Posted on 02/05/2007 5:14:52 AM PST by yankeedame
I'm here in the Dayton, OH area. We are going through a blast of "dangerous" cold. Today 8 degree expected high, with wind chill of -10 to -15. Otherwise sunny.
I've got the radio on and I'm stunned the number of school closings! (Not to mention the slightly smaller number of "2 hour delays".)
Do you folks have this no-school-today-because-its-too-cold?
I don't know how cold it is here in Mid and northern lower Michigan but the entire area is closed down- they started posting them last night. Yesterday it only made it to 2 degrees, and overnight water pipes were freezing up. They were warning people to stay indoors all of yesterday.
I don't know about other places, but we have had a lot of blowing and drifting snow and country and side roads are very dangerous, that added with the freezing temps ,caused school districts to close.
That is insane to think your kids are on a freaking school bus for an hour a day. No education is worth that!
This is HIGHLY unusual. I believe it's because last Thursday they made the dumb decision to cancel school because of a little snow.
Early in winter they cancel for a dusting. Because we have to make up our snow days at the end of the year, by the end of winter their use of snow days becomes much more judicious.
Here if it's 35 degrees then the kids are stuck inside! I think that's crazy. Send those boogers out to play. They need to run. I have to go out with them, but I bring appropriate clothes and I'd happily go out unless it was in the single digits actual temperature. It's the ADULTS who complain to me about having to go out even when it's anywhere NEAR 35. They don't bother to dress appropriately. Poor kids have to sit there and watch cartoons for a half hour.
The local children attribute this to the teachers not wanting to stand outside.
To: yankeedame
Around here, Massachusetts, allot of schools generally lower their heat over the weekend to save money, so whenever there is a delay or closing because of extremely cold temperatures, it usually happens on a Monday.
They dont have the brights to send someone over on Sunday to crank up the heat?
We were on a hockey road trip with our youngest over the weekend--Milwaukee & Kenosha. 2 degrees was the warmest temp that I saw. My oldest son drove up from Chicago to watch one of the games. He's going to school down there & working at a Jiffy Lube part time. I had the usual Care Package from Home for him plus some of those Hot Hands hand warmers. He's not one to be overly impressed with the Care Package, usually. But I thought he was gonna cry when he saw the Hot Hands. I promptly emptied the car of all the other hand warmers we had on board & gave 'em to him.
When my kids were little, in the hopes that it would bring on snow day, they'd wear their pajamas inside out, kind of like a rally cap in baseball! LOL :-)
So what time is the Colt's parade today?
What a stupid question...why do you ask?
No, s/he just hasn't yet had the morning coffee that will activate the part of the brain that comprehends subtle humor (or possibly lacks it completely, but I was trying to be charitable).
My daughter called me at 7 AM to let me know Kettering was closed and I needed to pick up the kids before she could go to work.
So much for staying in my nice warm bed until about 10.
I anticipate a call Wednesday too.
I grew up here and I don't remember getting a day off due to cold, although we may have.
It's got to be a union thing.
Most schools in the Cleveland area have closed today and I think it was the prudent thing to do. We haven't had temperatures this low since 2000, so it isn't as though this kind of thing happens too often.
I think the bgetter question today would have been are any schools open here it appears everything is shut down
http://www.myfoxmilwaukee.com/myfox/
Click on closings
Wellll, back when I was a youngster, we walked through blinding snow to get to our one room school before that bell rang!
Nah!! Grew up in SoCal when the worst weather was smog...Oh, they've still got it after all these years? Whouda thunk!!
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