i was 12 and remember about 2 weeks off school.
power was out for 7-10 days.
heat was no worries as we had plenty of wood (every fall was spent chopping/stacking wood).
always loved getting buried in snow (it can be fun... if you’re prepared)
This may sound like false bravado/bragging, yet my school might have been out longer than any other school in the nation.
If I recall we missed the last day before Christmas in ‘77 and didn’t go back until around March 1. See some people forget that winter was a whole series of storms with this 1 being the greatest. We had something like a 9 inch storm with ice in Dec., then several more later.
However I have to tell the whole story. Our school, was a consolidated new county school first opened the year before in 76-77. Its furnace went out around the blizzard and it was so new it kept breaking and they couldn’t get all the parts to fix it quickly. I would guess we would have missed about a month total otherwise. (We had terrible and persistent snow drifts for weeks)