First, yes, I know it’s Thursday.  But WTF Thursday just doesn’t have the punch that WTF Wednesday says.  What can I say?  I’m a big fan of alliteration.

Anyhow, Michigan has finally arrived at winter.  Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

Tuesday, it snowed, rained and snowed.

Anyone from Michigan will tell you this is a rotten mix, because you’re left with a layer of ice between two layers of snow. 

On the bright side, we only got 1 ½ inches of accumulation. 

Big whoop. 

Now, I know that if you get that much snow everything shuts down.  Like that one time we were in New Jersey and they got a little over an inch of snow and the State (or at least the part we were in) ground to a standstill.

But this is Michigan.  Right?  Right?

School closures.  Lots of school closures.

WTF? 

Yes, I know I’m a boomer and like Michigan generations before us, walked to school in neck-deep snow, uphill both ways … but please.  1 ½ inches of snow?

I remember having to go to school after an ice storm, on a bus whose route included a very narrow rural road with deep irrigation ditches on both sides and where it had to execute a 3 point turn at the end of said road. 

Now that’s living! 

Of course it doesn’t help that the weather forecasters get it wrong – 98% chance of WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.  No snow in sight – pay no attention to that weather map at the bottom of the page showing nothing but itty bitty snowflakes covering the entire State.  Big storm coming Friday, but no snow on Thursday – while I sit at my computer watching all that “no snow” falling and covering my freshly plowed driveway and walkways (thank you, Billy Goat Lawn Services – which I highly recommend to my local peeps). 

Well, I have groceries to buy, and I am definitely not afraid of a little snow.  Despite many many years in California, I am still a Michigan girl and I know the secret of driving in snow:

Slow the fuck down and keep your damn foot off the brake.

(Words to live by.)

Snow? What snow? Why would you expect snow?