oh man.

i'm supposed to be at work at 2. does anyone else just want to stay home and sleep all day?

Not only do I want to, I am going to. Night Night..

i love the snow. it's so pretty and cold.

All of you people born in "The South" are required to go to Kroger before you hole up. There is still bread and milk... All Yankees have a snow pass. Grab a beer and watch the hi-larity ensue!!!! I'm setting up my lawn chair and Rolling Rocks at I-65 and Harding.... good times. That is all.

(Edited by Peace Frog at 12:20 pm on Jan. 16, 2003)

This is the first mega snow since 1995 in the ol' middle TN. My work has been canceled, my class, this is mega. Now if only MTSU will close up shop tomorrow....

Since I am stuck at home because I know it would be my luck to wreck my car on the way to Kroger, I decided to put on sweatpants and sit on the couch in a blankie watching lame daytime TV.

Has anyone else noticed that channels 2, 4 and 5 have interrupted all regular programming for the past 3 hours in order to show off their proficiency with Stormtracker, Snowbird and Skycam technology?

I just wanted to watch friggin crap TV, but I guess watching interviews with pissed off rednecks wrecked in the snow is just as good.

Snowbird once made a drunken pass at me at Sunset Grill...

I used to know the guy who regularly had his hand up Snow Bird's ass and did all the talking for him. Strange bird.

i have to say that being from the north, this is not mega snow. but it is in comparison to most nashville snows. it's snowing pretty hard out there, and i live on a hill. i went out to go to school and there were 5 cars already in the ditch by 9:15am. i'm not getting on the road with those crazy drivers. so i'll just stay in my cozy apartment and try and find something to do. i think it's funny to watch people from nashville try and drive in the snow, it's pretty terrible. good luck to anyone who has to go to work. be careful. i'm just gonna stay here and use my snow pass....

lol that's what Damon was saying this afternoon (he being from "the Dub Vee"). In all of my life, the only other time that I recall it being this snowy-hectic outside would have to be 1993 (the Ice Storm) and 1995 (the Snow Storm). Of course there was also the torrential flooding that Murfreesboro faced around March of 2002...the only time in my life to get out of school because of rain.

my workplace shut down at 10:30 this morning, and my usual 10-minute-drive home took an hour an a half, thanks to those helpless souls who have no idea that THIS is why your automatic transmission car has 1st and 2nd gear. i've utilized my time off taking a nap and eating pineapples and apple jacks.

sexy sadie, iwantelvis, and myself spent our afternoon roaming around mtsu's campus, finding hills, and using storage box tops as sleds.....it was the most fun i had ever had in the snow....people get really weird when it snows. everyone reverted back to their prehistoric mindset. people were getting into fights and worshiping deities. we saw a gang of kids making a snowman that was about 7 feet tall....it was like something out of "lord of the flies". i expected any moment to see a kid named piggy get crushed by a snow boulder......

(Edited by ray davies at 4:23 pm on Jan. 16, 2003)

i have been strictly confined to my house today. i've been watching the weather like a soap opera, peering out the window at all the sinister-looking kids, and (oddly enough, smee) eating pineapples. i did venture outside to retrieve my history book from the car. the kid inside me couldn't resist stepping out into the snow from undereath the carport for at least a few steps. i really want to build a snowman. but, alas, i am without a playmate. i guess the few lonely footsteps in my yard will remain lonely. oh well, maybe mtsu will be closed tomorrow...?

(Edited by HaveSomeSoma at 4:39 pm on Jan. 16, 2003)

This was indeed a grand time!!

On the way home I saw two foxes getting down and dirty in the snow by an overpass. It was so sweet.... and a little disturbing.

It's snowing like crazy here, too. Classes for tonight are called off, and they will be for tomorrow too, I am sure. YAY! As for tonight, I am going to lay around, watch some movies, and make chili.

In order for them to consider cancelling class up here in Chicago, the windchill needs to be around -30....

We've had inches of snow for months, and though as a Tennesseean I used to love it, I've quickly grown to hate the snow.

Will

i couldn't make it to work today.

so i played in the snow.

i live over near 8th in nashville, so my friend and i hiked over to belmont to meet up with a couple friends. what a hike. holy cow.

we did some damage... you know...

random snowball fights with strangers, sledding on dangerous objects... the usual.

finished it all off with some thai food and a cold one (also from thai). the cold one was to keep warm (odd enough) on the way home. and that it did.

i'm so tired now. and dry. it's so nice.

get warm with someone you love.

josh

That is in the plans for tomorrow hopefully.

Rats...I knew I shouldn't have left...after the mini-snowball fight, I've been cooped up in my room. If there is any snow left tomorrow, we're going all out. I challenge all MTSU-ers to a Snow War.

Just don't aim for my right ear...it has problems...

or maybe we could all just have some virtual messagboard snow fun right now!...

what's that i see over there? why it's tom foolery and stephaniew building a giant snowman! oh, and here comes keith and carligula with a carrot for the nose, they remembered everything!

and who's that over there having seizures on the groud? why it's elt, smee, and jamiecarroll! and those are't seizures, they're snow angels!

watch out everyone! here comes digsy and damon on a sled, and it looks like ray and sexysadie aren't too far behind!

ouch! i just got nailed with a snowball! looks like it came from behind that snowfort...who's in there? why it's ghostlfower! such a trickster, i thought he said he was retiring!

sorry, this was my pathetic attempt for some outdoor fun. thanks for humoring me.


(Edited by HaveSomeSoma at 9:14 pm on Jan. 16, 2003)

That's not for the nose, HSS

By the way, don't ever change your icon. Please.

oh, ok. then it's clearly a snow-unicorn then, right?

That should be illustrated as a children's book and used to warm the hearts of the wee Features fans...

haha...this is so pathetic. a little snow and the people of middle tennessee go nuts. my friends and i used to go driving in snow like this for fun. anything under 5 inches or so is nothing to worry about.

If we have just under 7 inches here, but I'm not worried. Of course it's no fun driving 3 hours to go 10 miles.

My office closed down at 10am but traffic on west end was so bad I decided to wait it out. Some coworkers and I bar-hopped elliston all afternoon, while being paid, it was great. After visits to Friday's (twice), Sherlock Holmes Pub, and Georges I finally decided to drive home, at 6pm. Personal first: semi-intoxicated driving on ice and snow, whooooo-hoooo!

Correction: that should be illustrated and read to the wee Features fans.

ah....the circle of life.....

(Edited by ray davies at 8:42 pm on Jan. 16, 2003)

My day in the snow:

my ultimate warrior snowman could kick the shit out of your hulk hogan snowman....just like at wrestlemania 6.....

(Edited by ray davies at 1:37 am on Jan. 17, 2003)

very true, ray, but we cannot deny that the coolness of the hulkster...come to think about it, we still need a championship belt for our room...

Keith, as I was driving home from work yesterday afternoon, I just saw your snowman out of the corner of my eye. I saw a snowman with some yellow around its torso, and just figured that you guys had built a snowman, then urinated all over it. But now that I have a better look - great job!

Yeah, Keith, that's good work. Stay tuned for pics of my snowman...(you're gonna love this one especially, Lauren).

this much is true.....you have to respect a man with 24 inch pythons....

Keith, your Hulkster snowman is absolutely fabulous!!! Did you consider adding a 10-10-220 sign for him to hold up?

when i first saw this, i thought it said that you were watching me eat pineapples, and it frightened me.

Very nice Keith. I haven't driven by that way yet, I hope it's still intact in a couple minutes when I do.

Don't count on it

Well then.

My little Norwich terrier puppy went outside to do his business yesterday and promptly sank all the way into the powder. You could see some little pointy ears and that was about it. Eventually he got the hang of it, though, and by noon he was bouncing Pepe-La-Peu style all over the yard.

check out my snowman

Oh my god, that's awesome. I'm such a pathetic Floridian that my snowman attempt was more like a snow lump. I saw a snow bunny last week- it seems Sylvan Park has a concentration of snow artists.

Hilarious...

We were gonna make a snow turtle but we decided to roll around on huge balls of snow instead. It was a good time though.

(Edited by iwantelvis at 11:19 am on Jan. 21, 2003)

A fellow labmate said some friends of hers built a snowpenis in her front yard as a prank. She thought it was funny and well done, so she and her fiance kept it.

I heard story about another snowpenis in the vicinity of Vanderbilt. I wonder if it was the same or if there were multiple peni. Any other snowpenis spottings?

My friend Emily at ETSU informed me that there was in fact a snowpenis in front of her dorm. Is snowpenis one word??

I went to a party at an apartment complex near MTSU over the weekend, and there was a rather large complete male anatomy. The piece of art was ruined when enough drunk people decided to "break the cock"

Lol I think all of this year I've seen enough tainted snow creatures for it to ruin the idea of building a snowman for so many little kids...

I've seen snow women with breast, and now I hear about these snow penis's

Well, I guess there are going to be more Snow Hijinks since a blizzard has hit Middle TN again. I swear, I must have wandered in the Twilight Zone...TN never has this much snowfall. As long as MTSU gets either A) Delayed or B ) Let out early again, I'm all for Jack Frost turning Rutherford County into his playground.

(Edited by DigsySlattery at 10:15 pm on Jan. 22, 2003)

It was OK to call it a blizzard last week, because it was by Tennessee standards, but tonight is just a dusting. I am amazed that it has snowed and stuck twice within one week.

That seems to be the pattern here. We'll go two or three years with no snow. Then we'll get several good snows in a month. Very odd.

Tonight's snow is very unusual for Tennessee. It's very powerdy. It's actually blowing around out there... like sands through the hourglass or something.

Where's that global warming when you need it?

It snowed quite a decent amount here (in Johnson City, for those of you who don't know) as well. In fact, it snowed enough to get my out of classes for today. I L-O-V-E getting out classes. Jenny came in my room at 10 this morning and said, "No school!!!" I just rolled over and turned off my alarm clock. It was a nice feeling...like I was back in High School again. We only got out one day last year at ETSU. We have been let out two in the past week. That is decent.

AH!
I wrecked my car this morning going to school (MTSU). I think its ridiculous that when the roads are that bad, AND the roads, parking lots, and side walks on campus are covered with snow and ice, that they dont have school on a late schedule at least. Now i have to pay to get my damn car fixed. I also saw this chick about fall walking to class. I'm pissed. and very tired.
SOrry to be such a downer
Mark Spencer76 aka Nathan

I don't blame you in the least bit. Johnson City is right in there with the Appalachian Mountains, so we have a lot of students who live in the mountains. I think that is why they called us out (and the fact that the city sucks, and they don't salt the main roads..just the highways).

the people at mtsu are bastards. they were the only university to post their name on the school closings website only to have "open on time" beside their name.

That sucks, dude. Sorry to hear it.

The most cruel joke ever...sick wankers,all of them.

i'm freezing.....its 4 degrees outside, BRRRRRRRRRR..... i noticed while watching channel 5 that at 7am tomorrow morning it will be -1 degrees. iwantelvis told me that it's colder here in Tennessee than it is in Anchorage, Alaska......Bizarre!

my cousins school was canceled in indiana yesterday because the temp was -20.

Yeah the Midwest sucks. I'm in Chicago and when I left for class yesterday, the high was -4 degrees with a windchill that made it feel like -25. My roommate's hands got so chapped from the cold that they started bleeding.