue, P.O. Box 561
Monroe, WI 53566
Phone: [phone]
Sheets of ice: 2

Club President: Harold Marzolf


Appleton Curling Club
307 N. Westhill Boulevard
Appleton, WI 54914
Phone: [phone]
Sheets of ice: 4

Club President: Dave Jarmuz


Arlington Curling Club
207 Pierce Street
P.O. Box 224
Arlington, WI 53911
Phone: [phone]
Sheets of ice: 3

Club President: Gary Hellenbrand


Blackhawk Curling Club
P.O. Box 812
1400 Craig Avenue
Janesville, WI 53545
Phone: [phone]
Sheets of ice: 3

Club email: [e-mail]

Club president: Tony Jacobson


Centerville Curling Club
Route 1, Highway 54/93
Trempealeau, WI 54661
Phone: [phone]
Sheets of ice: 4

Club President: Ron Severson


Clintonville Curling Club
65 Sixth Street
Clintonville, WI 54929
Phone: [phone]
Sheets of ice: 2

Club President: Mark Schultz


Eau Claire Curling Club
5330 Fairview Lane
P.O. Box 1381
Eau Claire, WI 54702
Phone: [phone]
Sheets of ice: 4

Club President: Pat Hayde


Green Bay Curling Club
781 Potts Avenue
Green Bay, WI 54304
Phone: [phone]
Sheets of ice: 3

Club President: Mike Hannon


Kettle Moraine Curling Club
2360 Oakwood Road
P.O. Box 244
Hartland, WI 53029
Phone: [phone]
Sheets of ice: 5

Club President: Ron Kase


Loch Wissota Curling Club
2805 Fourth St.
Eau Claire, WI 54703

Mailing address: c/o Club President Jonathan Stolp
Phone: [phone]
Sheets of ice: 1 (outdoor)


Lodi Curling Club
704 Fair Street
Lodi, WI 53555
Phone: [phone]
Sheets of ice: 2

Club President: Paul Johnson


Madison Curling Club
4802 Marsh Road

P.O. Box 386
McFarland, WI 53705-0505
Phone: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]
Sheets of ice: 6

Club President: Randy Blumer


Marshfield Curling Club, Inc.
P.O. Box 35
1500 South Vine Avenue
Marshfield, WI 54449
Phone [phone]
Sheets of ice: 3

Club President: Chris Jockheck

Club profile


Medford Curling Club
525 South Whelen Avenue
Medford, WI 54451
Phone: [phone]
Sheets of ice: 4

Club President: Kate Metz


Milwaukee Curling Club
10823 North River Road
Mequon, WI 53092
Phone: [phone]
Sheets of ice: 4

Club President: Bert Fredericksen

Club email: [e-mail]


Pardeeville Curling Club
203 Second Street, P.O. Box 442
Pardeeville, WI 53954
Phone: [phone]

Club email: [e-mail]
Sheets of ice: 2

Club President: Steve Balsiger


Portage Curling Club
107 Albert Street
Portage, WI 53901
Phone: [phone]
Sheets of ice: 4

Club President: Michelle Kornaus


Poynette Curling Club
206 East Hudson Street
Poynette, WI 53955
Phone: [phone]
Sheets of ice: 2

Club President: Mark Kretzmann


Racine Curling Club
1914 Melvin Avenue
Racine, WI 53404
Phone: [phone]

Club email: [e-mail]
Sheets of ice: 2

Club President: James Mataczynski


Rice Lake Curling Club
912 S. Wisconsin Ave.

P.O. Box 45
Rice Lake, WI 54868
Phone: [phone]

Club email: [e-mail]

Sheets of ice: 4

Club President: Ron Parker


Stevens Point Curling Club
1628 Country Club Drive
P.O. Box 824
Stevens Point, WI 54481
Phone: [phone]
Sheets of ice: 2

Club President: Iain Journeaux


Superior Curling Club
4700 Tower Avenue
P.O. Box 565
Superior, WI 54880-0565
Phone: [phone]
Sheets of ice: 4

Club President: Mike Britton


Tri-City Curling Club
P.O. Box 751
Hurley Street and Second Avenue South
Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54494
Phone: [phone]
Sheets of ice: 2

Club President: Jon Neidhold


Waukesha Curling Club
911 East Roberta Avenue
Waukesha, WI 53186
Phone: [phone]
Sheets of ice: 3 sheets

Club President: Bill Hoppenjan


Waupaca Curling Club
216 S. Franklin, P.O. Box 22
Waupaca, WI 54981
Phone: [phone]
Sheets of ice: 4

Club President: Keith Murie


Wausau Curling Club
Marathon Park
P.O. Box 627
Wausau, WI 54401
Phone: [phone]
Sheets of ice: 5

Club President: Susan Sandquist


Wauwatosa Curling Club, Inc.
7300 Chestnut Street
Wauwatosa, WI 53213
E-mail: [e-mail]
Phone: [phone]
Sheets of ice: 4

Club president: Scott Matchette

[ClassWarrior]

20. Do you curl, Helen? I've long wanted to try it.

Thanks for the info. I've contacted one of the clubs in my area. I'll keep you posted.

NGU.

[tanglefoot]

14. Sick up and fed

Minus seven effing degrees this morning - after the sun had already been up more than an hour. It's shaping up to be a depressingly suicidal winter.

[ewagner]

15. Did you see the Weather Channel?

one of their meteorologists was awfulizing the weather in Fargo because the wind chill was -30 and the air temp was -7.....

awwwwwwwww

poor things.....they think its some kind of disaster...

[keroro gunsou]

26. wind chill of

-30 and -7 air temp?

pussies.

[undeterred]

16. 38 degree drop will happen between tonight and tomorrow...

http://www.wunderground.com/US/WI/Madison.html

[Connonym]

17. Mother Nature is a cruel and sadistic bitch n/t

[PeaceNikki]

18. It was 46° yesterday afternoon. Now... it's 2°.

[ewagner]

19. 41 Degrees at 4 PM

+7 at 8 PM.....

So....the rain that accompanied the 41 degree weather dripped off of my garage door and puddled at the foot of the door....and seeped under the rubber weather-stripping....

this morning...-7 degrees with a wind chill of -27 and guess what happened to that rain water under the weather stripping? You got it...I was out there at 6:45 with a scraper trying to break the ice loose so I could open the %$#^& garage door!

very funny Ma Nature, Very, very funny!

[ewagner]

21. Ahhhhh...Winter in Wisconsin

brilliant blue winter skies...

A soft layer of snow making gently rolling drifts in the back yard....

and the sweet, sweet sound of the snow plow, filling your driveway with another 2 foot ridge of snow and slush!

'tis a privilege to live here, I tell ya!

[htuttle]

23. Hey, it's still just 'Late Fall'

Another BEAUTIFUL autumn day!

[undeterred]

22. I would like to thank the City of Madison for placing a 3ft wall of snow

at the foot of my driveway. Good to know that if I am ever able to get my car out, the street was clear at some point.

[undeterred]

27. Well somebody came along with a snow mover

and scooped out the wall of snow in about 2 minutes... then my neighbor helped me with the rest with his snowblower. My back is grateful.

[htuttle]

28. I just shoveled about 200 cubic feet of snow from the end of my driveway on Willy St

...And that was only the part between the sidewalk and the curb. The drift was about 4 feet high and 7 feet deep.

The plows will screw it up again tonight, but if I left it there, I'd have a full-on ice glacier to remove by tomorrow morning. It's supposed to drop near zero later.

I don't care if it's only 2pm. I'm having a beer...

[undeterred]

29. Aargh

I got stuck in a parking lot this morning... lots of places aren't well cleared. I heard the wind chill will be minus forty tomorrow- so today was the day to go out and get things done.

[Shiver]

42. I know a guy with the streets department

I'll pass on your complaint.

[htuttle]

24. Deleted Message

#$^&@^*(@!!!!!!!



!!!

[eyesroll]

25. My car is now about four blocks from here. Why?

I dug it out (it was actually simple to get out, strangely enough) but realized that there was nowhere nearby to park. The plow had come through once and dug a channel through the road, but neither the even side or the odd side (odd is correct for tonight) were passable. The only parking spot on my street was the one my car was occupying--and a plow would surely bury it overnight.

So, I went to a nearby through street that had been plowed and put my car there. (I don't park in spots that people painstakingly dig out for themselves, but this street was relatively clear, edge-to-edge.)

Tomorrow, I need to move it back before the next round overnight.

Grr.

[ewagner]

30. Joy oh joy!

It's snowing like hell again....already losing sight of the street....


%$$##^&*


My snow blower cashed it in on thursday so I bought a new...right brand spanking new blower on Friday....my wife says that's OUR Christmas present....I guess I've had worse.....

[eyesroll]

31. There were carolers singing "Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow" on Downer Ave. today.

They surrounded a Salvation Army kettle, and the bell ringer was ringing in rhythm.

I wanted to slug them all.

[Connonym]

32. I would have kicked them in the shins

[ewagner]

33. Bah! Humbug! anyone? n/t

[Connonym]

34. Scrooge McConnonym reporting for duty :-P

[htuttle]

35. Aaaaaiiiiiaaaaaaaaah, aaaaah! Aaaaaiiiiiaaaaaaaaah, aaaaah!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApxnAr6pRt0

Just tried to shovel again. The first 3/4 inch or so that fell yesterday evening before it got really cold is now rock hard. I had icicles in my beard within 10 minutes of going out there.

I think I'm losing it...

[sickofcomplacence]

36. thanks for sending the viking kittens to cheer a hermit up

while i hibernate in my home, waiting out this miserable weather!!!

you're a brave one, attempting to shovel today...but what's the point? it'll just blow right back into place once you're finished, won't it?

[htuttle]

37. So I discovered

Some days you get the snow. Other days, the snow gets you.

I gave up and made some food instead...

[AllyCat]

38. Nah. I love snow. The bitter cold is a bit much, but the snow is pretty

I'd rather it was white and crisp than brown, grey, and dead-looking.

[Jimbo S]

39. Fuck this. My flight to Tampa leaves Tuesday morning.

Every man for himself!

[mojowork_n]

40. Run, dude, run

The rope around your wrists BROKE.

Get those feet pumping and RUN.

You can ESCAPE, if you just keep running.

Once you get down to Florida, Wisconsin's going to have a
heat wave, all the snow up here will have melted by New
Year's Day... It'll be a mild winter, through January and
February, like we were so used to having -- until last year.

...NO, wait, I think I'm confusing your ESCAPE ATTEMPT, with
that short story by Ambrose Bierce,

http://fiction.eserver.org/short/occurrence_at_owl_cree...

[fudge stripe cookays]

41. I'm still recuperating.

Monday morning, my beloved spouse had neglected to put more gas in the car, so he had a frozen fuel line (he's out of practice-- he was the one warning ME last year not to let it get under half a tank!)

Our problem? We have a single, one lane driveway, and the non-functional vehicle was in front. Of course. So I was going to have to drive the old man to work, but we had to get his car out of the way first!

The next hour was spent pushing the non-functional vehicle down to the street, then trying to push one direction, dig, push some more, aim, dig, push some more, aim and dig to at least get the damned thing parked in front of one of the neighbor's houses, and not blocking either our driveway or the street. Did I mention the driveway and our street are on a hill? Only a slight one on the street, but enough that one relatively strong 40 year old man and his 42 year old wife (with MS) were fighting to get the damned thing aimed.

I freaking dug my neighbors out TWICE this past week, but none of them were up yet. Instead we have people driving by gawking. But no one stopped. Fuckers. My pectoral muscles and thighs are STILL throbbing.

The best part? We had just gotten the stupid thing parked, and were preparing for the trip to reprehensor's job. Our Civic is a bit quirky in that the key won't come out of the ignition unless the steering wheel is turned the right way. So when I went to get the key out, I had to turn it a bit in the ignition as I turned the steering wheel. Freaking thing started right up. I began laughing hysterically.

Hate's a pretty strong word for winter, but I know by February I'm gonna be losing it.

[Nipper1959]

43. I have had about enough of this shit

Fucking snow fell like cement last night. Fucking plow just went by, again. Fucking neighbors NEVER clear the snow from the communal mail box array. Fuckers.

[undeterred]

44. Woohoo! Its 46 degrees and its all melting!

Please, all of it, melt.

[ewagner]

45. Just got back

from Christmas in North Central Indiana....3 inches of f-ing ICE!!!...drove home through 1/4 mile visibility in fog...

[ewagner]

46. New Year's Eve....

Weather channel says:

Air Temp = -6 F
Wind Chill = -24

Tomorrow's forcast: %$#&^ SNOW!

[undeterred]

47. Today was the absolute worst.

Not so cold when I got up but a thin sheet of ice over everything. Treacherous to walk or drive.

[ewagner]

48. I know

I tried to chip it out of my driveway but broke one of the plastic shovels trying to do it....the steel coal shovel just slid right over the top.