Snowdays gone and a world before technology

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One of the best parts about winter as a kid are snow days. Whenever we saw snow falling we'd tune into the news the next morning to see if school was delayed or cancelled. I remember eagerly watching the bottom of the screen to see if my school would be listed and if there would be a delay or closing and nothing made your day as a kid quite like seeing it was closed so you could spend the rest of the day playing outside in the snow. As an adult, I hate winter because I no longer like the cold or playing in the snow. Now with most school being remote a lot of schools aren't doing delays or cancelations and some that are still having in person classes have chosen to do the days that the weather is too bad to go to school remotely so the poor kids still have school. I am amused but also feel bad for them because that was one of the best parts of childhood. Seeing the word "closed" next to your school and screaming in joy and getting in your snowsuit and running outside to play. I remember one year we had just had two weeks off for Christmas break we went back for one day and then had a really bad snowstorm and were off school for another week. That storm was so bad because not only did we have a lot of snow but we also had a lot of ice. I remember our yard was frozen over. It was snow then ice with a snow layer over the ice so you couldn't even see the ice and would walk out and fall immediately upon stepping on the ground. I remember my brother and I using sleds to get around the yard because it really wasn't safe to walk on it. It took them forever to get the roads clear enough for buses because it was cold enough at night that things would refreeze and the wind would blow the snow around plus the snowstorm lasted a couple of days and after that would just snow off and on. I remember building a huge snow fort with some of the snow that came. Certain parts of the yard were more frozen than other parts of it. You could find all of the neighborhood kids along the train tracks because that was the best area for sledding but we were smart enough to get out of the way when we heard a train. The 90s was a different time in that our parents really didn't watch us much and somehow the majority of us came home safely. I do feel bad for kids today because not only are they dealing with a pandemic they also have things like snow days ruined for them and even before the pandemic they didn't get the freedom we had as kids. Things are just different now than they were when I was a kid. My generation was probably the last generation to really know what life was like before technology completely took over and who got to enjoy the world without being hooked to a cell phone or the internet. We were also one of the first generations to get to use the technology as we were introduced to most of it when it was still in its infancy. It's interesting to have been apart of two very different worlds. That said I really do wish a lot of things could be like the way things were when I was a kid for today's generation.