Showing posts with label Winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winter. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Without Government, Who Would Create A Shortage Of Road Salt?

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The Detroit Free Press:  Salt shortage has Michigan scrambling to keep roads clear Yep, there was a clear lack of planning ahead and...
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Sunday, January 25, 2026

Mixing Alcohol And Cold Has Consequences

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The Detroit News: Body of missing teen recovered in Ann Arbor A completely avoidable death and waste of potential. Leaving a party to go out...
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Friday, January 23, 2026

Time To Sing The Cold Song

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With the temperature now at -1 with a wind chill of -25 at the moment  -- and still dropping, it is time for the cold song: It's Cold.  ...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Brrr

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It's a tad cold out there right now. Heck, it's downright chilly. The Detroit News: Brutal cold keeps icy grip on SE Michigan Some r...
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Thursday, December 12, 2024

First Solid Snowfall of Winter

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So you know it's time for bad drivers and special idiot parking season. What's wrong with this picture? Mr or Ms. Mercedes is in the...
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Monday, March 18, 2024

Time For 3rd Winter

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All that wind on Saturday was from a cold front blowing right on in.   It has brought much lower temperatures and some snow with it. Yep, we...
Saturday, January 01, 2022

Happy 2022! Home Again, Now With Winter Storms

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Made it to Toronto after a late start waiting for the delayed Covid PCR test results (all negative as expected).  Spent New Year's with ...
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Monday, November 29, 2021

That White Stuff On The Ground Means It's Time To Slow Down

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Just enough snow and ice present on the streets this morning to present a problem for the morning commute. It's not a lot and the street...
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Friday, February 19, 2021

New Tires Have A Remarkable Effect

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There's been even more snowfall in the past few days, and I've been stuck driving while its falling more often than not recently.  I...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021

A Little Stuck

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So Abby got stuck in the snow with her car this morning. How stuck?  Completely stuck with wheels spinning fruitlessly stuck. I first tried ...
Sunday, January 24, 2021

Sunday Skating

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So this evening we took the kids to go skating at Blake's Cider Mill for an outside outing.  Good to get off the screens and do some out...
Friday, January 22, 2021

More Michigan Corona-idiocy

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So Governor Half-Whit has announced restaurants can open on February 1 At 25% capacity and with restaurants being required to close at 10pm...
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Friday, December 18, 2020

It's Not Winter Until I Go Sliding Down The Driveway of Doom™

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So yes, as you might expect from the title, it is now officially winter.  Got back from jitsu last night to a very light snowfall. Didn'...
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Thursday, February 27, 2020

Snow Day!

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Another snow day was declared today at 6:23 am, unfortunately after Abby had already gotten up and ready for school at 6am. Even with that ...
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Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Snowstorm Season

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We're finally getting a decent winter storm. Last night they decided to schedule a school snow day for today, which the ids certainly a...
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Saturday, January 18, 2020

Snow Joe: Not Ready For Prime Time

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As I've written before, I have a Snow Joe Pro Model snow blower. They were rather over-optimistic (or outright lying) calling it a pr...
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Thursday, April 11, 2019

Just When You Thought It Was Spring...

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Yes, this morning we woke up to Third Winter: Spring, would ya mind sticking around for awhile, please? Odd that, I was told that snow...
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Sunday, March 31, 2019

Winter Is Coming...Again?

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Probably as an effect for the Game of Thrones Season 8 opener, Winter is not done with us yet. From temperatures that were downright Spri...
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Saturday, March 16, 2019

Winter Isn’t Giving Up Quite Yet

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The past couple days were warm and wet, with rain and snow melting and beginning to feel like spring. So of course this morning winter deci...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Yes School Wednesday - Snow But Without The Snow Day

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Breaking precedent, school was surprisingly not cancelled today. By 6:00 2 inches had already fallen and the snowfall is continuing. Surpr...