Snow-begone!

It’s only November, and already Mequon and its inhabitants have been hard-hit with the polar vortex and the ensuing snow. Girls everywhere now have an excuse to pull out their Uggs and wear them with pride, being careful not to get them covered in snow.

According to the Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee has already tied what is hoped to be “the only bad-weather record that gets broken this winter” for 0.8 inches of snowfall on Nov. 16, set in 1895. The Journal remains optimistic for this upcoming winter, hoping that because winter started so early this year, maybe spring will come in April instead of May.

However, it’s been winter inside Homestead for a while now. Ever since 50 and 60 degree weather said adios! in late August, students and teachers alike have been piling on the sweaters, and even resorting to wearing jackets in the halls. Standing in front of the heaters during passing has now become a epic battle between the upper- and underclassmen for rights.

“It’s so cold!!!” McKell Lillestolen, senior, said. “I’ve had to go get blankets from Mr. Marton’s room, and there were a couple times [Mrs. Beaumier] had her windows open and it was freezing!!”

Students are so desperate to warm their freezing hands that they even find time to duck into the bathrooms before class, just to run their hands under a heavy blast of hot air from the powerful hand dryers so usefully situated in every bathroom, warming them all the way down to their toes. “In some places it’s cold, but in the Spanish wing it’s really hot,” Rachel Truttmann, freshman, said. “I just feel like the heating is really uneven!”

The onset of winter also clearly distinguishes between the people who deem themselves too “cool” to wear jackets in the building, and those who see the necessity of it. Even after summer has long deserted Wisconsin, there’s still a few people in the halls who make a statement by wearing boy tanks or shorts.

Well, if this is the winter of November, January will even more fun than watching the boys swim team roll around in the snow in red Speedos.

By the way…. What do you call a snowman with a 6-pack?

An abdominal snowman. (http://www.jokes4us.com/miscellaneousjokes/weatherjokes/snowjokes.html)