Meme Monday: Snowpocalypse 2026 Memes

Before you ask "Hey, haven't you been putting out enough winter and snow related memes lately?" yes, I'm aware of that. And apparently Mother Nature has taken notice and said "Hold my beer!"

Beginning late in the afternoon on Saturday and until Sunday evening, we got about 9-9.5 in/ 22-24 cm  of snow dumped on us.*

I took this pic when I was out shoveling.

Close to the street, the snow totals were over a foot deep (30+ cm). And now that the snow is here, the really cold temperatures have moved in. The Wind Chill for tomorrow night is expected to be -22F/-30C, so this snow isn't going anywhere any time soon.

Hence, more memes, this time of the Snowpocalypse.

The snow storm hit more than just the Midwest.
It came up from Texas and hit a lot of
the South, too. This was from the
St. Louis Reddit page.

Yes, this was Kansas City's reaction to the impending
snow, but I survived my regular trip to the grocers on
Thursday night when most of the store was stripped
bare by people afraid that they'd run out of food.
From Twitter.

Of course, reading isn't a bad thing to do during
the snowstorm. From Instagram and ournerdiestthing.

And not everybody believes the world is ending.
From Reddit.

The storm has reached the Atlantic Coast
and New England, who are more used
to this sort of thing. From WAHUP.

As for me, I'll be fine. I've already shoveled the snow so that we can get out into the street and to the mailbox, so there's that. And whenever somebody complains about the cold, I like to bring up January 10, 1982, when the Cincinnati Bengals defeated the San Diego Chargers in the AFC Championship game commonly known as The Freezer Bowl, because the wind chills were -59F/-51C, making it the coldest NFL game on record. 

This was a screencap from a recording of the NBC
broadcast of the game. From Amazing Blaze Zine.

I remember that game quite well, because we all watched it that day. It was so cold in Cincinnati that day that our heat pump simply couldn't keep up with the cold, and we all wore heavy coats and wrapped ourselves in blankets inside the house while we watched the game on television. We actually had the curtains closed because the cold air seeping through into the house was so bad.

The Augusta Kentucky Historic District
put this collage of photos from news reports
of the game. From Facebook.

So yeah, it could be worse...

*This is just in my backyard; snow totals for the Cincinnati Metro area varied.