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Was it enough for them to declare a Snow Day off? ;^)
Chris,
Yeah...I had the day off today, so I ran errands up the wazoo and am finishing up six loads of laundry. Things are back on track. 'Round these parts, most school districts usually budget 5-7 snow days into the school year when they build their schedule. If they go beyond those, the end date of the year progresses further into June. If they remain unused, we get out early.
We're expecting another 3-6 inches of snow Wednesday night into Thursday, and another storm over Saturday, dropping some more snow. (But nothing like this one!) They are also now projecting that this jet stream will remain "hyper-active" over the next two-to-three weeks, so more snow (and grinning plow operators happy to have work) are on the way.
It wasn't all bad, though. We had a gaggle of about twenty kids from our neighborhood out on a sledding trip yesterday, and I showed some of the kids how to use and fire a potato gun. We had those puppies being flung about 600-700 feet!
Even better, Boston Common was PACKED yesterday and today with city-dwellers taking their kids sledding, and there was a snowball fight in front of the Cambridge Public Library between students of Harvard and M.I.T. (Or as Harvard calls it, the "trade school.")
Tourists from England, Australia, and other places were thrilled and captivated by the way us New Englanders know how to handle and enjoy the snow, they rave that they want to repeat the experience by getting snowed in here again, they think it's a blast. Crazy, huh? :isadizzy: