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?
From your link at KSTP:
BUG-O-NAY-GE-SHIG
CLOSED
LOL! What, and where, is that school?
We're open and operating in Watertown. I'm glad the bus picks my son up at the end of our driveway. Brrrrrr....
When it is such that exposed skin freezes schools may close due to cold because of the small children that still have to walk to school.
Currently in western Wisconsin:
Temperature -18.9 F (-28.3 C)
Windchill -36 F (-38 C)
...and killed a saber-toothed polar bear with a loose-leaf notebook!
In Virginia, no. In West Virginia, several counties are on a two hour delay. In Maryland, a few two hour delays.
I grew up here and we NEVER had school closings because of the cold. Two feet of snow - yes, but not when it was zero degrees.
And to boot - we had to walk to school in those days, or wait outside for a bus. Nowdays more than half the kids are chauffeured to school by mommy or daddy.
We are turning into a nation of pantywaists.
thanks teach
I remember my grade school closing in the mountains of western Maryland when it would drop below 0 degrees. It kind of sucked for us because the school building was on a protected side of the mountain, out of the wind, and thus always warmer than our house.
My girls went to a Lutheran grade school which used the public school buses for the local kids. (Other children came in from 20 miles away.) We had a phone system to notify us when school would be closed, but we were always pretty sure that if the Plymouth schools were closing, we would be too.
LOLOL.....I thought our family was the only one with pita's.
In 1971, our GOP mayor sold all the snowplows and equipment, and salt storage silos, and anything with a blade on it.
His reason: "God brought the snow, God will take it away."
He moved to Florida when he left office, by the way.
The city only a few years ago, finally recovered from that particular move. We now have snow plows, yet, not really enough to adequately clear the streets. They will delay school when they believe it will snow heavily. Someone was several hurt a couple years back when their car, on the way to school, slid off the road on a day when they did not delay or close the schools. The family sued.
It's -11oF with a Wind Chill of -27o here in the Chi area and only a couple suburban schools closed. ALL Chicago Public Schools are open
C'mon, suck it up!
(kidding)
Just curious, are you drunk?
Tornados didn't stop us, we had shoes made of thick lead for such occasions. Just put your head down and keep walking.
As for blizzards, one day I was walking to school against a driving ice storm, for every forward step I took the wind and ice made me take two steps back the way I came. I simply had to turn around and walk backwards to school. After getting to school the teacher announced that there would only be a half day of school that morning, hoorays all around! Then she said, "we'll have the other half this afternoon"
No but the children are not permitted out to recess when the temp and wind chill combine to make 15 degrees.
Nation of Wimps!
Okay, well, I went to St. Ann's for 1st and 2nd grade, St. Christopher's for 3rd (my mom remarried and we moved to the westside for a while), then we moved back to the south and I went to St. Mark's from 4th through 8th. Went to Roncalli my freshman year. Then we moved to Morgan County (mom and stepdad bought 57 acres out there and we built a house where they still live). I went to Eminence High School for the duration, then IU down in Bloomington. My dad's family lives in Indianapolis still, and my mom's brother and his wife.
Then I got married in '95 and bounced around the country (and out of it) as a Navy wife. Lived in OK for 5.5 years, and moved to Madison almost a year ago. Long way back, but it's good to be a Hoosier again!
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