My god daughter, a foot surgeon, flew into MSP last night, about midnight.
She was returning from a week in Honduras, where she and her team spent their week fixing little kids. Deformed feet and ankles, kids with club feet, and worse.
They do it somewhere in the world, every year.
She wasn't supposed to work today, but, at 2AM, her pager went off and she was called to work at the County Medical center.
She spent the next 13 hours in surgery, fixing slip and fall broken and shattered ankles due to black ice conditions here, along with amputations of black, frostbitten toes.
Being in Kentucky, I don't expect you to understand killer, cold weather. I'm personally inviting you to visit us in Minnesota, experience deadly weather and then tell us to our faces that we are "weak".
Until then, Mr. Governor...
Screw you.
These are unnecessary risks in a world that's more mechanized & computerized every day.
My wife works in St. Paul. Her morning bus is usually full. Six people on it this morning. I decided to pick her up after work. No traffic during rush hour. Hardly any cars in downtown St Paul. Went to Fuudruckers in Edina. Maybe a dozen people there during evening rush time. No traffic on 494 that amounted to anything.
Tomorrow she will do it again while everyone stays at home since this is apparently the first time it got cold in Minnesota in the middle of the winter.
I used to work outside in this stuff. It sucks but when you live up here in the frozen lands you need to adapt.
My kids get days off a lot cheaper than I did in the 1990s. I will say that. I dont remember getting days off for wind chill or a dusting of snow. It would take 4 or 5 inches.
“Being in Kentucky, I don’t expect you to understand killer, cold weather.”
No, I dont. Help me understand it. Kentucky is Hawaii from where I grew up on which is Saskatchewan,Canada. The arctic blast hits us before it gets down Stateside and we still went to school regardless if it’s friggin -50. He may have a point...Americans are getting whinier every damn year.
I’ve held jobs where staying home was not an option. So we went out no matter what. However that’s no longer the case. So I say if you can afford to wait it out, do it.
I am hoping that was taken out of context. I would like to think he was referring to how some places are closed down from a dusting of snow. Because the roads aren’t cleaned off enough on the backroads, etc. And spoke without thinking of the consequences of extreme cold these two days. Kentucky normally doesn’t get as cold as a lot of places North. These couple days are exceptional for Kentucky.
Well, your god daughter is tough.
The Governor must not be a lawyer. One school bus accident on an ice patch would beggar the district. So they take the easy way out.
Born in Plattsburgh, NY, all of 56 miles to Montreal, Canada. We never had a snow/weather day in the early 50’s. We carried our ice skates to Kindergarten.
Our area kids were out two days now but they don’t miss school. They each have take home computers (all grades) and they have assignments that need to be completed and turned in to the teacher by specific times. Our school system never has snow days.
Public schools don’t offer anything that is worth your children suffering frostbite or any other cold related injuries.
Uh, he was referring specifically to Kentucky schools being closed. There was no snow or ice on the roads and the temperatures were low single digits. Also, he was half joking if you listen to his full interview.
Growing up in school in Kentucky, we were expected in school regardless. A lot of kids had to get early and feed the livestock irrespective of weather before the start of school.
Now they get off school just on a forecast. The screw off day is for the teachers, more than anything, who don’t want to be inconvenienced.
You don’t have the ability to deal with the cold. There will be issues due to this. Am from Wisconsin, you are soft! Grow up, are you a millennial or something?
Count Yourself Lucky. In Winnepeg its 40 below. A normal Canadian winter. Lasts about 3 weeks to 6 weeks.
Where is that global warming?
8 degrees here on The Jersey Shore(11 pm. EST) wind is northwest at 10 mph. Going to be biter cold here most of the week. Fairly common for NJ. Lot of the time we get a lot of snow. I don’t see the sense in making young kids go out in weather like this.
I received a robo call from the trash disposal company regarding tomorrow’s pickup. It will not occur due to the safety of their drivers.
Agreed
When it gets below minus 10 or so
It’s downright dangerous
They cancelled all schools in my area, including the one I went to, which rarely did it when I was growing up, while nearby ones would.
I think part of the problem today is people lack common sense and I worry about stupid parents not paying attention to kids’ welfare, and them freezing to death outside.