School Snow Day fun

[EACarlson]

Got a phone call Monday afternoon that my local school district was cancelling school Tuesday due to forecast snow. Fine, I think they should have waited as it's not uncommon for storm tracks to shift and miss us entirely. Woke up Tuesday morning and there was a half inch, this is Wisconsin, not Texas, a half inch of snow does not require school cancellation. Went out at 1445 when school would have gotten out. Bare pavement and an additional half inch on the grassy areas, why did we cancel school again? Snow picked up in the evening and we ended up with about 4 inches on the roads, 6 on the grass.

Now the school district is hesitant after all the harassment they took on Tuesday. They waited until 5am to cancel today, hours after a Blizzard Warning was issued. My 2pm we are supposed to be in full on Blizzard conditions, snow of 1 inch per hour for three hours and 50 MPH winds. Supposed to be a foot of snow by noon tomorrow.

I'm very thankful that I have a job that lets me work from home when necessary. I'd be out two days of vacation if I still drove a forklift for a living.

 

[Lord Manhammer]

Got a phone call Monday afternoon that my local school district was cancelling school Tuesday due to forecast snow. Fine, I think they should have waited as it's not uncommon for storm tracks to shift and miss us entirely. Woke up Tuesday morning and there was a half inch, this is Wisconsin, not Texas, a half inch of snow does not require school cancellation. Went out at 1445 when school would have gotten out. Bare pavement and an additional half inch on the grassy areas, why did we cancel school again? Snow picked up in the evening and we ended up with about 4 inches on the roads, 6 on the grass.

Now the school district is hesitant after all the harassment they took on Tuesday. They waited until 5am to cancel today, hours after a Blizzard Warning was issued. My 2pm we are supposed to be in full on Blizzard conditions, snow of 1 inch per hour for three hours and 50 MPH winds. Supposed to be a foot of snow by noon tomorrow.

I'm very thankful that I have a job that lets me work from home when necessary. I'd be out two days of vacation if I still drove a forklift for a living.

My University has kind of adopted this policy of cancelling where there are warnings. Since this is Mass, often the warnings are right but there were a few "egg on our face" moments last winter with cancellations that were much ado about nothing. I agree with you on WFH, being a faculty member and chair gives me a wide berth to make my own judgements on if I want to go in.

 

[Stratman50th]

I get it. Coin toss on weather or not to close schools because of..... weather. Too many puns. Ok, sorry. Thankless job to be the one to make the call on closing or delays. I used to live in MD. One of those states where snow could really be a crapshoot. Getting it and if so, how much. It was also a state where they didn't have the capacity to move snow from a big storm. We used to get a lot of ice storms which was always bad. I don't remember exactly what year it was, mid 2000s though. There was a small storm, predicted on the afternoon about rush hour. They didn't have early dismissal. The beltway around DC was at a complete standstill. School busses were stranded for hours. A lot of Kids didn't get home till after 11:00pm. After that storm, they were a lot more cautious about closings, late openings and early dismissal. Oh yeah, that storm was only a couple of inches but it froze as soon as it hit the pavement.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Suburban Chicago near O'Hare here. My grandsons' schools were canceled yesterday afternoon for today in anticipation of the blizzard starting overnight. It is pretty brutal here now. O'Hare currently has a ground stop. E-learning was going to start this morning but that now is also canceled, too many power outages.

 

[lynxstch]

Suburban Chicago near O'Hare here. My grandsons' schools were canceled yesterday afternoon for today in anticipation of the blizzard starting overnight. It is pretty brutal here now. O'Hare currently has a ground stop. E-learning was going to start this morning but that now is also canceled, too many power outages.

Stay safe Dan!