They Closed Our Schools For This
By DW Davis
@DWDavis (25807)
Pikeville, North Carolina
February 13, 2016 9:08am CST
{Sing the title of this post to the tune of Deana Carter's "I Shaved My Legs For This."}
I know our school district erred on the side of caution in closing the schools yesterday because the threat of snowy and icy weather was imminent. Indeed, about noon yesterday it did begin to snow. It snowed lightly but steadily for about 35 minutes. A couple hours later it snowed again, that time for about 30 minutes.
The photo accompanying this post is of the total accumulation of snow on the top of the rail on my back porch. As you can see, it wasn't much.
Hindsight is always 20/20. In hindsight we probably should have gone to school yesterday. Yet, I do not fault the powers that be for canceling. Better safe than sorry is a motto I strongly adhere to when it comes to our students.
Still, it did put me in mind of a song.
https://youtu.be/TzWOa8loCDI
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
13 Feb 16
My husband lived down south for a while. He tells me stories on how they closed of highways for a little flurry. In New England we venture out in blizzard conditions. My hubby is a better driver in the crappy snow than I. He is the one to do the driving when we have to go out for any reason.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
14 Feb 16
@DWDavis icy roads are treacherous. Whenever we get icy conditions I call my clients and cancel the visit, then call work to let them know I am staying home where I am safe.
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@DWDavis (25807)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
14 Feb 16
@ElusiveButterfly We may be doing that tomorrow. The forecast for the morning is looking very ugly. Snow and freezing rain until noon.
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@DWDavis (25807)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
14 Feb 16
After college, I worked in MA and lived in CT for a while and remember some harrowing drives to work and home in the winter. One morning, when we saw the town snow plow slide off the road on a hill and crash into the woods, after making sure the driver was okay and he had someone coming to pick him up, my wife and I made our way home and called in to say we'd be a little late and the truck that was salting and sanding had just crashed and we couldn't get up the hill to reach the highway.
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@DWDavis (25807)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
14 Feb 16
Looking today at the forecast for tomorrow morning, unless it changes drastically during the day, this may turn into a four day weekend for the students. Tomorrow was originally a holiday but was going to be our makeup day for the first day we lost due to snow back in January.
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@msiduri (5687)
• United States
13 Feb 16
Oh, god that's funny. Even for the south, that's funny. In Wisconsin where I grew up, that would hardly be considered enough to get boots on to check the mailbox.
I remember one year as a kids, long ago and far away, trick-or-treating in snow boots.
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@thash1979 (33)
• Akron, Indiana
13 Feb 16
This is just too funny to me. I live in Indiana, in the country, where if it snow, no plows come for days!! There has been times we have had more than a foot of snow, and school is still in session! I can not even imagine being somewhere that only gets a dusting and they cancel school!
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@whiteream (8567)
• United States
14 Feb 16
beeter safe than sorry, they school close around here sometimes for nothing, it all depends on when they think might happen. The sad thing is once all the snow days are used they go in weather that they shouldn't ice and snow
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
13 Feb 16
Does not that missed day of school have to be made up at a later date? It just isn't a freebie for all? I know here in LA, kids must attend x amount of dates and a closure has to be made up.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
13 Feb 16
All school districts have to go to school a certain number of days. They build it snow days - in the south too.
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@msiduri (5687)
• United States
13 Feb 16
@JohnRoberts We used to have a day or two extra built in. If we didn't use them, we had an extra day off around Memorial Day.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
22 Feb 16
I looks l ike school would have been fe b ut it good to err on the side of caution for the children
@allknowing (130292)
• India
14 Feb 16
Forecasting has really gone haywire. There's a joke about the guy who predicted bad weather but he was the only one who did not carry an umbrella (lol)
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
13 Feb 16
If there is one little hill in your area they will close school..we have lots of back winding and twisting roads and they close school if it snows 500 miles away - and i think it's because of the bus drivers.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
14 Feb 16
Considering we're Yankee transplants living in the south we get a kick out of the closings. There have been days when they closed the schools two days before the bad weather was anywhere near here and then we got nothing. They do seem to go to an extreme. The locals don't know how to drive when the sun is out either so go figure.
@Morleyhunt (21745)
• Canada
13 Feb 16
Our schools should have been closed. Getting the students home safely in white out conditions can't have been fun for the bus drivers.
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@KristenH (33363)
• Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
14 Feb 16
Well, at least it made the kids happy to have no school. It could be dangerous to drive on the icy roads.
