[SamAdams76]

I'm sure you remember back when, but it used to be schools weren't cancelled until the day of the storm.

When I was growing up, they would never cancel school (or anything else) based on a forecast.

They would wait until 5 or 6 am on the day of the storm and make a decision. Many times, we'd go to school and get dismissed at noon if the storm was obviously moving in. But if it wasn't snowing by 6am - we had school!

[nopardons]

Yes, school was NEVER called off BEFORE the storm was ragging! And most of the time, a snow storm wasn't a reason to close school at all. So we trudged to school in snow storms, more often than not.

My great grandmother had lived through the GREAT BLIZZARD OF 1888, so I know family stories about what Manhattan was like during that one and the MUSEUM OF NYC used to have a diorama of that blizzard, that captivated my imagination.

But I lived through the Blizzard of 1947 ( which was supposedly almost as bad as the 1888 one ), and though I was a very tiny child, I still have VERY vivid memories of that one.

And I don't remember anyone being hysterical about blizzards, until lately. The CLIMATE LOONS go into hysterics at the drop of a hat now.