<p>snow days son, snow days, two days in a row maybe a third for a long christmas break, while snow days do not make buffalo better, defiantly helps when living in this miserable place ha</p>
<p>OK - for every day like this in Western New York that you ask “why the hell did I ever move here?”, you get a beautiful day in the late spring/summer/early fall where you say “boy, I am so lucky to live here”. Not very much consolation, but at least you get snow days…my district would not close for anything short of a nuclear attack. Buses have been forced off the roads by sheriff’s deputies when the county was in a state of emergency, but hey you have to get that state money for the day, right? Now we are a unique breed of people, as Tim Russert (rest his soul) always said…I’d rather be stuck with a bunch of Buffalonians during bad weather than people from most other cities any day of the week…</p>
<p>Son was so convinced yesterday that school would be canceled today that he didn’t even finish up the paper due today. Thankfully the school district called for snow day early last evening so we didn’t have to get up this morning to watch the news. We are leaving tomorrow for a vacation in Florida, so no school tomorrow either! He is thrilled with this extra long Christmas break. I hate the snow, but the kids love those snow days. Now if the snow would just continue to hold off for another 24 hours so we can get out here…</p>
<p>What’s awsome about Buffalo? How about the road crews! Yes, occasionally the amount of snow is overwhelming, but normally the roads are driveable under conditions that would paralyze other cities.</p>
<p>I remember last year when Watertown received more than 100 inches of snow in less than a week. The CNN reporter standing next to a drift as tall as a house was asked “what are the locals doing to survive all this snow” to which she replied “they are leading their lives normally, going to work, to school… it’s a lot of snow, but they know how to manage it around here.”</p>