Winter Weather!!

Sooooooo excited!!!!Jess is too so

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A WINTERSTORM WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY EVENING THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON- LOCALLY HEAVY SNOWFALL MAY OCCUR SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL OF 8 TO 10 INCHES WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS NEAR A FOOT WILL OCCUR

Time to get the snowblower ready.

Time to fly south for the winter.

Blackie Kuhn wrote:

Time to fly south for the winter.

Im STOKED!!! Oh ya STOKED!!!!

Sucks to be ya'll. We're just going to have a little rain here in Wichita... not even going to get near freezing.

Ever notice that whenever the weatherman says "snow" or "tornado," people in Hays say, "Yeah, right."

Thats cause Ellis Co is in some sort of weather bubble!!!!! We are protected against weather for some reason!

wilkykav2 wrote:

STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL OF 8 TO 10 INCHES WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS NEAR A FOOT WILL OCCUR

Ist verboten!! Ratz Christmas lights are not up yet.

YAY SNOW

Yay car wrecks. Yay old ladies breaking their hips falling on the ice. Yeah old men having heart attacks shoveling snow. Yay an ear infection that won't clear up till spring. Yay power outages. Yay getting stranded on country roads. Yay tearing mufflers off on Hays streets that don't get plowed.

2 or 3 inches at a time that'll be off the streets and sidewalks fast and only after all the lights are up would look nice but no more. Otherwise F@#K SNOW!!

That's my 2 cents.

All that sucks-but I still love snow

Passing Dorrance on the interstate right now. No snow here.

Not supposed to start until tomorrow late morning.

I hope we get a bunch!

Snow Sucks

Back in high school, a friend of mine and I had many adventures trying to defy the snow and go out driving anyway. We'd load down his trunk with cinder blocks and any other kind of heavy things we could find laying around (which DID help) before heading out into the winter wonderland of white, cold, nasty shit. I remember a lot of sliding around aimlessly, and I remember distinctly getting stuck in a ditch one time and having to have some old guy help us dig one of the tires out. Though, I think I may have been driving on THAT particular trip...whoops, never mind that last part!

Anyway, as I was saying, there are a myriad of reasons to loathe snow. "But it closes down school!" you say. "It's fun to play in!" or "It looks so pretty all over the ground!" Who the hell cares? It's cold as shit, it's miserable to be in, it looks like crap when it's all brown and muddy in misshapen heaps on the side of the grimy salted road, and most of all, it GETS IN MY WAY. I HATE things that get in my way, be it snow or people who don't know how to drive. Nobody around here knows how to drive and you can't go anywhere without passing twenty accidents, even if you're staying within the bounds of your own neighborhood. Icy, snow conditions just plain suck for driving

The absolute WORST (and no doubt the most pathetic) thing about snow though in my area is that the very SECOND that it's announced on the radio or television, the bumbling HORDE of humanity flows forth from their homes with riot-like urgency, just so they can get to the grocery store to buy bread and milk! Even the old man comes down from the mountain to get in my way when I'm trying to get to work! Or I'll be in the store doing some REAL shopping when the swarm decides to drop in and rush the place like a mob of starving Ethiopians.

I'm puzzled. What exactly is it about milk that apparently makes it NECESSARY for survival?? Is this something you can't live without for two days, even though the old carton you had was already forming lumps from its complete lack of use in the back of the fridge? Look at vegans, they live without milk ALL the time and they get by. If you can call their frail withering frames any sort of "life" at all, that is. Okay, bad example. I just destroyed my own argument. Alright, you can HAVE your milk! Just stay OUT of my way when you're getting it! The fact remains, that carton of milk will go lumpy too (especially after the power goes out), and snow STILL sucks.

It's not just bread and milk. How about pop tarts,pizza rolls and pepsi.can't go a day without that shit.

All those that love snow obviously aren't hampered by it or haven't spent enough time behind a shovel...Bring on some rain!

The snow we get in Kansas isnt NOTHING compared to other places Ive been, the last couple of years ive been thankful just to see the snow around here.

Blackie Kuhn wrote:

All those that love snow obviously aren't hampered by it or haven't spent enough time behind a shovel...Bring on some rain!

When I was a kid I used to think it was great, but that's only because I knew the warmth and safety of the house was close by. But I was younger, healthier, and hadn't seen the bad side of it yet.

I don't mean to bring anyone down who can see some fun in it. By all means have a good time. I'll sit here with my plugged up ear hoping it doesn't get infected and make plans on how I might put up lights if it's a light snow with a quick warm up.

looks like as usual Hays isnt going to get anything

shovels? I don't need no stinking shovels....... I have a snow blower

LukeTHr wrote:

shovels? I don't need no stinking shovels....... I have a snow blower

I was looking at those in Hays Friday when a guy was loading one up he just bought. Looked at a chainsaw, Christmas yard displays, and ladders too. Which will I be needing first?

FML. where's the snow-once again.

Ratzilla wrote:

LukeTHr wrote:

shovels? I don't need no stinking shovels....... I have a snow blower

I was looking at those in Hays Friday when a guy was loading one up he just bought. Looked at a chainsaw, Christmas yard displays, and ladders too. Which will I be needing first?

at the rate the snow forcast keeps getting reduced, it won't be a snowblower

Maybe the ladder now. They can't make up their minds as usual. First they forecast rain, then a couple inches of snow, then heavy snow, then back to light snow. I wondered where they figured heavy snow was going to be coming from when the same forecasters were saying temps in the mid 30's.

I was prepared to start messing with indoor Christmas set ups, but now I think I'll get out the outdoor stuff and start changing bad bulbs out.

wilkykav2 wrote:

FML. where's the snow-once again.

There's likely going to be some light snows moving in soon. As soon as the lights are up and Thanksgiving is done, then you can have your big snow.

Trust me and don't beg for big snows early or you'll spend the winter bitching about how cold it is and the ice that won't melt, cars that won't start, frozen pipes, and bad streets that never got cleaned.

Big snows in Feburary or March go away fairly soon, but right now days are getting shorter and the ground may soon be cold enough to maintain an ice sheet. And since a snow pack lowers daily highs by 10 to 20 degrees I'm not anxious to see a big one this early.

well, there ya go, the snow all missed us.......hope you're all happy

I'm happy!

I'm happy!

Great! It appears, we're going to be getting what you were supposed to. 4-8 inches (hush, Nitro and Ratz) of snow predicted for Jackson County. It is snowing as I type. YUCK!

Ratzilla wrote:

The weather here in KC has been weird all day. I left Gardner this morning and there was a little sleet falling. I was up on I-35 near Johnson Dr earlier and it was snowing a bit but now it has quit and is quite chilly here.

They knew how it was supposed to be 100 years ago.

Thanksgiving should look like this.










Christmas should look like this.









Your snow will come. Let it come when it's supposed to.

Are we supposed to dress funny like that?

Degeneration X wrote:

The weather here in KC has been weird all day. I left Gardner this morning and there was a little sleet falling. I was up on I-35 near Johnson Dr earlier and it was snowing a bit but now it has quit and is quite chilly here.

Its been sleeting and flurries here since about 8 this evening and it rained here most of the day just like DX said, its very wet, I'm sure the roads will be TERRIBLE tomorrow. I wasn't ready for winter.
Suz- have fun with your snow!
Hays- sorry about your luck

Justoo wrote:

Are we supposed to dress funny like that?

I meant those cards are how the weather should look on each holiday. You don't have to dress any funnier than usual.

Justoo dresses funny anyway.

Ratzilla wrote:

They knew how it was supposed to be 100 years ago.

Thanksgiving should look like this.










Christmas should look like this.









Your snow will come. Let it come when it's supposed to.

Beautiful-I love old-timey stuff!!

Can we arrange it so that much snow falls on the yards of those who want snow while 80 degree weather and girls in bikinis show up on the yards of those who don't?

if you want 80 degrees and girls in bikinis this time of year, you need to go to florida or someplace farther south. Kansas is not the place it is likely to happen

LukeTHr wrote:

if you want 80 degrees and girls in bikinis this time of year, you need to go to florida or someplace farther south. Kansas is not the place it is likely to happen

I'm not likely to have a yard full of bikini girls any time of year. But you can wish any time of year.

you can wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first

LukeTHr wrote:

you can wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first

My dad always said that, but I'll stick to wishing in one hand. The politicians, bankers, bosses, and alot of others probably claim right to fill the other.