Due to cold weather -35 no school Monday and Tuesday

[JanaDee]

So far we just have a 2 hour delay for in the morning. Right now the wind is really blowing. Our town is out of rock salt, so they aren't getting salted any more.

DD is a Senior and right now they are 2 days past her graduation day for make-up days and they were told they have to make them up and will be changing graduation day. Grrrrr

Salt doesn't work when it is this cold, anyway.

 

[Funfire240]

In NW OH they are home yet again today (were off on Friday and expected to be off tomorrow also). The state allows 5 days and this is our 9th so their year will be extending. Today wasn't so much the cold but the snow again - a 20 minute drive took me 50 because of white out conditions.
We're lucky that DH works afternoon/nights so in the 2 hours where we overlap we take them next door to his parents.

 

[doobie11]

Southwestern Ontario here. Buses cancelled today, but school is open. No outdoor recess though. Our board here does not cancel school ahead of time. They wait until that morning. We've only had one day so far this year that school was actually closed, but many days of no buses. I find it interesting that in the States, your schools have to make up all these snow days somewhere. We don't. Our school year goes until the end of June, I can't imagine them making it go any later! We are legally required to have 194 instructional days in the school year. I guess having that many allows us some leeway when we have snow days.

 

[Narnia_girl]

we are in Dc suburbs. School started back 1/2--we came back from FL to not miss 2 days of school--guess what, no school on Friday 1/3 b/c of snow--could've stayed in Fla 4 more days!

Same here...we came back from Florida because school started Jan. 6 but then they had a snow day!

In my neck of the woods (Central VA) we got 1" of snow last week (other parts of the area got a little more but I didn't even get enough to cover my grass) which caused school to be cancelled for 4 days. I was fortunate that my ex-husband's mom is in town and could watch our children. But it stunk being out of routine.

Wow, haha, the only time we had four days off in a row was in Snowmageddon (22" inches) in 2011.

 

[PrncessA]

I grew up in rural Tennessee, where we would miss school for less than an inch of snow. Now live near Chicago, where school is only called off for snow if it is a blizzard but the bitter cold gets school called off more often than not.

I know that our school, and most in a few surrounds villages, are filled with mostly "walkers" and it is too cold for the children to walk to school. We literally live one house away from the school, which as close as if I drove them or they got off the bus, and I felt guilty letting them walk on Friday, before the really bitter cold hit. I could never live farther north than this, BRRRRRRR, I am a whimp!

 

[robinb]

It seems that Madison Wisconsin is the only school district that is open in a 200 mile radius .

 

[kimsuenew]

Hi! Ohio here... another day off. We (I am a teacher) have 3 "make-up" days so far and tomorrow is not sounding well. I think we will be in school until mid July as crazy as this weather has been!

 

[Iowajes]

Our schools are closed for extreme cold. Last week our district tried a delay instead of closing (everyone else closed) and a bus got stuck with kids on it- the fuel lines gelled. Just isn't safe to have kids on buses in this weather, way too cold! Not to mention the children who have to walk!!

Last night they had called a delay, but thankfully they came to their senses and canceled. It was only -10 out, but -40 windchills with heavy 30mph winds and wind gusting 60 mph.

We are a lot less likely to cancel for snow than we are cold. There has to be a pretty good amount of snow for it to be called for that.

 

[havaneselover]

My friend and I laugh at this. She was originally from WI and moved to VA and can't believe how much they call off school for so very little snow!! We get 6-8 inches and still go.....maybe a two hour delay, but that would be it.

I know. It's frustrating. I grew up in Connecticut and have lived in Minnesota and Chicago. But this was a weird circumstance. The neighborhood roads were all sheets of ice and it never got warm enough for the ice to melt. Plus lots of central va is rural.

 

[JanaDee]

It seems that Madison Wisconsin is the only school district that is open in a 200 mile radius .

A handful of schools in NEW are open...including ours.

 

[pigletto]

Where are you in Canada? Here in Winnipeg, the kids go out for recess until -28-lol! The city divisions won't run buses at -35 C (-45 with the windchill), but the schools don't close. The only time they close the schools is if the transit buses won't run AND emergency vehicles won't go. They haven't cancelled school since 1994.

I teach in a rural school division, where 95% of our population is bused. If it is a cold day (same temps as above), classes are cancelled, but we still have to go in. If it is a storm day (no travel advisories) then staff is to stay home as well.

We're in Southern Ontario. Wow..-28. You know I see so many kids at the bus stop without proper winter gear on. I can't imagine sending them out in those temps. I know it's up to the parents, but it appears many of them don't always check what the kids put on before leaving the house, or don't care.. I always have extra gloves in my pocket for anyone who forgot theirs and I've handed them out quite a few times. Thank goodness for the dollar store!
Our buses were cancelled again today. I am not sure why. Like someone else mentioned the decision is made at 6am. It's a large region so maybe the roads were really bad somewhere else. It's cold but bright and sunny with no snow here.

 

[robinb]

A handful of schools in NEW are open...including ours.

I feel your pain! Actually, it's OK by me. I drive my DD to school and I told her that I would pick her up and give her friends a ride home. No biggie as long as my car starts (and it did).

 

[robinb]

Well, I just got the phone call. Madison joins the legion of closed school districts as of tomorrow.

 

[k_reile]

In NW OH they are home yet again today (were off on Friday and expected to be off tomorrow also). The state allows 5 days and this is our 9th so their year will be extending. Today wasn't so much the cold but the snow again - a 20 minute drive took me 50 because of white out conditions. We're lucky that DH works afternoon/nights so in the 2 hours where we overlap we take them next door to his parents.

I am NW ohio too. Did you see on Channel 13 they had something posted on Facebook that the Governor is trying to let the kids out of making up these Polar blast days since the whole state basically have been off. This is our 9th day too. My son is in preschool and does not have class when there is a delay... So he has only been to
School 4 times this month.

 

[JanaDee]

Our school just called off for tomorrow.

 

[eyor44]

I am in Southern MS and we have Winter Weather coming; expecting 2-5 inches of snow and ice. We are not equiped to handle this kind of weather. Our schools have already announced being closed Tuesday and Wednesday.

 

[Claire&TheBoys]

I have FB friends in Pensacola, FL, and their schools are closed for Tuesday and Wednesday, due to threat of winter weather. They may get 3-5" but here in FL we have no equipment to deal with winter precipitation. No one knows how to drive on icy roads, we don't have salt for roads. I'm a bit east of Pensacola and we don't have snow in our forecast, but it's going to be raining and 28* overnight Tuesday, so I won't be surprised if ours gets cancelled on Wednesday just to keep everyone off the roads.

 

[disney1990]

I know a lot of the schools close in the DC/Virginia/Maryland region because we do not have buses equipped to drive in snowy weather. Also we do not have bus drivers that are trained to drive in snowy weather. And, because of budget constraints, this is not likely to change anytime soon. Therefore, when roads are predicted to be bad, schools are closed.

About 10 years ago, in our county, kids got stuck at school overnight because the roads were to bad to get them home. They have been more cautious since then.

 

[ekatiel]

We're in the Houston area, and we're out of school today, too. It's 35 degrees and cloudy

To the districts' credit, it was supposed to be 32 and sleeting, and we may still get a teeny bit of sleet/ice, since the temp is dropping today rather than rising, but it does crack me up that the entire city shuts down for a single icicle! We were delayed on Friday for the same problem (some districts were actually off all day Friday). We cannot handle freezing temps here. It is pitiful!!

 

[Nutbean]

I'm so sick of this extreme cold. We live in the country with propane heat. With the long lasting cold snap (-35C), the demand and therefore costs for propane have skyrocketed. The last two months alone cost us $1000. That's ridiculous!!