Massive Blizzard Currently Hitting Metro Detroit

[Johnnny5]

I understand it snowed a lot last night. However, other than the main roads being slightly snowy and a bit slippery... what is with the regional freak out?


GP to Downtown in about 25 minutes on Jefferson [[maybe 10 minutes longer than usual) for an 8 am meeting that eventually had to be cancelled because people coming in from Novi and Macomb couldn't make it.

I don't get it. It snows here in winter. Sometimes it snows a lot. Why the regional freak out? I understand cancelling things like garbage pick up or non essential deliveries... but Courts? Federal and State offices? WTF? Yes, its going to take a little longer to get to work and yes you might have to get up early and shovel. GET UP EARLIER and get to f'ing work.

Sorry...more of a rant at some work colleagues that desire to live in exurban cul du sac subdivisions and every time it snows call in about how they just cant get in.

As mentioned earlier the severity of this storm must really depend on where in Metro Detroit you are located. I was out late last night and even the main roads out this way were barely passable unless you had 4 wheel drive. "Getting up a little earlier" would not have made any difference for those in cars or 2wd trucks. I just got a call from my mail carrier and they are not even delivering today to most areas in Milford Township. I work from my home and rely on my daily mail pickup and I can not remember this happening in the last 10 years. The company that plows my drive has been here 3 times in 24 hours and if it snows again I have no idea where they will push the snow!

Out this way I would venture to say this is one of the most [[If not the most) significant snow storms we have had since the storm of 1999. The biggest threat now will be the record low temps and high winds they are calling for tonight and tomorrow. Salt does not work at all when the temps get this low, and if one were to become stranded exposure to the elements would be a serious concern.