No Snow Yet? Cancel Classes Anyway!

[Greenday]

God I love my school. We are anticipating another blizzard tomorrow so school is already canceled. Guess our new president that's from North Dakota is trying to show he's a cool guy. I think he's cool. He deserves a raise!

[AdminAssistant]

God I love my school. We are anticipating another blizzard tomorrow so school is already canceled. Guess our new president that's from North Dakota is trying to show he's a cool guy. I think he's cool. He deserves a raise!

Guh, I long for a snow day. But our new (and otherwise awesome) Chancellor from North Carolina apparently doesn't have much experience with snow. The only time they shut down the University was over Christmas break when a foot of snow fell in one day (just shut down the handful of offices that were open).

[Rine]

We had the possibility of one to two inches of snow a few weeks back and school was cancelled. Then again...I live in Florida so people were in panic mode. We had fifteen glorious minutes of snow.

This is the first school year that I know of where we have to make up a hurricane day and a snow day. :D

Have fun on your snow day!

[Greenday]

We had the possibility of one to two inches of snow a few weeks back and school was cancelled. Then again...I live in Florida so people were in panic mode. We had fifteen glorious minutes of snow.

The first time my friend from Florida saw snow down South, she had her sun roof open and was trying to catch snow in her mouth while driving 70 on the highway. It's not THAT exciting...

I was going to celebrate with a friend tonight, but then her dad decided to just pick her up for the weekend tonight. LAME.

[fireheart]

:lol: We don't even HAVE snow days down here. :p

But I have no classes for the first week of uni bar one lecture. Tutorials don't start until the second week and the lecturer for my other topic is away in Sweden. :lol:

[protege]

When I was younger, we *rarely* had snow days. There had to be about a foot of snow on the ground...otherwise, you went to school. Also, my district rarely had 1 or 2-hour delays. Wouldn't have mattered anyway...I went to a Catholic grade school, which served multiple school districts. If there was a delay, rather than let us stay home like *normal* people...my parents would insist on driving us :rolleyes:

[Greenday]

Snow isn't sticking at all. Which in one sense is good cause I can still safely drive around. But then unless it starts sticking, we might have classes tomorrow.

Edit: Aw, damnit, the snow is finally accumulating...on my car. I hate clearing my car off. This means I might not be able to go to the bars tonight. Though it may mean the snow will finally accumulate on the roads and I will have tomorrow off! (Even though I just have to hand a paper in which I'm finishing up now and then we debate stem cell research for 50 minutes)

[Amina516]

I didnt understand why they canceled my sons school for the day either.

We got AT MOST maybe 3 inches today. And it half melted as it came down...lol

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I have come to the conclusion that Northeast winters are worse than Wisconsin winters, at least in the snow department.

We don't get two feet or more at a crack from one storm. There's no such thing as a Nor'easter here.

[Amina516]

IPF, this is the worst winter since the 1950's....:) Lucky me to be living through it. Lol.

Winters arent usually this bad though. Theres snow and all but not this much. And never the winds that are around at the moment making some areas blizzard like and making huge snow drifts that are several feet deep. Lol.

[BookstoreEscapee]

My roommate is sick of the snow days. They're interfering with her lesson plans. Especially when added to the various religious services and whatnot (Ash Wednesday, etc. - she teaches at a Catholic school) that pull her kids out of class. Last time it snowed she had 15 minutes for math the whole week.

[PepperElf]

you mean you dont have to wait?

.... even the local college here won't decide to close until the day of the snow.
past 2 days they've been closed here... this morning they were on a delayed opening at 10 but at 945 they changed it to closed...


which also means that anyone who lived far away and was on the road at 945 prolly didn't know it was closed...

[Greenday]

Sometimes, if the snow is supposed to really be that bad, they cancel school the night before. They canceled Friday's classes too (once again, I have no idea why since the roads were clear) but didn't let us know until 5am Friday. They send text messages and emails to everyone.

I definitely celebrated last night at the bars. WAYYYYYY too hard though...

[Soulstealer]

My old uni hasn't had a snow day since the 80s and they're proud of that. They have their own power access so if there's a black out then the dorms and buildings will be fine (last time was during winter break so they didn't care anyway, but that's more a rant about the power company not keeping up like they promised).

They're proud they haven't had a snow day and this winter may be worse than usual but damn it! There's tradition now, I don't think they'll close for anything short of an official emergency where the government forces them.

[Becks]

I have come to the conclusion that Northeast winters are worse than Wisconsin winters, at least in the snow department.

Irv, they're usually much better than ours.

Ask Bella about the time I called her a couple of years ago to tell her it was snowing.

I think she might've forgiven me by now. :blink:

[protege]

Winters arent usually this bad though. Theres snow and all but not this much. And never the winds that are around at the moment making some areas blizzard like and making huge snow drifts that are several feet deep. Lol.

Yep, we got an entire winter's worth of snow in about 3 weeks :eek: I'm tired of it--it snowed again last night, and I still have about 2 feet in the yard, and about 4-5 feet of snow piled either side of the driveway. Seriously, this crap isn't melting but keeps coming. When it does melt, the weight of the snow causes it to pack into ice.

But, the worst storm I remember, was back in the early 1990s. 1990-91 was hard. That year, some of us were up in the mountains. There was already 3 feet of snow up there. That weekend, the blizzard hit. Ever see a minivan get buried in a 7-foot drift? Took all day to dig that thing out...and a trip home that normally would have taken less than 2 hours...took well over 3. Most roads were empty and littered with stuck cars. Once home, we didn't leave our street for a week! Trust me, trying to deliver newspapers in that sucked.

Also remembered, was one in '79. That one sticks out, because it wasn't supposed to snow as much as it did. Late storm, meant that Mom's VW station wagon (a proper one, with the engine in the tail :p) didn't have snow tires. Not wanting to risk an accident, she left the car at home, and picked me up at nursery school...with a sled :lol:

[Bella_Vixen]

Ask Bella about the time I called her a couple of years ago to tell her it was snowing.

I think she might've forgiven me by now. :blink:


I remember that. It was when Milwaukee had that record snowfall season.

I...guess...I've forgiven you.

:blink:

:lol: