Driving will be rough tonight
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If any one is looking to unload tickets to downtown dwellers because of the storm...I'm your guy.
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Rebounding could be a problem as well. . . . . . . . . . . sorry
You just wake up or are you caddying in California for someone this weekend DB…….how are you pal…….
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I sold my tickets for $40 a peace because of the storm. I wish I could be there but it's hard driving from Madison in the snow
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This has nothing to do with the weather but, who was the scheduling genius who put the Louisville Saturday night game in Storrs and a Tuesday night against Temple at XL?
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Whimps! LOL. I remember driving in my old '89 Honda Civic Hatchback to several games at the HCC during the hellish winter of '95/'96 from Storrs or my hometown over winter break because so many people were not going to games. Took me over 2 hours one night to get back home and spun a few times on I-84. Ah, to be young and dumb again. Would not do that today.
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Won't be as bad as the Washington game last year, driving was fine unless you don't know how to drive.
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Yep....I still have a pic on my phone of my car after the Wash. game...6" of snow on it...the rive wasn't bad since not many bad winter drivers were on the road late on a Fri.
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It Hartford Restaurant Week. Bunch of places downtown are doing 3-course meals for 20.14. I read a column once where the writer said she tried to make it point to go out to eat in bad weather. Most places stay open and they are especially happy for your business. We're thinking Black Eyed Sally's for tonight.
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Going to try Salute tonight pre-game. I don't think the roads will be too bad.
No doubt there will be good seats to move down to. Looking forward to get smacked in the head by a Brimah rejection. In order to save the beer in my hand I'm going to allow it to hit me right in fkucing grill.
No doubt there will be good seats to move down to. Looking forward to get smacked in the head by a Brimah rejection. In order to save the beer in my hand I'm going to allow it to hit me right in fkucing grill.
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As I get older I get more cautious. It killed me to miss the Washington game last year. KILLED ME. This game is a disappointment too, but I don't want to end up in a ditch. Had enough strange stuff happen in snow driving to know that even an AWD SUV doesn't guarantee anything.
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I try to never let the weather interfere with UCONN basketball.
I'm driving from Meriden to Windsor to pick up my wife then onto the game.
My cousin and I once drove to the New Haven Coliseum in a snowstorm(zero visibility) to see UCONN/ BC ? in the early 80's.
Plow trucks were pulling off of 91 south and we went right by them in his VW rabbit.
There was a high school game prior to the UCONN game that featured Harold Pressley. I remember we also saw Dave Cowens of the Celtics that night.
Still can't believe that game wasn't called. By far the worst weather I ever went through to see a UCONN basketball game.
I'm driving from Meriden to Windsor to pick up my wife then onto the game.
My cousin and I once drove to the New Haven Coliseum in a snowstorm(zero visibility) to see UCONN/ BC ? in the early 80's.
Plow trucks were pulling off of 91 south and we went right by them in his VW rabbit.
There was a high school game prior to the UCONN game that featured Harold Pressley. I remember we also saw Dave Cowens of the Celtics that night.
Still can't believe that game wasn't called. By far the worst weather I ever went through to see a UCONN basketball game.
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Going to be a slow ride home to Madison for me. I commute up to the Hartford area for work every day so I am at least already up here for the drive to.
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There is also hotel availability still. I just checked Expedia and you can stay downtown from $100 to $140 for a decent room. Who hasn't shown up in the office with the same clothes on two days in a row? Better than throwing tickets in the garbage - unless they are the tics I am moving down to.
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Snow is funny stuff. One of my kids went to college near Chicago about 20 years ago. It was probably semester break, and he was due to drive his car home to South Windsor where we lived at the time, had a friend with him who lived near us and who went to the same university. A blizzard was due the day they were to start out, moving east from the midwest. We told him to wait a few days, but he was stubborn. They drove through the storm to somewhere in PA and decide to stay the night. The next day, still storming, they decided to come home anyway. My son drops his friend home, less than 2 miles from us, gets about a half mile away and skids off the road into a snow bank where he had to be towed out. Drives a 100o miles and can't make the last half mile.
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It was actually the same night, about 3-4 hours after the game ended. Really fortunate nobody was inside. I worked in Hartford in the Gold Building at the time and I remember we went to the top floor to look toward the Civic Center and it looked like a huge, wrecked erector set sticking up over the damage.
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