Minnesota Snowstorm!

[hercamore]

Zuyala,

Wow, sounds like you had all the criteria for a snow day. HOw bad does it had to be before the district closes?


herc.

 

[zulaya]

I don't know exactly what the criteria is for Centennial - my district - but I know for where I grew up in the Mounds View School District, which begins 4 miles from me, the only criteria was could the buses get through to pick up the kids. If the buses could get through, then school was on.

That being said, MV didn't have walker zones like Cent. does. We have to walk if you live within a mile of your school and you don't have to cross a major roadway to get there.

I still think it's plain pride that they are able to stay open. Really, what kid is going to have their mind on their schoolwork anyway with the first really BIG snow of the winter? Mine aren't! Granted they are Kindergarten and 1st grade, but still! I don't think it's smart of them at all.

ESPECIALLY as Forest Lake 10 miles north of us closed for the day and Spring Lake Park, the district next to ours is going late start.

Personally, while I would have loved the school to close, I think a late start would have been more appropriate. It would have given the plows a chance to do a good job, given the salt a chance to melt some of the ice that was underneath the snow and maybe kept some people a little safer.

 

[Gretel]

Anoka Henn rarely shuts down. In the last 9 years I think maybe three days.............

 

[zulaya]

DH went to Centennial and the last he remembers them having a snow day was the Halloween blizzard of '91

 

[hercamore]

FINALLY, at l:45 p.m.

we have SNOW



herc

 

[Gretel]

finally at noon we have a snowplow!!!!!!! LOL

 

[hercamore]

Gretel, glad to hear your're plowed!

Are you expecting more snow today?


herc.

 

[bananiem]

Herc- I've been holed-up in my basement office. After seeing your post I looked outside and now we finally have snow too! There isn't a lot of it but it seems to be blowing.
My ds-almost 7 got a little snowboard for Christmas and REALLY wants some snow on our backyard hill! So I'm saying this as a mother, not for myself: C'MON SNOW!!!
ann

 

[elgerber]

2 pm here, and my cul de sac has still not been plowed!!!!!!!!! I give up. It's now starting to get windy, and it's getting colder. At least when it snows like this in March or April, it's stays warm enough to play in, then it goes away.

Erika

 

[hercamore]

Erika, I'd call the city and complain about your no/show snowplowing.

I hear the winds are gonna be pretty strong tonight!


bananiem, yeah, check out the radar!
Looks like a broad band of snow coming in. Kids need to get some snow playtime in this winter. They've been deprived, LOL.

I'm ready! Gotta take pix with my camera.


Herc.