< 1 inch of snow and schools are closed.

[sbj405]

:wtf:

[Auggie]

1. I'm sure the kids don't mind

[sbj405]

2. Yeah, but when school's close, parents have to stay home.

Sucks for those that are stuck working and trying to get stuff done.

[ikojo]

6. Also sucks for those who don't get paid for

taking time off every time a school closes. I don't know how parents do it. I wsa the youngest girl so there were older siblings around when we didn't have school. It's not like they actively watched me and my younger brother but at least my mom wasn't breaking the law by not being there when school was cancelled..

[Robeson]

3. In Maryland? Hell, I thought Nashville was bad....

...:shrug:

[deepthought42]

18. Oh yes, we here in MD love to overreact...

One time when I was in high school, there was the threat of a "blizzard", so they closed schools for the day. And all it did was rain.

Did I get out of work today? Nooooooooooo. HMPH. At least with schools closed traffic was light, and the roads were fine.

[RebelOne]

4. Just the hint of snow and everything shuts down

here in the Atlanta area. And the shelves are cleaned out of bread and milk.

[ikojo]

5. Do you live in Missouri?

They close schools here for two inches of snow.

[LostInAnomie]

7. Yesterday , some school around here had a two hour delay...

... because the temp. was expected to be in the teens. No snow, no ice, just cold temp. That's pretty lame.

[Burma Jones]

8. We're snow wimps here........

[matcom]

9. I grew up in Maryland

the kids will be out for a week :D

[deepthought42]

19. Nah, they'll be back in school tomorrow...

maybe a late opening, lucky bastards...lol

When I was in 6th grade, we got a foot of snow. THEN we got a week off. I just think it's sad when they give kids the day off and all it does is rain...lmao.

Gotta love MD...especially AA county... :eyes:

[NC_Nurse]

10. Welcome to the South.

We had an inch last week. Same thing. Schools closed. I stayed home from work because I knew even though I could get there, they wouldn't need me.
We had 2 patients out of 8-10 show up.

I lost some money, but it was a nice break. Of course, my kids are grown. :-)

[Art_from_Ark]

32. When I was in 2nd grade in Arkansas, we had 4 inches of snow one day

and they didn't cancel school. But the only kids who made it were the ones from the immediate neighborhood-- there were 7 of us who made it to my class, out of 25. We played games all day. Then a few years later, there was an inch or two of snow, and the roads in town were passable, but the roads east of town, where the hills began, were worse, and a bus had an accident. So after that, they started canceling school if there was even just a threat of snow.

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. My children had Mon and Tues off because of cold weather. No snow.

It was tragically cold (-5 to an 8 degree high) but I've never seen that in my life. It's still just as cold today, but they all went back.

[RubyDuby in GA]

17. They did that once when I was a child many moons ago

It's probably because they can't properly heat the schools. That was why they did it here. Kinda funny though. We lived a few blocks away from the school (in Georgia) and my mom just bundles me up and sends me on my merry way to walk there just like every other day. A very kindly janitor at the school drove me home, saying I was the only one who turned up! We had only been in GA a couple of years - we moved from Missouri where it actually does get cold :)

[GenDem]

22. We had Monday off for the same reason.

Today and yesterday are just as bad, but they didn't cancel school. In fact, I think the wind is blowing harder today.

[seemunkee]

12. Yeah, today was a stupid one

My street was sanded this AM which means the main and secondary roads were already clear by 6:00.

[MissMillie]

13. maybe it's a temperature issue

:shrug:

a burst pipe at the school? Problems with the buses not starting?

[seemunkee]

21. No, just MD snow paranoia

The schools catch crap either way. If they close and it turns out the snow stops they look bad, but if they don't close and a single school bus has problems the parents yell.

[Midlodemocrat]

14. I would KILL for a snow day.

Not getting up at 5:30 would be heavenly.

[deepthought42]

20. It would be...I am very bitter today...

my sister gets out of school, and I'm stuck at work again. It's not like I ever need a day off.... :banghead:

[One_Life_To_Give]

15. Lawsuits

At least in my area the Board of Ed is paranoid about being sued. They figure if it's the least bit slippery out that in the event of an accident. They will be sued by the parents for not closing school. And to think my cousin in Maine thought it was normal for the school bus to have chains on it.

[Bunny]

16. I heard this yesterday, and I have to say I never knew it before: some of the bus

companies use a gel-type fuel, which freezes at the extreme cold temps we've been having (as low as -7). So, even though there's no real snow, they have to close schools because the buses won't start. And if you somehow managed to get them started, there is no guarantee that the fuel line won't freeze up while the buses are en route, and cause them to stall out in the middle of the road, suddenly and without warning. Our district is geographically very big and very rural. Having a bus stalled out on some back road with -7 temp could become a problem for the driver and the kids very quickly. So, I guess it's all for the best.

Although, my boss and I were laughing yesterday because when we were kids they NEVER called snow days - those schools were open and those buses ran no matter what! Kids today are such weenies! ;)

[Midlodemocrat]

29. When I first moved to VA, I was absolutely shocked that the

school buses didn't have chains on them. That was standard issue in CT.

Then I found out that the macadam used to seal the roads isn't nearly as thick, so the chains would destroy the roads in no time.

In 1995, we had a blizzard here that shut down the schools for three weeks. Because of the buses. I didn't care. I only had one in kindergarten and I was pregnant, so it was easier for me, actually.

[GenDem]

23. 7' of snow has fallen in parts of Oswego.

Now this is some serious snowfall. My son was going to school there two years ago and he said that the snow depths were unfathomable.

Lake Effect Lowers Boom on Oswego
by R News Staff
Published Feb 06, 2007

While snow has only been an occasional nuisance during Rochester’s bitter cold streak, parts of central New York have been buried.

Up to seven feet of lake effect snow covered parts of Oswego.

That is not a record. Parts of Oswego County measured twelve feet of snow just two years ago.

As of late Tuesday, the snow was beginning to taper off on Lake Ontario's eastern end.

rsg

[nykiera]

28. we are supposed to get another 12-30" tonight.

Short Term Forecast
Today
Partly Cloudy
This Evening: Now – MidnightPartly cloudy skies for much of Central New York. Lake effect snow continuing across northern Oswego/southern Jefferson counties. An additional 6-12”+ of accumulation. Temps dipping into the low teens. Wind chills below zero. Wind: W 12-25 mph.
Tomorrow
Mostly Cloudy with Flurries
Overnight: Midnight – 7 AM Partly cloudy skies, chance of a few flurries across Central New York. Very intense squalls across northern Oswego County, additional accumulations of 8-18”. Low near 10. Wind: WSW 10-20 mph.


http://www.9wsyr.com/weather/


And we only had a 2 hour delay Weds. morning.

[GenDem]

30. That is big time snow -- measured in feet not inches

Take care!:wow:

[mvd]

24. Here in SE PA it takes at least 2-3 inches

And that has to be well-timed. Pretty much 4+ here to close schools if it stops well before the start of school.

[sarge43]

25. Where is this?

Can't be any place north of the Mason-Dixon.

[Piltdown13]

26. A few inches shut down the university I teach at today

Having lived in Indiana and Boston before (where we had maybe a total of 4 snow days over something like 14 years total), it seems a bit weird, though I suspect it's because most of the faculty and staff don't live right in town...plowing is a bit slow even here in town, so I can just imagine how it must be in the outlying areas.

:-)

[Zookeeper]

27. Minnesota: Land of stoic and stubborn Germans and...

Scandahoovians.

For my kids to have a snowday would mean we had two feet of snow, or a major ice storm, or *maybe* -30 below temps. My youngest son was out at the bus stop Monday morning when it was -17 with a -35 windchill.

About ten years ago, the then-Governor called a snowday because the windchill was -40 or so and he was concerned about kids waiting at bus stops. People, mostly parents, raised hell about it! :crazy:

[struggle4progress]

31. How close to DC is ya? Cuz if I wuz near DC, I woudna traipse out on an 1/8" snowfall

Them folk they is some crazy mofo drivers down there