Christmas Snowmageddon - Winter Storm Elliot Approacheth

Looking at your Santa animation, I was thinking that you probably have a giant Norelco razor head in your barn (Now with Floating Heads!) and you’ll be sliding down on it come Christmas. Have fun and some hot cocoa!

Note: you need my user name to remember goofy old TV ads like this. 

well played!

What kind of special bread?  I like Rye. 
 

BTW- yea, you have to like the heat or you’ll hate Texas. I don’t mind being outside all day in 100 degree temps . Y’all gotta be a special bread. 

 was in Erie for a while, snow fall equals MI, but starts later and ends sooner.... lake effect fun stuff.... now i'm in central western PA...  Really like it, the culture is very similar to rural MI (they just pronounce their vowels differently)  we get a couple feet of snow a year, but its never really on the ground for more than a week or two before a warm enough spell melts it all.   

In retirement we plan to spend Feb, March, April somewhere south... I like 4 seasons, but winter can be limited to a couple months and I'll be fine.

True. I live in the Tampa area. Florida is like reverse Michigan. Hot as heck for 3/4 of the year and very nice for 1/4. 

had the same experience while stationed at Ft Hood....  that low 30s and rain would chill right to the bones... seemed worse than 0 with wind and snow in Northern MI.

My wife and I continue to maintain, after 13+ years in Duluth, that we'd take this over cold, rain, and slop. Any day. Winters here are *much* better than the chilly brown nothings a wide swath of the country gets.

Naming winter storms in general is silly.  These aren't hurricanes that will leave a massive path of destruction.

Unless it is spelled double L, double T, then very strong.  On the other hand, Thor might carry more weight 

Suits us, we're not travelling until Sunday. We've got plenty of our own. Gonna be an interesting drive across the UP.

Always liked how the locals in Petoskey rarely hit their brakes and just let off the gas in unison like synchronized swimming versus downstate panic. Everyone seemed to learn and adapt on snow and ice to be no big deal up there. If you went in the ditch up there you mostly were a novice teenager a drunk or a downstater/Fudgy.

Gambling odds have A2 in the 6-10 range with better money to go higher than lower. But who am I to question the wisdom of MLive?  As for me, hundreds of miles to the south I'll be a little bundled up over the weekend, but looks to rebound to upper 60's (fingers crossed lower 70's) by the end of the year. Then maybe a trek back to the mitten.

I feel like Southeast Michigan has had more white Christmases than that over the years.  I wonder if the data looks different if you look a little further away from the city of Detroit (and its heat island effect).

I don't know if I am glorifying the past with hazy memory, but I recall being a kid growing up in the 1970's and 1980's in the Detroit area and having a white Christmas just about every year.  Two to five feet of snowfall through the winter was typical.  Things started changing in the 1990's to the 40-ish degF temperatures and it was mostly rain and sleet instead of snow.

This is the groundhog day storm in 2011?  It hit other parts of the country pretty bad. My wife and I got stranded in our car, along with hundreds of others as it dumped inches on our city in super short order. We had probably one of our biggest fights ever. (She had to pee, and I didn't have a urinal with me)  She ended up storming off into the blizzard and finding a restaurant 10 minutes walking away. I think we tried to get out of downtown around 3PM that day, we lived about 5 miles south of downtown. We ended up walking into the house around 930PM that night. 

BDL/Bradley. It's just NE of Hartford. It's been ok in years past in the winter. Hopefully our luck holds.