WOO HOO Snow day tomorrow!

[KKB]

I was shocked they cancelled today...our last super NEVER cancelled. This gal is far more conservative...I feel she does communicate w/ roads crews, which is good. We have never had to move this much snow in such short order. If there wasn't 2 ft. of snow on the ground already, I bet we would have had school.
I am nearly certain we won't have school tomorrow--high of 0 w/ blizzard winds. Friday same temps but no wind--tougher to say at this point.
Bummer is if won't don't go tomorrow we are out of snow days...and they are predicting another huge storm in 2 wks. Add minutes or use days? We do have 2 days off in 2 wks for semester break...but they won't use them unless they have to, so I'm guessing that won't happen. The question is how many minutes/day added will it take....
OH, well, guess I'll just enjoy the day!
(PS I'm in Lincoln NE)

 

[Chelley00]

I live in Central Indiana as well, and having lived other places where you get a ton more snow, I can say that Central Indiana is ill prepared for a 3-6" snowfall. We rarely get that much, so people don't know how to drive on it (or don't care) There aren't a ton of plows, so even if you try to leave your house because the main roads are cleared, you may not make it out of your neighborhood and it could take 2 days for it to be plowed. And I live in the surburbs of Indianapolis, so it's not like I'm out in the country or anything. If it hits during rush hour, we're screwed.

Plus, Indiana is FLAT, so everything blows and drifts and closes back roads. They use ice melt here, so they melt the snow, then it freezes back up because it's so cold. The wind chill gets brutal when it's that flat and the winds are so strong.

My DS lives in Chicago, and I've been there when it's snowed almost a foot and had no trouble on the roads, yet on the way home got stuck by 4 inches.

 

[ceecee]

I'm in Ohio, last I heard they were calling for 3". Monday they said we would get 1-3 and we got none! They have used the ice melt stuff on 4 dry days and the neighboring community has salted 3 times and they wonder why we run out of salt by mid winter? Our local grocery was packed! This is not an area where you are snowed in for days! But people panic I guess. As a child we lived in a little country town and were snowed in for a week or more at a time, of course it was FUN then! We had to make our own bread and milk with dry powder!
I work 2 days a week for a dentist and we get cancellations as soon as the weather says snow!

 

[bushdianee]

They say 3-6" but that is on top of the 24 we already have on the ground from the 2 Dec. blizzards. Plus the temps and wind chills are really bad. Yesterday when I left for school the temp was -14 and the wind chill -33. I had kids with broken zippers, no hats, etc. It is supposed to get really windy around rush hour with blizzard like conditions.
I am booking my Disney trip on Sat. and am changing my dates just in case! I had wanted to arrive on May 27 but am changing it until June 1. In the past we have made up time on previously scheduled days off or they add minutes on the days to make the time.

 

[Misty89]

our forecast is for 4-8, but thats nothing around here
it takes 12+ too close our schools



Tina

 

[3boymthr]

Oh My I'm laughing that you knew you were going to have a snow day for 3 inches of snow. I'm with a pp takes way more than that for them to cancel school around here. So far we've had several storms one with over 15 inches and no snow days. Last year we didn't have any snow days despite more than 10 storms - though we did have one day with a 1 hr delay.

I know that they don't have the equipment for it where you are it but it's still funny to me.

 

[tinkmom2]

I live a few blocks off the lake and we missed our last snowstorm and everything was inland. This one they say the lake areas could get 10-12inches. But I don't know if it will be here in time to call off school?

 

[DISdreamin']

The worst situation I have ever seen around here was when we got a really heavy (and by that I mean super-heavy-and-wet) lake-snow and they let schools out and closed businesses mid-day. Everything would have been fine if the plow crews had the roads to themselves, but there was such a traffic jam that the plows had a rough time getting through. They were still finding stranded cars in snowbanks next to the highway the next day - they had to paint the snowbank where the cars were so the plows didn't smack them!

Overall, that storm only dumped maybe 18-24 inches of snow, the problem was it did it at a rate of 5-6 inches an hour for a couple hours. 10-12 inches of snow *is* a lot when it's all dumped in the span of 120 minutes. We were stopping at each traffic light and cleaning off the windshield - the wipers would only move a few inches/degrees by then and you could barely see.

 

[J'aime Paris]

I live a few blocks off the lake and we missed our last snowstorm and everything was inland. This one they say the lake areas could get 10-12inches. But I don't know if it will be here in time to call off school?

Tinkmom2: I live inland Milwaukee and we did get about 15in. from that storm. We had a snow day and now have to make it up in February.
Good ole WI weather!! Hoping this forcasted storm doesn't end up like that...

 

[G's mommy]

Will school really be cancelled for just 3-6 inches of snow?

Come to GA! 3 inches might as well be 3 feet! Schools close here at the first sight of a snowflake!!! Considering Metro Atlanta and southward get maybe one snow a year if that, we have no plows to speak of. no one has equipment for any type of snow. We get more ice than anything and it can make the roads pretty slick and school buses will not run. If buses don't run, there is no school here. We may get 1/2 to 1 inch tomorrow afternoon and evening and the kids are already counting on a day off on Friday! We'll see.

 

[ShelsGoingToDisney]

Will school really be cancelled for just 3-6 inches of snow?

I am in Omaha, not sure where OP is. We have the same weather today, 3-6" and school is called off. Normally it wouldn't be but the snow is combined with high winds this afternoon that create a blizzard like condition with the falling snow and the temps are in the single to negative digits with forecasted wind chills up to -40 degrees. Just not safe to have kids on the streets and at bus stops. Not to mention a lot of the busses won't start with this cold. I will not be surprised if we have snow days the next 2 days as well due to the cold.

 

[KKB]

Winds just started about an hour ago--wow, times I cannot see more than half a block.
Mom said the main roads were very slick at noon. So this decision is as much about keeping cars off the road to minimize accidents and allow for best street cleaning.
We get snow...just not usually more than 6" at a time, and it melts soon...this 2 ft. on the ground to already work around plus more...luckily an abnormal situation.
Word has it we are out the rest of the week due to the extreme cold. Not official yet, though.
(actually am doing web work for a grad class today...and cooking...and catching up on TV)

 

[StephMK]

I am in Omaha, not sure where OP is. We have the same weather today, 3-6" and school is called off. Normally it wouldn't be but the snow is combined with high winds this afternoon that create a blizzard like condition with the falling snow and the temps are in the single to negative digits with forecasted wind chills up to -40 degrees. Just not safe to have kids on the streets and at bus stops. Not to mention a lot of the busses won't start with this cold. I will not be surprised if we have snow days the next 2 days as well due to the cold.

We're in Omaha too & DH is predicting the same thing. I haven't seen the winds start up yet but guess they are coming. At least this weather is good for the destashing project I'm working on for the other thread!


KKB - what are you studying? I'm in school too but it hasn't started back up yet.

 

[Liberty Belle]

Will school really be cancelled for just 3-6 inches of snow?

Oh yeah, definitely. Roads just do not get cleared as quickly here as they do in the North. I guess we don't have enough equipment or manpower for that job.

We're supposed to get 3-5 inches on Thursday and the grocery stores are packed.

Plus, some places of Kentucky are very hilly and mountainous. The school systems do not want to put children and bus drivers at risk.

ETA: I just read our Winter Storm Warning on weather.com: * TIMING... SNOW WILL LIKELY BEGIN DURING THE PRE-DAWN HOURS THURSDAY WEST OF INTERSTATE 65 AND OVERSPREAD THE BLUEGRASS REGION SHORTLY AFTER SUNRISE. SNOW WILL END OR TAPER OFF TO FLURRIES BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL LIGHT SNOW MAY LINGER THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS ACROSS SOUTHERN INDIANA.

* MAIN IMPACT: TOTAL SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 5 INCHES ARE LIKELY ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTHERN INDIANA. WITH TEMPERATURES REMAINING WELL BELOW FREEZING... THIS SNOW WILL READILY STICK. EXPECT DETERIORATING ROAD CONDITIONS AND DIFFICULT TRAVEL THURSDAY MORNING.

* OTHER IMPACTS: VERY COLD ARCTIC AIR WILL ARRIVE BY EARLY EVENING THURSDAY. NORTHWEST WINDS UP TO 15 MPH WILL BRING BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW THAT MAY REDUCE VISIBILITIES. WIND CHILL READINGS WILL LIKELY FALL TO BETWEEN 0 AND 10 ABOVE DURING THE EVENING HOURS.

I'm in the Bluegrass Region, so it's supposed to start here "shortly after sunrise." Arrgh. That's such a pain. That probably means we'll have school, but it will close early. I'm a para educator and it's such a mess when that happens. I hope it hits earlier than expected, so we can just have a regular snow day.

 

[KKB]

KKB - what are you studying? I'm in school too but it hasn't started back up yet.

I actually attend UNO! DH & I are getting our Media Specialist Endorsement (re:librarian). We both have our provisional certificate & I was lucky enough to get a media job last fall (tho in 2 different buildings). We attend class once/month on Fri/Sat or Sun and do everything else online. Our teacher for this course is having us read 3 short pieces & write 3 paragraphs on the readings, so nothing big.
We met w/ the head of the program last night & I thought I had 2 1/2 years to go; but found out my 6 grad hours of math will count as my electives! SO I will be done in a year! (DH is bummed...he will still have to do those 6 hrs). Only 9 more hours would get me my masters...but we are both on the "masters" pay level (you can get it for BA+36 grad hrs)...so we would have to take 21 MORE hours to jump up a pay level...we both plan to retire at 55, so DH has NO interest (only 8 more years for him) and I know I don't want to do any admin work...so not real incentive to get that masters except to say "I did it"--frankly I don't think that is worth the cost/effort/headache of 9 more hours. (hey, I will have done 60 hrs of grad work since college when all is said and done--I've done my time!)
No snow announcement yet in here or Omaha...Bellevue has cancelled.
Noticed C. Bluffs doesn't even schedule snow days in! They have ALREADY lengthened the year a week.

 

[TheRatPack]

We are expecting a dusting.....maybe (huge maybe) 1" and the schools are already closed.....there is no snow, flurries...nothing. I homeschool mine... so no snow days for us LOL

 

[HeyIt'sMe]

People freak out around here when they hear 3"-6" of snow. I went to the grocery store this afternoon to pick up a few things and this is what the bread aisle looked like ---

I took a picture with my cell phone to send to my sister. We laugh because whenever there is a report of snow there is always a run on milk, bread and eggs. What? Do people stay home and make French Toast? HA!

And when I got out of the store I noticed the gas station was packed!

So speaking of gas stations - DH comes home from work today and said he needs to get up super early tomorrow. Yes, I say, you'll want to give yourself extra time because of the snow. No, he say, he needs to get gas because he's running on "a fart and prayer". Why do guys do that?? Let their gas tank get so low?? He said he was going to go to the gas station by the grocery store I was at earlier today but it was swamped (still!).

So, I decide to be nice and go get gas in his car at 7:45pm. I figured the gas rush would be over. Know what? That gas station was STILL swamped! Even worse than before. I had to drive to another gas station about 10 minutes away....they were busy but had pumps available.

AH!

 

[Misty89]

Since i posted, our totals have been upgraded, we are now in the 8"-12" range.





Tina

 

[DISdreamin']

We're getting freezing rain/drizzle right now. Makes for a nice crunchy coating on top of the snow.

So, if this keeps up there *is* hope for a snow day here! Snow usually won't do it, but freezing rain...maybe!

 

[Disneycrazymom]

I am in the St Louis area and it is snowing here now. They are saying 3-4 inches. I am hopeful they will call all 3 schools tonight so we can all sleep in tomorrow!.