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Here We Go Again - winter storms #2 and #3 Wed-Fri 1/10 thru 1/12

In Central Iowa, I saw Southeast Polk, DCG, Des Moines Public Schools, and Johnston are all closed tomorrow. I assume everyone will be by later tonight.
 
Don't worry about it, the weed freaks have already turned this thread into the official blizzard / middle aged THC hippies thread.
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60 mph wind gusts in IC tomorrow evening 😳 that’s life threatening stuff with the snow flying around

Could this be the rare time a college BB game gets postponed?
 
Cancel a basketball game because of a little snow and wind? GTFO.
I remember walking backwards against the wind, up Grand Avenue to the Old Fieldhouse from the Library parking Lot to watch a few Lute Olson lead teams. The smell of cigar and cherry tobacco filled pipes and popcorn made it worth the trip. Must have been 76-77 seasons, colder than hell...
 
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I never use the term blizzard after reading Empire Of The Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne. In the 19th century the great plains would get 2-3 feet of snow, cyclone winds, 20 to 30 foot drifts and white outs. snow blindness, death, etc.

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I remember walking backwards against the wind, up Grand Avenue to the Old Fieldhouse from the Library parking Lot to watch a few Lute Olson lead teams. The smell of cigar and cherry tobacco filled pipes and popcorn made it worth the trip. Must have 76-77 seasons, colder than hell...
I walked from the library to the fieldhouse to watch iowa vs # 1 michigan early 80’s.
Windchill had to be -30. Thought i was going to black out once. Fieldhouse was rocking that night.
After the game spent the night with a “friend” at slater just to avoid the walk back.
 
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I walked from the library to the fieldhouse to watch iowa vs # 1 michigan early 80’s.
Windchill had to be -30. Thought i was going to black out once. Fieldhouse was rocking that night.
After the game spent the night with a “friend” at slater just to avoid the walk back.
Did you tell yourself it was okay because you didn't make eye contact?
 
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S*** is getting real. I just got an email from Fin & Feather stating that they will be closed tomorrow. A store that sells rugged outdoors stuff is going to be closed due to the weather.
 
IC is doing good work on the roads, but, they just plowed me in for the 3rd time. A front end loader just scraped the street clean, and deposited a ridge a foot and a half tall in my driveway.
Some of the street lights are blanketed in snow. You just kind of have to guess as to if you have a green light.
They don’t plow you in on purpose dude. I admit I am a little defensive about this kind of thing. I don’t tell Torbee how to write. I don’t tell birch how to lawyer. I don’t tell greenway how to lawn care. I don’t tell McLovin how to 100 millie. The people out in this are busting their ass for the public. The more we work together the better things are. Have a good night sir.
 
It’ll be a really quiet morgue. Maybe like a morgue that is completely absent of dead bodies.

Well. Except for Fran’s idea of defense. That’s dead.
If it's as cold as a morgue I'm in.

Major glasscutters in the cheer squad and student section.
 
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They don’t plow you in on purpose dude. I admit I am a little defensive about this kind of thing. I don’t tell Torbee how to write. I don’t tell birch how to lawyer. I don’t tell greenway how to lawn care. I don’t tell McLovin how to 100 millie. The people out in this are busting their ass for the public. The more we work together the better things are. Have a good night sir.
Have a Snickers, or take a nap. You are too tense.
 
They don’t plow you in on purpose dude. I admit I am a little defensive about this kind of thing. I don’t tell Torbee how to write. I don’t tell birch how to lawyer. I don’t tell greenway how to lawn care. I don’t tell McLovin how to 100 millie. The people out in this are busting their ass for the public. The more we work together the better things are. Have a good night sir.
Don't kid yourself.

Some of the people plowing/moving snow put in certain places just to piss people off.
 
They don’t plow you in on purpose dude. I admit I am a little defensive about this kind of thing. I don’t tell Torbee how to write. I don’t tell birch how to lawyer. I don’t tell greenway how to lawn care. I don’t tell McLovin how to 100 millie. The people out in this are busting their ass for the public. The more we work together the better things are. Have a good night sir.
I'm thankfull that you guys plow me in dude. I like clearing it with a soup spoon and my bare hands to test my fortitude. I don't ever want to be soft like these other slap dicks
 
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Driving to DSM tomorrow from Marion.
Staying the night and still holding up hope for our 6a flight to st. Maarten via Miami…
If AA 3322…flights already cancelled brah. Sorry. (Oh that’s tomorrow’s nm). Still though no way the inbound overnighter aircraft is flying into a blizzard tomorrow evening to turn back out Saturday AM. I would 100% track that before making any decisions to leaving your home tomorrow. Especially on 80.
 
If AA 3322…flights already cancelled brah. Sorry. (Oh that’s tomorrow’s nm). Still though no way the inbound overnighter aircraft is flying into a blizzard tomorrow evening to turn back out Saturday AM. I would 100% track that before making any decisions to leaving your home tomorrow. Especially on 80.
Thanks for info, didn’t think to track incoming. Not planning on leaving until 10aish so I imagine the DSM website should already have an update.
 
I have the Caseys fuel truck coming at 8 in the morning to dump some fuel on my driveway. Then I'm going to find a neighbor that smokes. I'll light it, take a puff, and flick it. I'll become a Youtube sensation like all these teenagers.

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