No point in watching. Only time my school closed was the day it was so cold the Ohio river froze and you could walk to Kentucky.
10
That or the radio.
Still had to be up, dressed, brushed, breakfasted, and ready to go.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
15
Yep, up at the regular time and listen to the radio for school closings.
7
Mine never closed, just declared it an excused absence for students not there at 10 a.m.
4
Yea well, the flip side of that is we also planned events like three flies up at the local school yard 4 days in advance and everyone always showed up. On time. With out texting one another.
4
Went to high school in northern Minnesota. I am completely honest, I’ve walked to school in -30F temps. After I graduated I moved to Alaska to warm up.
9
I remember lying in bed and quickly scrolling between the radio news stations hoping to hear the first announcement and for it to be at least a 2 hour delay.
1
I also remember hearing the story of the guy in our county who’s job it was to get up at 4 in the morning and drive around key roadways to assess the road conditions and then report to the team which was tracking the weather predictions so they could make the decision regarding school delays or closures.
1
Ise gonna write this out but its easier like this…
Remember that year they closed the schools because perfectly healthy kids MIGHT be Typhoid Mary asymptomatic virus reservoirs even though the government knew that wasn’t true?
11
I was a paperboy in Central Illinois. I was up and at Moses Cafe by 5:30am to receive and fold my bundles of papers (4:30am on Sundays at the Post Office as the cafe was closed). Rain, snow, school or not. If I couldn’t ride my bicycle in the snow (which was often), I walked my route.
Rural kids got a break during heavy snows, smalltown kids had no excuse, we all lived within a mile or so from school.
3
‘Snow Days’? what’s that? why I had to walk 5 miles, uphill … each way … & go through a pasture where a bull chased me every day with no shoes
(me, not the bull)
didn’t experience many ‘snow days’. snow had to be at least a couple of feet deep and sticking to the roads.
(the good old days of ‘skeeching’ … all of us standing around the only 4-way stop in town, waiting for the occasional car w/ snow chains come by & we would run out behind them as they stopped & latch on to the bumpers [remember them?] & slide in the snow & ice on our boots &/or galoshes behind them … only problem was you either had to hoof it back or get lucky & skeetch back)
2
@ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
Just wondering…if it was uphill going to school, wouldn’t it be downhill returning home? Or vice versa?
My kid’s school declares no school for the following day if the forecast calls for ice or heavy snowfall during the morning commute. This happens about 5 times per year. About 4 of those times the forecast is wrong and there’s absolutely no snow or ice and the one time they get it ‘right’ it’s pretty tame and pointless to have called off class.
I’m also the type that wants to go driving when roads are snow covered. It’s fun to me, especially since hardly anyone is on the road. Perfect time to be out and about. Haven’t wrecked yet, so it’s a mystery to me why people can’t drive. Probably all the prescription pills and such.
2
If I could bottle the sheer joy & jubilance of learning that school was cancelled due to snow or ice, I’d be the richest man on the planet.
No drug could even compete with that feeling.
Oh to be a kid again…
Prologue:
“Sunnyvale Rest, a home for the aged – a dying place, and a common children’s game called kick-the-can, that will shortly become a refuge for a man who knows he will die in this world, if he doesn’t escape into – The Twilight Zone.”
Epilogue:
“Sunnyvale Rest, a dying place for ancient people, who have forgotten the fragile magic of youth. A dying place for those who have forgotten that childhood, maturity, and old age are curiously intertwined and not separate.
A dying place for those who have grown too stiff in their thinking – to visit – The Twilight Zone.”
-Rod Serling
2
Even my kids had to listen to the radio or turn on the local news channel.
We would watch Ch 6 because the cancellations were in alphabetical order.
Our schools don’t close often up here.
More so now that we’ve been invaded by soft out of staters who can’t drive in snow.
2
“Just wondering…if it was uphill going to school, wouldn’t it be downhill returning home? Or vice versa?”
yeah, right. disagree with dad. point out an error by Dad. you got a death wish?
1
It was a struggle but eventually they came out with the snowmobile boots with the felt liners you could remove and dry over the heat registers and the hooded snorkel parkas with the fake polyester fur.
The two greatest inventions of my life up to that point.
1
@joe6pack: Same here, but I was on Michigan’s upper peninsula. In elementary school, the snow banks were taller than I was. Also, it was uphill both ways in the dark. *snort*
No point in watching. Only time my school closed was the day it was so cold the Ohio river froze and you could walk to Kentucky.
That or the radio.
Still had to be up, dressed, brushed, breakfasted, and ready to go.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Yep, up at the regular time and listen to the radio for school closings.
Mine never closed, just declared it an excused absence for students not there at 10 a.m.
Yea well, the flip side of that is we also planned events like three flies up at the local school yard 4 days in advance and everyone always showed up. On time. With out texting one another.
Went to high school in northern Minnesota. I am completely honest, I’ve walked to school in -30F temps. After I graduated I moved to Alaska to warm up.
I remember lying in bed and quickly scrolling between the radio news stations hoping to hear the first announcement and for it to be at least a 2 hour delay.
I also remember hearing the story of the guy in our county who’s job it was to get up at 4 in the morning and drive around key roadways to assess the road conditions and then report to the team which was tracking the weather predictions so they could make the decision regarding school delays or closures.
Ise gonna write this out but its easier like this…
https://youtu.be/T1cqgAtMslE
Remember that year they closed the schools because perfectly healthy kids MIGHT be Typhoid Mary asymptomatic virus reservoirs even though the government knew that wasn’t true?
I was a paperboy in Central Illinois. I was up and at Moses Cafe by 5:30am to receive and fold my bundles of papers (4:30am on Sundays at the Post Office as the cafe was closed). Rain, snow, school or not. If I couldn’t ride my bicycle in the snow (which was often), I walked my route.
Rural kids got a break during heavy snows, smalltown kids had no excuse, we all lived within a mile or so from school.
‘Snow Days’? what’s that? why I had to walk 5 miles, uphill … each way … & go through a pasture where a bull chased me every day with no shoes
(me, not the bull)
didn’t experience many ‘snow days’. snow had to be at least a couple of feet deep and sticking to the roads.
(the good old days of ‘skeeching’ … all of us standing around the only 4-way stop in town, waiting for the occasional car w/ snow chains come by & we would run out behind them as they stopped & latch on to the bumpers [remember them?] & slide in the snow & ice on our boots &/or galoshes behind them … only problem was you either had to hoof it back or get lucky & skeetch back)
@ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
Just wondering…if it was uphill going to school, wouldn’t it be downhill returning home? Or vice versa?
My kid’s school declares no school for the following day if the forecast calls for ice or heavy snowfall during the morning commute. This happens about 5 times per year. About 4 of those times the forecast is wrong and there’s absolutely no snow or ice and the one time they get it ‘right’ it’s pretty tame and pointless to have called off class.
I’m also the type that wants to go driving when roads are snow covered. It’s fun to me, especially since hardly anyone is on the road. Perfect time to be out and about. Haven’t wrecked yet, so it’s a mystery to me why people can’t drive. Probably all the prescription pills and such.
If I could bottle the sheer joy & jubilance of learning that school was cancelled due to snow or ice, I’d be the richest man on the planet.
No drug could even compete with that feeling.
Oh to be a kid again…
Prologue:
“Sunnyvale Rest, a home for the aged – a dying place, and a common children’s game called kick-the-can, that will shortly become a refuge for a man who knows he will die in this world, if he doesn’t escape into – The Twilight Zone.”
Epilogue:
“Sunnyvale Rest, a dying place for ancient people, who have forgotten the fragile magic of youth. A dying place for those who have forgotten that childhood, maturity, and old age are curiously intertwined and not separate.
A dying place for those who have grown too stiff in their thinking – to visit – The Twilight Zone.”
-Rod Serling
Even my kids had to listen to the radio or turn on the local news channel.
We would watch Ch 6 because the cancellations were in alphabetical order.
Our schools don’t close often up here.
More so now that we’ve been invaded by soft out of staters who can’t drive in snow.
“Just wondering…if it was uphill going to school, wouldn’t it be downhill returning home? Or vice versa?”
yeah, right. disagree with dad. point out an error by Dad. you got a death wish?
It was a struggle but eventually they came out with the snowmobile boots with the felt liners you could remove and dry over the heat registers and the hooded snorkel parkas with the fake polyester fur.
The two greatest inventions of my life up to that point.
@joe6pack: Same here, but I was on Michigan’s upper peninsula. In elementary school, the snow banks were taller than I was. Also, it was uphill both ways in the dark. *snort*