Funny how pussified liberals are today. Go back even 30 years and it took apocalyptic blizzards to get a snow day.
When I was a kid, school board policy was that if you lived within 2 1/2 miles of your school, you walked to school.
Which we did on many days WAY worse than today.
Of course with a minimum of five miles of walking every day, we did not need a big government anti-obesity initiative.
“Funny how pussified liberals are today. Go back even 30 years and it took apocalyptic blizzards to get a snow day.”
I’ve lived in northern NJ (a dozen miles west of NYC) my whole life; there was NO WAY kids were getting to school this morning. As I was shoveling with the kids this morning, we could hear the police on loudspeakers instructing people to get off the roads - they were getting stuck trying to get up hills and such (and these were the people that could get on the road). This isn’t apocalyptic, but the new-fallen snow is landing on mounds of frozen snow from past storms (nothing is melting), and people are literally running out of places to put it. Most streets are too narrow for cars to pass each other; there isn’t even room for one to pull over to let the other pass.
I posted on another thread earlier this morning that the schools were “open” so the teachers’ union can proclaim they’ve been open 180 days this year; a teacher I know was complaining that if they took winter or spring break days away from them (to make up for excess snow days used) she would be unable to go on a trip she’d planned.