<p>D2 went back out to go to the state hockey playoffs. MN hates to cancel anything due to snow! At least an adult was driving and in a big old 4 wheel drive truck. Looking forward to her getting back home.</p>
<p>When my D (now 23) was in kindergarten, a big snowstorm hit in the middle of the day. The buses were late with the high school kids, got stuck with the jr. high kids, and just gave up on the elementary kids. My H had to walk to school to get D. There were still kids and teachers there till 7 PM, with neighbors bringing in food. All the elementary parents had to just figure out how to get their own kids, and the road to the school became impassable with abandoned, stuck vehicles. (We don’t do well with snow in Seattle.)</p>
<p>Oh, bookiemom, I think I remember that storm and the mess that followed!</p>
<p>“From my point of view here in tropical southern Minnesota, Pequot Lakes is on the verge of being in the mythological land of “Up North”. No one knows where the borders of “Up North” are, it’s a state of mind. “Up North” it is always a good day to go fishing for muskies - summer or winter- and an even better day for snowmobiling or jet skiing, depending on when it is finally declared “ice out” (meaning gone from the lake). Even in July, the kids are doing polar bear swims, the loons are laughing, and the saunas are steaming, and Grandma is pulling the tater tot hotdish out of the oven.”</p>
<p>Reading that reminded me of “A Prayer for Owen Meany” where the narrator talks about his cousins’ house.</p>
<p>I am glad I live in moderate temperatures. With temperatures that cold, I think I’d never get up from bed in the mornings since the it would be so warm in bed and so freezing just a few inches from bed!</p>
<p>Hey, woami, we have “up north” in Michigan too! The mythical land of Up North in Michigan starts right about where your knuckles are if you hold up your hand like the mitten of Michigan.</p>
<p>Up North in Michigan they have nine months of winter and three months of poor sledding. And they don’t cancel school much, either. They plow all night there if needed, with some serious snow-shooting plows.</p>
<p>Our school district is parts of nine towns in three different counties. Here in Rochester it could be sunny in one area, and a whiteout in another due to lake effect and the way storms come in. Our district is known for staying open all the time - in fact there is a Facebook out there called “(School) will never close short of a nuclear attack”</p>
<p>On fact, after one storm the county I live in was under a state of emergency, the other two counties ( including the one the Superintendent lives in) were not. The Sheriff’s deputies were pulling over buses, asking the drivers why the heck they were on the road…“School’s Open” was the answer. Now we have delays now and then, but NEVER a full day closure</p>
<p>Looks like there is a classic “first week in March” noreaster a brewing…wonder how much NYC and NE are going to get…I am sure most schools in the southern states hit will be closed tomorrow…</p>
<p>I’m in So. Md. I fully expect to be out of school until at least Wed. 8-12"+ predicted</p>
<p>We thought we had done a good job of keeping our high school age kids away from the TV/radio and all these predictions of a foot of snow. Hoping that they would not hear about the impending storm in the northeast, so that they would continue to do homework.
We succeeded until their piano teacher walked in this morning and announced that their lessons wouldn’t be overly long since she was trying to fit everyone in before the big snowstorm! I never would have guessed that this 70+ year old woman would be the walking weather.com :rolleyes:</p>
<p>We are in NC. Our schools usually cancel at the first flake. We’ve already had two snow days this year for maybe an inch of snow each time. Now all the scheduled teacher workdays in the spring will be make-up snow days.<br>
A couple of inches is expected here overnight. I’m sure sch. will prob. be cancelled tomorrow. There goes Spring Break in April.</p>
<p>NYC almost never cancels school because there will be kids who don’t eat if they don’t go to school. It’s not a big deal in Manhattan, but in the outer boroughs it’s tough. Staten Island has very poor public transportation and some of the largest hills on the Eastern Seaboard, one of which my D’s school sits upon, so I’m fairly confident that if we get a foot of snow I won’t be sending them tomorrow. Baby is still pretty sick with bronchitis, so he could use an extra day anyway.</p>
<p>Here in the greater D.C. area, we cancel school if it even <em>looks</em> like Snow. Pres. Obama got a lot of flack (flakes?) for commenting on the schools closing for a little snow/ice when the kids in Chicago would still be having recess. Of course, we don’t have the budget for snow removal that Chicago has but he still has a point. We are now looking at 7+ inches for tonight and tomorrow. Children throughout the area are rejoicing…we’ve only had about 1 or two snow days this year…parents are groaning.</p>
<p>Don’t throw anything at me, but I have to pipe in and say that here in Southern California we broke all-time heat records yesterday. It was 85… okay, backing out of here slowly.</p>
<p>Looks to me like Connecticut schools will close tomorrow. I am at the shop doing my Monday morning orders – I order on Monday for the whole week – because I don’t know if I will get here tomorrow. They are saying it could be over a foot of snow. I hope it’s the last for the year!</p>
<p>Kids aren’t the only people rejoicing her in the DC-Balt. area. We teachers are kind of enjoying the prospects of a couple days off as well.</p>
<p>I live in the mountains and our schools never close, at least it seems like it.
But the weather here is very unpredictable. It can be a total blizzard at my house (benches) and hardly anything downtown.</p>
<p>Ok, where is the snow?! I have the fire going, watching “Storm of the Century” by Stephen King, and I am not seeing any flakes. I am in NJ.</p>
<p>We live half an hour north of Syracuse and if it snows in inches we are happy. If a foot or more is predicted we usually check to see if we have milk and bread and figure school may have an hour delay. 18 inches to two feet is probably when school will be closed and I’ve only worried about the buses a handful of times through four kids. God bless our road crews in Oswego county. We do chuckle at the areas that shut down for five or six inches but know they don’t have the equipment we do.</p>
<p>We’ve lived east of Syracuse for the past 20 years, and every winter I wonder how you Oswego county residents do it. I had to drive down 81 from Fulton just once during a big lake effect event, and I’ll never do it again, even if it means sleeping in the car in a McDonald’s parking lot. You folks are the real deal!</p>
<p>oldfort we’re in South Jersey and it’s snowing hard…a nor’easter is supposed to rev up overnight. Considering we’ ve had maybe 3 inches total so far this winter, everyone’s excited. Tomorrow will be first snow day of the season.</p>