Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 11, 2009

Where are all the snowmen?

Drystyha says: Lived in North Carolina for a few years. Once had an inch of snow, enough to cover the roads. At that time the city had no plowing equipment and weren’t prepared for it. EVERYTHING stopped, including school! But I was running around in my liitle MG because I was used to it!   Which one did you have? I had a ‘56 MGA. Very fun little car.

Wow, the Great Wall of Calvin

At least now the family car is safe from the Mongolian hordes…

Will the wall stop the hordes of snow-goons that are soon to appear?

Dad… relax….. Having a wall around your house is a perfectly good reason not to go to work… you should be thanking “that kid”.

I’m crossing my fingers for snowmen!

hahahahhahahhhhahaaaaaaa!!! I did THE VERY same thing, when I was a kid! I needed a wall for a grudvanje(snowball fight) with my younger sister. Dad had to use hammer to destroy the wall, and I’m REALLY glad I wasn’t there in the morning, when he found out that he doesn’t have enough time to clean the path, and that he is forced to go to job on foot at WAY below zero Celsius :D

“We’ll pour water on it so it freezes overnight” - That kid should come work with me!

isto to uradih :)

Edit:Ooops! Mistake! But for some reson I can’t delete my comment :(

Yes, wndrwrthg: snow-goons can’t climb over ice walls, or metabolise solid ice (though they CAN metabolise powdery snow easily).

They say you show signs in youth of your future profession… so Calvin will be an engineer… or a mason! …if he ever makes it past 6.

Whoa! Hobbs has a scarf on in the 3rd frame. Whats the point of tiger fur?

Hobbes is a fashionable tiger, hence the scarf…

margueritemPro says:

Where are all the snowmen? they’re coming, Marg. I can sense them out there.

Calvin mentions: “All that fur must be purely ornamental”

Something tells me the wall won’t be there for long…. Sorry Calvin!!

Start walking dad, maybe you can catch the next bus.

I have the same problem and I have no kids. Whenever the county comes to plow our streets they completely block my driveway. Our snow is very wet here so when I go to shovel my way out it’s like shoveling set concrete.

Calvin, start packing…Theres a train coming.

He he he he he he he he he he ;)

I think some of our snow drifts (and plowed banks) will still be around on the 4th of July. Say, I wonder if a snowball fight works to celebrate national independence? (Does anyone in Canada do that?)

cleokaya says:

I have the same problem and I have no kids. Whenever the county comes to plow our streets they completely block my driveway. Our snow is very wet here so when I go to shovel my way out it’s like shoveling set concrete.

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That’s right and it’s so frustrating! Sometimes we can’t even get in the driveway because of that, we have to park across the street and then shovel it out before we can enter our driveway.

I recall taking sort of a “running jump” in my car and making it most of the time. Once I did end up having to shovel the car out of the pile of snow I landed in instead.

Yea! the snow goons may be here soon!

Silverpearl Maybe the snow goons have a shovel!

Ahhh! That sinking feeling when your car hits an invisible snowdrift and stops dead. No shovel in the trunk either!!

I’m sure Calvin would gladly remedy the problem if dad would spring for a flamethrower.

Send in the Snow Goons!! LOL!

hogar.strashni-are you Serbian?

plus4 says:

“Now, see, Dad, if you’d just bought the the 4WD SUV, you could get over that!”

‘Round here, the only difference with 4WD is that you get stuck in a bigger snowdrift!

Love this one! Dad has to go to work and Calvin blocked the driveway! Priceless! Of course, if that were me, I would call into work and say I was snowed in and couldn’t get to work today!

I hear that when they haul away snow from parking lots they take it to a Polish landfill.

Best car in the snow was the old VW beetles with the engines in the back! You could go anywhere in the snow!

Best car in the snow was the old VW beetles with the engines in the back! You could go anywhere in the snow!

hogar.strashni-are you Serbian?

Red, please don’t bomb Hogar, he’s a good guy ;=)

Не волнуйтесь Дом, я лучше обучены военной тактики, чем красный. Я буду защищать вас

Gweedo, a ‘75 Vega would need a running start to get DOWNhill….LOL.

Calvin is rather mischievous, I wonder if he knows that it will interfere with his dad? Anyway I have always enjoyed Calvins epic snow building adventures. From the most outrageous and wonderful snowmen to impregnable forts of snow and ice you can count on Calvin to make you smile.

@Calvinator it’s probably because tigers grow in India, so Hobs still didn’t get used to side effect of wintertime glittering joy :)

@1RF you’re right, I’m from Beograd(Belgrade),SRB. By the way, “hogar.strashni” means “Hagar the Horrible” which is my favourite comic strip :) Спасибо @JohnD17! Мне показалось что славянское сообщество здесь уже многочисленныe? :)

hagar.strashni, not all tigers are Indian (though the majority of extant wild tigers are) or even tropical; you’ve forgotten about Siberian (aka Manchurian) tigers.

bmonk says:

He he he he he he he he he he ;)

I think some of our snow drifts (and plowed banks) will still be around on the 4th of July. Say, I wonder if a snowball fight works to celebrate national independence? (Does anyone in Canada do that?)

No snowball fights where I am but to celebrate July 1 we sometimes hold a midnight golf tournament. That’s right, we are far enough north that it is light enough.

Drystyha says:

“Best car in the snow was the old VW beetles with the engines in the back! You could go anywhere in the snow!”

The Corvair was dyn-o-mite in the snow too. No thanks to Ralph Nader….

In la we have no snow whatsoever. During winter its nice to read these strips.

Calvin is the best creator of snow forts ever.

cute. love the looks on calvin’s face.

its a snow speed bump

Tee hee! funny now she won’t get out till July!

Focusing on the task at hand - losing the big picture

i wonder if you can drive on like a speed bump?

Now daddy will go to work at july