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Old 02-25-2008, 01:36 PM
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This is a weird one... I'm not sure how much we're going to get. A guy I work with who swears by the NWS's models, says it shifting south... he bet me a buck we'll get 2 inches...

The thaw out was nice, but I figured we'd have at least one more of these bad boys...
I hate the thaw-outs... nasty salty mud/slush puddles everywhere. Fouled-up shoes, fouled-up floormats in the cars, fouled-up pant cuffs.... ugh. That's why I only want to do it once in any given winter once we've accumulated a bunch of snow. Once we get our "big thaw" I'm ready for winter to be over. I don't like having to do "the big thaw" more than once.
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Old 02-25-2008, 02:25 PM
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I hate the thaw-outs... nasty salty mud/slush puddles everywhere. Fouled-up shoes, fouled-up floormats in the cars, fouled-up pant cuffs.... ugh. That's why I only want to do it once in any given winter once we've accumulated a bunch of snow. Once we get our "big thaw" I'm ready for winter to be over. I don't like having to do "the big thaw" more than once.
Oh heck yeah. I enjoy winter, but after this weekend I was ready for winter to be over. It was warm enough to just wear a hoodie, I went hiking for almost 2 hours and was comfortable. I even saw some little bugs running around. Then I got word of this storm that we're gonna get tonight and I was, um, pissed? I think thats the word to describe it.
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Old 02-25-2008, 04:33 PM
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Oh, man, watch out, if Steve-o's complaining, this has been a bad winter

Spring's a-comin, hang in there everybody
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Old 02-25-2008, 08:39 PM
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It was the weather, the Bears, and Mike Royko that everyone talked about.
I also remember the night Chicago flooded and it took almost 5 hours to get from the Navy Pier to Berwin. Looking back, it is one of the few times I wished I had a camcorder - but they either were not available then. or they were unaffordable - because the lighting strikes over the city were awesome to watch. Since it was my first real storm in the city, I had no inkling of the thunderstorm that about to devour the city. If it wasn't the mother of all summer storms it should at least rank very high on the list of near misses.

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Old 02-25-2008, 10:01 PM
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...I also remember the night Chicago flooded and it took almost 5 hours to get from the Navy Pier to Berwin...
What night was the night Chicago flooded? You mean the downtown man-induced flood? I can think of over a many of heavy rainstorms and thunderstorms that proved havoc for traffic and the airports...Which one are you talking about?
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Old 02-25-2008, 10:03 PM
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Well so far depending on where you live we have 1-3 inches. It looks like the weathercasters were not wrong...Downtown does not really count in snowfall totals...
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Old 02-25-2008, 10:05 PM
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This winter is nothing lol I can think of at least 15 that I have been alive during that were far worse.
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Old 02-26-2008, 09:00 AM
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This winter is nothing lol I can think of at least 15 that I have been alive during that were far worse.
Well, we've broken snowfall records, and WI is WAY above average. I think this winter definitely gets the "worst winter ever" award.

I think we got around 5-6" last night here in the western burbs.
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Old 02-26-2008, 10:23 AM
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Today is the 25th of February, and the 6" of white stuff passed us by and only dumped a couple of inches. However the promised northwind is howling at my front door.as I type thie. To me the 33 degrees feel like -150 degrees on my bare legs.

Wind and cold aside, I can look out my back yard and see a perfect field of white broken only by old pine and even older bare-branch trees. And that is what makes this stuff bearable until spring. .
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Old 02-26-2008, 11:04 AM
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Well, as has been stated upteen times now, the winter 78-79 still was the worst ever by statistics, but as I was just building snow caves all day back then I wasn't bothered as much by it. Skilling said that on average 22% of the year's snow falls after this date, so we still have a bunch to get through. If we have no more snow we're still the 2nd highest ever number of days with measurable snow in a winter, and we're 5th highest snow total ever. That's going to move up over next few weeks.

But, we're still way better than say the average winter in Buffalo so it's all good. Spring's a coming.
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