Snowmageddon 2022

Looks like a huge cold front is about to hit most of the country. It looks like a lot of people are going to get a white Christmas.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nichol...-christmas-across-much-of-us/?sh=4fa243f3d94d

Whoopdydoo.

Not here

1: A bunch of people are about to go "I'm not driving in this shit, I'm getting an Uber."

2: A bunch of Uber drivers are about to go "I'm not driving in this shit, it's not worth it."

3: ???

4: Profit

Also, I do mostly rideshare now because I got fed up with DoorDash's bullshit.

I’ve had Uber drivers who brave the snow.

Yep, and they get paid more, because some drivers nope the fuck out.

I usually nope out, but how good is the money? We talking July 2020, all-the-drivers-are-collecting-supplemental-unemployment, surging-all-the-time money?

In the cold already, it's wavering above and below zero all this week with occasional snow all this week I guess. The snow is lovely and, well, you saw the pictures in the Green Room thread, but the cold is a little beyond my comfort level and the dogs' too.

In my 20s we had a white Christmas party every December 23rd where we’d go to this really shitty bar called The Cambie and get shitfaced and do a bunch of blow

Nice.

Thoughts and prayers to Texas and the other red states, I hope the free market keeps you all from freezing to death.

Oh wow, a high of 61 here on Christmas Eve. Better turn on the heater.

Santa brought the cold freezing death to Texass and the red states I asked for.

Oh my, that means it really is gays who cause bad weather. Who knew.

Nah, more like "this is barely worth it, but I'm late on my car payment so whatever."

Commute on a bicycle. You'll be fine. I only flop over on the ice once in awhile.

6+ inches tomorrow through Saturday, fatal wind chills, blizzards possible

It’s good for you. Builds character.

I left Charlotte at 7pm and it was hailing and 38. I arrived in West palm at around 5AM and it was 70. I did not mind the cold, but the crushed ice falling from the sky was just as fucking annoying as I remember it to be. I have become converted to the florida idea that crushed ice belongs in a drink and not falling from the fucking sky.

Canada laughs at your American fear of snow.

I see a CountryBalls skit in the works

While 90% of your population huddle up against the US border for no reason at all apparently.

Weather Underground says 4-5" for Detroit, whereas WTForecast says 2", but, like, the shittiest 2" possible.

There's a dick joke in there somewhere. I'm certain of it, but I just don't see it.

Anyway, if Uber just sends me a bunch of 2 mile trips with pickups that are 8 miles away, I'm going to be pissed.

Oh, the dick joke is sadly obvious. And warranted.
Well, as warranted as a dick joke of such cold nature can be, frosting the discourse as it does.

Maybe I'll drive on Christmas. Because we're heathens, Christmas consists of me and my brother meeting up for Indian food on the 24th and then doing a Google chat with the rest of the family, and it seems like the 25th itself ought to be decent money.

I'm planning on working on Christmas as well. All of my family members, I either no longer speak to them or I'm not particularly close to them, so I've got nothing better to do. It's either work of sit around doing nothing, and the 26th or 27th are probably better options if I want to take a day off.

Supposed to hit here tomorrow. Going to be like close to 0 so its that light fluffy stuff thats going to blow around like a snowglobe for a few days.

I prefer my white fluffy evil in the form of bunnies and kittens.

Soma agrees!

Whelp, the shitty weather has begun. Freezing rain this morning has now turned into regular rain which turns into ice tonight then snow tomorrow.

So today I learned you can freeze the grease in your freewheel hub, causing the pawls to not engage the rear wheel, rendering the bicycle useless. It's cool. I was hoping to walk beside it in the snowdrifts for a couple of miles.