Is this pure crazy

We are doing that today!! All schools are closed around here, and we have 1/4" of snow. It will get worse, and is to be followed by frozen rain and drizzle. I do however remember a few years back that they closed all the schools because it was snowing in Tennessee, which is a two hour drive from here. We ended up with a dusting. LOL! The Commonwealth is a funny place for weather .... and decisions! LOL!

Don
 
Hey Moe, I think it's the same most places the mere mention of snow and folks go running looking to shut down and grab a "Snow Day", I don't recall it being like that when I was a kid, but hey we had to walk 10 miles to school in all weather - uphill both ways...lol

I think all the School Boards are just hyper worried about accidents especially early in the season, you know before the real nut cases have wrecked their cars and are off the road for a bit, and I guess when it comes to safety of kids I would go on the side of caution as well. Now the Banks and Government offices, that is a different story they can slack off at their desk or at home...lol

The other thing that really bugs me about this type of early call is, regardless when I am not travelling I work from a home office, so guess what I don't get snow days, I still have to work...
 
I remember growing up in New York, the busses had snowchains and we went with a foot of snow plus on the ground. I do remember the bus sliding here and there, but we survived. NEVER an accident on the busses I was on. Now, if it is snowing IN THE NEXT STATE, schools closed. Hell, no one would ever see a school in New England or out West if that rule was the norm! LOL!

Don
 
Bushpounder said:
I remember growing up in New York, the busses had snowchains and we went with a foot of snow plus on the ground. I do remember the bus sliding here and there, but we survived. NEVER an accident on the busses I was on. Now, if it is snowing IN THE NEXT STATE, schools closed. Hell, no one would ever see a school in New England or out West if that rule was the norm! LOL!

Don
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I hear you Don.... The schools get closed here in Vermont when there's over about 4-5 inches on the ground by 5 am. If the forecast is for the snow to taper off quickly, they may do a 1 or 2 hour delay. Giving the road crews a chance to catch up. The biggest problems around here for a lot of the school districts are the back/dirt roads. They ice up early in the year and remain so all winter. Only lots of sand keeps them drivable.

Once you get 4-5 inches of fresh on top of that, they get pretty slick.

My girlfriend used to drive a school bus in a nearby city. All pavement but lots of steep hills. She slid her bus (loaded) into a parked van due to glare ice from a bout of freezing rain. No real damage but they couldn't move the buss until the road crew got there with salt.

The district she worked for used to NEVER close unless it was a blizzard. Every other district would be closed but the city would not. Until six years ago, that is.

Bad ice storm, all the schools closed except for where Rose worked. Cars off all over the place. Was my day off and I ended up on three, car accident calls with the ambulance anyway. All close to the house so I first responded to the scene. Anyway, the order comes down from the state, Close the School. It was the only school open in the entire northern half of the state. So since it's an early close, the kids are all on different buses than usual. In the confusion at a stop, a kindigardener slips on the ice and falls under the bus. He isn't seen by anyone since the driver lost track of him and the kid walked off in a direction different from the other kids. The driver pulls out and you can guess what happened.

Now, if there are more than three flakes in the air, the city closes. Shows 20/20 hind sight, doesn't it?
 
Tell ya what Moe, I'd rather them do that than to have to take the boys to school in the morning and have to go back in bad weather two hours later and retrieve them.

Caz
 
Back when I was in school, there had to be at least one inch of snow on the roads before they closed. Now, the mere mention of the word "snow" and they start closing.
 
My wife is a secretary at the school here, and if the superintendant can get to the school (he lives three blocks away) then they have school. Needless to say there have been a few days when he really shouldn't have made it in....makes a lot of the parents around here angry when they risk life and limb in really bad weather to get the kids to school, then have to go back in a couple of hours and pick them back up when the super decides it really is too nasty to have school...
 
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