January 02, 2009

Snow puts freeze on Shrimp Ring

The shrimp are on ice, but so is Sunday's Shrimp Ring Bowl.

The stubborn winter weather has forced the postponement of the annual celebration of the new year, and the traditional beginning of the second half of the Sunday Morning Road Hockey season, by at least a week. The road hockey courts are still unplayable, buried under more than a foot of snow, ice and frozen slush, the aftermath of three storms in less than a week during the Christmas break.

More snow is forecast for Saturday, but then a warming trend will hopefully bring a sustained stretch of melting rains.

"I've never seen the courts in worse shape," said founding father, Living Legend, after a visit on Friday afternoon. "Even the road to the courts is still a snow-covered and icy mess. There's no place to park."

With the Shrimp Ring Bowl on ice, the shrimp will stay frozen until the courts thaw out.

Posted by jaysuburb at January 2, 2009 04:59 PM
Comments

Not sure yet. There's still a lot of heavy, saturated, semi-frozen snow on the court, and of course it's been trampled and compacted by a week's worth of kids' recesses. Shoveling this stuff would be a chore-and-a-half, but I'll make a more detailed assessment on Saturday. And parking on the street by the courts is still a bit of an issue.

Posted by: Living Legend at January 9, 2009 03:27 PM

So, is it a go for this sunday?

Posted by: V at January 9, 2009 12:27 PM

is that kid's old car in the snow-filled court picture??

Posted by: smith at January 9, 2009 12:18 PM

I'll go by on Saturday and check it out, then post here.

Posted by: Living Legend at January 8, 2009 07:56 PM

Hey boys,

Anyone been by the rink this week? How's it looking for Sunday?

Posted by: Gump at January 8, 2009 01:09 PM

Happy New Year roadsters. Too bad about the shrimp ring bowl but there's not much we can do about it. At least all of this shoveling snow and unclogging ice-jammed storm sewers should be good conditioning for battling in the corners for the evil orange plastic ball ...


Posted by: wendel at January 3, 2009 02:43 PM

doh?????

Posted by: alexander mogilny at January 2, 2009 08:04 PM