When I was a kid growing up in Kansas, we went to school in all types of weather, except tornados and blizzards.
10 miles up hill to school and 10 miles up hill back home.
Kansas... Hill? Yeah, right!
My dad always used to tell us about the hill next to his house in Topeka when he was a kid. How they used to sled down it and roll down it in the summertime. We went to look at the old farm, and the house was on land about as flat as a billiard table. We asked him where the hill was, and he says "What are you talking about, IT'S RIGHT THERE!!!"
:) After enduring such uphill battles, you must be glad it's all downhill now.
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"