Back in 78 we were out of school for better than a week because of the big blizzard.
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Not us, we missed one day and I remember it well. Mostly because I lived “too close” to the school to have school bus service (I lived 9/10th’s of a mile away) and I had to walk every day. Getting through that snow and down a road that did not have sidewalks next to it was a real bear.