I wish we had snow here. We have the cold, just not the white stuff. I feel like if I have to put up with the cold, I might as well get something good out of it. However, I would get sick of it everday.

The good news is that we are suppose to reach 40 this weekend.

The same is true for the south and southeast sides of all the great lakes. Western Michigan is getting hammered today.

The only time we in the Detroit Area feel it is on the back side of the storms when we get the effects from Lake Erie if the wind is coming from the right direction.

We didn't get any snow at all here last year. We've had a pretty cold winter so far, so I'm expecting at least one snow shower here in the next few weeks.

And here, 1/4" of snow = school closings everywhere + rush to store for bread and milk + shitty drivers. We've even had closings for anticipated snow that never actually fell.

That sounds like Seattle. You MIGHT expect Seattle to get snow -- after all, it's pretty far north. But it's temperate enough up there that snow actually falls rather rarely.

When it does, though, look out. When I was living there we had an inch, and it was an absolute disaster. Being from Pittsburgh, I'm all to familiar with the white stuff, so I hopped in my car and headed out to work. On the way I got to see such amusing sites as the snowplow driver who didn't know what he was doing, and left a (comparatively ) huge pile of snow in the middle of an intersection when he turned. People spinning and sliding all over the place (including the one guy who spun out to the side of the road in front of me. I passed him, and then looked in my rear view mirror in time to see him spin AGAIN. Too funny...)

I love driving in snow. I'm not afraid of it. What I AM afraid of is the other people, because so many of them either drive dangerously slow ("ooh, snow, I'd better not pass that snail...") or think they can just drive as if it weren't there. Even in Pittsburgh -- I think people have to relearn, every year.

Oh, and it's snowed almost every day here, too...

Snow is cool. Winter is the shit. There are more places to get warm in the winter than there are places to get cool in the summer. That being said, the coldness can go somewhere. I need my temp in the 20s or 30s.

Last night, I was hating life. I parked about 250 yards away from Lake Erie for my job. That lake effect FREEZING snow was smaking my face as I was walking to my car. I had to take shelter so I could learn how to breathe again. That shit I could do without.

As for two weeks on the new JO and snowing daily, suck it Pizzie. You're my boy, but you get no sympathy from me. I do the drive from Canton.

Do you still park way the hell down by the Browns Stadium? That's nuts. Doesn't Tower City have parking or do they rape you there?