And everyone buys bread and milk, even those people who don't drink milk nor eat bread. It's the "storm" thing to do.
This year, they've closed skrewls twice and no snow showed up. They're gun-shy from last winter when an unexpected blizzard appeared mid-morning and dropped 8 inches in about 3 hours. It was a totally surreal mess for the natives here in Music City.
The philosophy is that if even one skrewl bus cannot make its route in complete and and utter safety, then NO one goes. There are some places out in the hills NW of town that can ice up easily and the rest of the area is clear and dry - and they'll shut down the skrewls because of it.
As for attendance - one of the days they shut down this year was AFTER the attendance cutoff, so even though everyone went home at 10:30, it still counted as a skrewl day. We've only used one snow day so far - five are built into the calendar.
Michael