Yay! It's A Snow Day!

[emw]

My kids have actually had two snow days in the last week, which is quite unusual. And a little disruptive, given that we have to take time off of work.

Why, when I was a kid, we'd have to walk a mile and a half to school in a foot of snow, now they're canceling classes for a lousy 5 inches? Kids today...

 

[Don't panic]

...
Why, when I was a kid, we'd have to walk a mile and a half to school in a foot of snow..

in canvas sneakers and uphill both ways.

i remember it too

 

[emw]

in canvas sneakers and uphill both ways.

You had shoes?

 

[7031]

Damn you lol.

Here in England, the weather always sucks. It's cold, but it's never cold enough for snow, and in the summer, it's either freezing, or we have a heat wave.

 

[abijnk]

I win...

Well, I too was excited that today was a snow day, well ICE day really, because university campuses don't shut down too easy. That was until I got home and had to deal with this...

Our neighbors house is vacant right now (the lady is trying to sell it) so we are allowed to use the lean-to carport. Well, we won't do that again!!! The Dodge Durango help up rather well under pressure.

 

[7on]

I miss snow days Me and my 5 minute commute to work...

 

[iDAG]

Damn you lol.

Oh, why thank you kind sir!

 

[forafireescape]

It's been snowing here in Indiana for like two days...and still no snow day...stupid college campuses! Since we only NEED to walk, they don't cancel because of bad roads

 

[letswastetime]

I've never experienced a snow day, probably caused ive lived on the west coast my whole life but it was 75 here in arizona today!

 

[Nabooly]

We got off last Thursday cause it rained a lot, and the bridge on the way to school was underwater.

Today we had a 2 hour delay for the snow.

Weve already used up all our 5 days. So if we miss one more we gotta make it up, lol

Oh yeah and 2 of those days were fog cancellations

 

[techlover828]

I'm going to have a snow day tomorrow!

big storm coming in, good thing too because I haven't done any of my homework.

edit: Oh ya, this will be our 5th one! (we're going to be in school till july!)

 

[swmr]

Well we had school today, but all after school activities were canceled. That means that my senior night (varsity swim team) was postponed and my parents can't make it now. The snow didn't even start till about 5 o'clock.

On top of that it will be raining tonight. I live in a town where the north end (up on a hill) can be freezing and snowing while the south end is just raining. I am sure tomorrow I will have a full day of school and I will have to drive through a few inches in my 230hp sedan without snow tires. Should be fun and suicidal.

Just to give an example of the climate difference, this past Saturday at my house, it snowed twice totaling two inches, and it was just a drizzle down in town. Thats Hamden, CT for you. Does anybody else live in a town like this?

 

[Crawn2003]

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I just left Dayton, Ohio about a week ago with my wife and moved to Wine Country California (Santa Rosa). I was looking at the weather there yesterday and it was like 13F and snow/freezing rain/sleet! Then I stepped outside here and it was sunny and 68F with a nice breeze... I couldn't help but smile!



As for a story, about 10 years ago we had like 3 feet of snow with ice in 2 weeks. In that two weeks I had no school whatsoever. It was great!



~Crawn

 

[iDAG]

I hate that I didn't get a delay today. The capital city which is right next to mine, got the day off. My school district is a hard one to get a snow day out of.

 

[John Doe 57]

I had a snow day today. Only our 2nd of the 07-08 season. We got 3 inches of snow and half an inch of ice. The power didn't go out , even though many trees came down.


Our school is so strict with snow days. They can only issue 3 a year, or school will extended into summer vacation.

Last year, we used all 3 snow days. 2 of them in a row; when we got 30 inches in less than 24 hours! It was amazing.

 

[JML42691]

I wish we had a snow day, we had snow overnight, not enough to warrant a snow day though, but it rained cats and dogs all day, and then at 1:30 the fire alarms went off and we had to wait outside without coats/umbrellas for 30 minutes while they sorted the thing out. Once they let us back in they had to cancel classes for 20 minutes so kids could find dry clothes. I have never been so wet in my life. And it turned out to be a freshman who hit the alarm pull-station in the gym with a basketball. I am sure people are going to talk to him tomorrow, not. Why did my school have to connect all the buildings on campus, the gym is a good 500-750 feet away from the building that I was in when it went the alarm went off, I would not have been soaked..

 

[Coolnat2004]

I just got 2 snow days in a row, but I just found out that they have subsequently decided to extend our trimester 2 more school days. This means that I have to endure 2 more days of French class, which I now hate.