Megan Willems, a junior biology student, told the story of how her friend’s drive to Subway was a little more exciting than she had planned it to be.

While driving home from practice, Willems said her friend decided a tasty $5 footlong was in order. Despite the icy roads after a snowstorm, Willems’ friend proceeded to Subway.

Willems said when her friend approached the building, things immediately went wrong. The ice-slicked road would not allow her friend to stop the vehicle. This unfortunately caused the car to plow into the building, damaging the wall and windows.

“She turned a Subway into a drive-thru,” Willems said.

Luckily Willem said her friend was unharmed, but Willems’ friend is not the only one who has been affected by the winter weather. The abundance of snow Eau Claire has been getting has our Blugolds reminiscing on past blizzard experiences.

“This winter I went to Colorado with my dad. There was no snow there, but when we came back there was just a ton of snow!”

-Justin Miller, sophomore, actuarial science student.

“We had this huge snow storm, and there was like fifteen billion feet of snow. I’m kidding there was like a foot, but I decided I’d be active and go outside. So I went up to the top of a hill and somersaulted all the way down. It was like a quarter mile.”

-Riley Pikus, freshman, physics and engineering student

“When I was younger we were heading to my grandma’s house and it was snowing really bad. We were driving on this country road like three hours from my house, and we slid on black ice and rolled three times down a hill. We were all fine, but my brother thought it should’ve been a disney ride!”

-Kailin Schumacher, freshman, journalism student.

“One time I was in a snowstorm while I was driving and all of a sudden a deer ran out in front of me, and I slammed on my breaks. I started sliding but luckily the deer started running with the car. I almost died, but I didn’t.”

-Sydney Gerbig, junior, kinesiology student.

“Over winter break I drove my car into a ditch. I got chewed out by my mom.”

-Hunter Bockhop, freshman, finance student.

“I was driving to work, and it normally takes 25 minutes, and it took me three hours because every off ramp was blocked, and the ramp that was open I got stuck in and three semis crashed and blocked it off.”

-Erin Dorschner, freshman, elementary education major.

“One day I was driving home from school at night, and it was a blizzard out and I don’t have antilock brakes on my car so I came going 30 miles per hour into my neighborhood. The car spun out of control and there is a fire hydrant at the end, and I came within one foot of hitting it.”

-Caroline Saksefski, freshman, public history student.

“I was with my father and we were on our way to go get some movies, and he ended up pulling three people out of a ditch.”

-Justin Lorentz, freshman, undeclared.