It’s APRIL!!! Why is it snowing??? Why why why whywhywhy whywhywhywhywhywhywhy??? (pounds her little fists on the floor in frustration.) It was seventy in Detroit on Wednesday! SEVENTY! You wanna know what temperature it was here? FORTY! Why? Because Michigan sucks and I hate it but I’m too damn poor to move!
Also, the Lions are a crappy team, and the Wings shouldn’t be losing to Columbus but they are anyway! AAAHHH!
Bite your tongue, cur, lest we banish you to Ohio. And if you live above the Zilwaukee Bridge, and complain about snow, well…
Hey, I take a certain amount of pride in living someplace where they don’t declare a state of emergency for six inches of snow. I wouldn’t care so much if we hadn’t missed out on the balmy weather that visited Detroit, and I’ll forgive Michigan when the Stanley Cup playoffs come, but… dammit! It’s APRIL!
I’m in mid-Michigan, and I feel your pain, look!ninjas. Early this week, my kids were playing outside, frolicking in the warm sunshine, rolling in the grass, and all was pretty close to right with the world.
Today, they’re commenting on how pretty the trees look all covered with ice.
This 70-degrees-one-day, mittens-and-hat-cold the next is driving me *batshit. * And I’m not exaggerating about the wild temperature fluctuations. It’s the most bizarre weather I’ve ever experienced, and I’ve lived in Michigan for all of my 35 years. This is insane!
:mad:
You could always be down here, where the pollen count is in the billions and every car is yellow.
Uh, I have a lacrosse game tomorrow. Outside. Wearing shorts. In Kalamazoo.
And you’re complaining? 
Heh. I, in San Francisco, California, have an employee from Detroit. The other day, the HVAC system went haywire and the temperature in the lab went down to about 40˚F. He complained that it was freezing, and came to my building to wait for repairs. I laughed; I said “You’re a disgrace to Michigan.” He hung his head and acknowledged that he had gone soft.
I, of course, am from California, and have no reason to be cold-adapted.
I for one would love to see you playing lacrosse in a loincloth, wmulax!
I’m half an hour south of the Mackinac Bridge. Where I’m at, it might as well be December again. Between six inches to a foot of snow tonight. Yech.
LOL, the people in DETROIT are complaining?!? You all live in the banana belt. We got REAL winter up here… all the way to June.
My poor furnace is crying out in loud, confused anguish.
And the stupid blower in my car died last weekend. I figured with the mild temperatures of spring I wouldn’t need to get it fixed until I started needing the A/C.
HA! Stupid weather.
Happy
Detroit area’s blanketed in freezing rain tonight, trees are falling over and snapping power lines and tens of thousands of people are without electricity… ya happy now? 
BTW, the Wings came back and tied it up with 11 seconds to go… still in the running for the WC title but not the President’s Trophy…ah well.
Hell, I live in Southern Ontario and we’re getting the snow too. 20 centimetres of fucking snow by the end of tomorrow. WTF?!!?
I was enjoying the shorts weather, but the snow had to come back. Dumbass weather, piss off. I want Spring!!!
Aaaaaaa-choo! Bardon Be! Yeth,dere’th been thomb tembprature changeth here too,but not enubf to sthop the horrid pollen! Throws away the multiple sodden paper towels she just used
1/2 hour SOUTH of the Mackinac Bridge is NOT Northern Michigan. You wannabe Yooper, you. I grew up in the Soo (Canadian Side). Soo, MI is northern. Get it right.
By the way, snow should be starting here (Ottawa) tonight… 25cms (10")… fuck off already winter!
your furnace is crying? bah.
Mine isn’t.
why?
'cause the fucking ice coated tree limbs fucking crashed onto the fucking power lines and there’s no fucking power in my home which means, no heat, no water
and Consumers auto report says “we expect your power to be restored by 8…PM… Sunday.”
Sunday?? night??? fuck!
(so I had to drive back into town to the office to sleep that’s why I’m able to post).
14 tree limbs in my driveway.
nope, 15 'cause another one crashed down as I was headed back to my car.
fuck Michigan.
(but it’s snowed as late in the season as May 8th. I remember calling a friend and bitching about it - that was something like 1975 )
Ahhhh…another 75 degree day, with few clouds and pleasant humidity.
Envy me now, because in a few months, I’ll be bitching cause the asphalt’s starting to melt.
Wrong. Northern Michigan starts at the line going through Manistee, Cadillac, West Branch, and Tawas City. (When Lake Michigan freezes, we’ll even admit Ludington.)
I won’t claim that the UP is not more North, but the top of the mitten is above the 45th parallel and it certainly counts as North.
In 1975, the last killing frost in the Detroit area was either May 22 or May 23. In 1976, we had three consecutive 80° days in early April so that the pre-emergent crabgrass killer was useless by the time the stores put it on sale.
The killer ice storms hit in March, 1974, knocking out power for much of Metro Detroit for up to a week in many cases. (My mom and I flshed the toilet by hauling water up from the lake she lives on. We cooked on a camp stove or ate out.)
Weather does tend to be variable in those parts, (actually, throughout most of the Great Lakes region).
I stopped being a Michidoper (in fact but not in spirit) a month ago, so I cannot ethically take part in this rant, but I do want to say that look!ninjas is one of my favorite user names ever, surpassed only by Pump-Action Gerbil.
That is all.