OH MY GOD IT’S SNOW!!

November 28, 2005


Scooped again!

I was just going to comment on the mass hysteria that seems to befall our city whenever a half-inch of snow covers the streets. I heard it all day yesterday — people were calling in to work and asking what the policy and repercussions would be for showing up late, for not coming in, for being waylaid by the horrible snow.

Well, I woke up this morning to see a light dusting of snow. Not 6-12 inches. Only a powdery layer that was melting once it hit the sidewalk. Media be damned — the city wasn’t shut down by snow!

It was a blog post waiting to happen.

But, when I went to my computer to talk about the sensational weather reporting, I found that Todd Epp had beaten me to it.

ACT I–Midweek last week. “My God, there’s a storm coming! We don’t know for sure where or how much, but it’s coming! Prepare!”

ACT II–Day before yesterday. “My God, it’s almost here, It’s almost here! Prepare, prepare, prepare! Oh my God, it’s going to snow!”

Well, it’s okay. His take was a lot funnier than mine. And he gets up earlier in the morning too. Check it out at SD Watch.

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Comments

3 Responses to “OH MY GOD IT’S SNOW!!”

  1. cr00kedview on November 29th, 2005 421 am

    Snow blows. I want a snowblower to blow the snow. I go out in the blowing snow and have to come in and blow my nose from the billowing, blowing wind coming from everywhere but below.

    Wow, I’m tired.

    Snow blows.

  2. eric on November 29th, 2005 331 pm

    corey
    if it makes you feel better, here in mpls they basically made it sound like you guys are covered in ice and noone has power. am i to believe this isnt true? FOR SHAME!!!

  3. Corey Vilhauer on November 29th, 2005 412 pm

    Sorry… I wasn’t able to respond because I’ve been trapped in my car for the past 15 hours. The snow is at least 18 feet high. It’s hard to drive because the plows are forced to burrow tunnels through the streets - tunnels that continue to cave in, killing hundreds of commuters each hour. I was attacked by ice demons that slowly burrowed through my tires and into my car, leaving me within inches of death. I had to eat my fingers to survive, and had to feed my toes to the ice demons to keep them at bay. Eventually, I killed the ice demons with my snow scraper and used thier poisonous blood to melt the snow around my car. I was forced to push it back to my house through the caved in tunnels.

    Now I’m back, but it’s hard to type with just my palms.

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