School's been out for 3 days here, with only 4" of snow.
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I used to live in Northern Alaska. There was no such thing as a snow day. If you could make it to school there was school happening. And i'm talking no matter what. The only times I didn't go to school was when I was literally frozen inside my house.
In Ottawa, we need about 1 meter (3.28 feet) for it to become a snowday, or a shit ton of ice.
Here in Sweden we seemingly need at least several meters of snow and a possible polar bear infestation.
Can't say I've ever had my school closed because of snow.
[QUOTE=Mister Cool;27369311]Hahah. Living in Canada, I have never had a 'snow day' at school in my entire life.
I remember my teacher telling me one day that it must be at least -50 degrees outside without the wind chill for schools to close down.[/QUOTE]
Even better is the part when you find out that they are lying sacks of shit when it gets to -50 with the wind chill and you still have to haul ass to school.
NC has hardly any systems for clearing the snowy/icy roads, along with a lot of inexperienced drivers in snow. On the morning after it snowed, there were mysterious tire tracks into my ditch.
School canceled on Thursday now, I can't believe I just missed the entire first week of the new semester thanks to snow.
[QUOTE=Badal;27376994]School canceled on Thursday now, I can't believe I just missed the entire first week of the new semester thanks to snow.[/QUOTE]
Are you in NC? In our county, our semester isn't even over. We start in September, go all the way through December, have Christmas break, THEN have finals.
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I wish it would snow where I live. :smith:
4 inches only? :l
I wish it was like that here in Canada.
But we're Canada.
In Texas we close school just for it being cold. I'm not even kidding. People forget how to drive when it's cold. There doesn't need to be ice.
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It never snows where I live, you should be enjoying the snow and the break while you got it.
I'm sorry but this thread is misleading. We didn't get 4 inches of snow. We got 3 inches of snow with an inch of ice on top. It takes 5 minutes to walk 50 feet. At my school most of the walkways are covered in thick ice. The roadways have been cleared pretty well but walking is a hazard. If it was only snow we wouldn't have a problem because snow isn't too hard to walk through. Please don't call the NC school systems pussies because we don't all have shoes with metal cleats in the bottom of them.
Pussy. Minnesota gets a snow storm...... next morning, Schools: Open.
My school announced it was closed before it even started snowing then we got about 6 inches.
Over here in Philadelphia, the city is starting to get more tolerant of snow thanks to our massive blizzard last year.
Before last year and this year, a mere 3 inches could warrant a snow day.
These days, like today, we got 6 inches and they only cancelled school last minute.
we got 4inches here and we didn't close
I didn't know there were so many NC Facepunchers. You would think nobody in this state would know how to use a computer above going to Facebook.
Here in central New York, there are no such things as snow days.
school aid :argh:
[QUOTE=luck_or_loss;27377788]I'm sorry but this thread is misleading. We didn't get 4 inches of snow. We got 3 inches of snow with an inch of ice on top. It takes 5 minutes to walk 50 feet. At my school most of the walkways are covered in thick ice. The roadways have been cleared pretty well but walking is a hazard. If it was only snow we wouldn't have a problem because snow isn't too hard to walk through. Please don't call the NC school systems pussies because we don't all have shoes with metal cleats in the bottom of them.[/QUOTE]
do they not salt the sidewalks where you live
wow, you're lucky, I just now got out today in West Virginia, and will probably have to go back tomorrow :saddowns:
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My school almost never closes, only had a snowday today because of MASSIVE snow
here in canada no one cares if there is too much snow, still gotta go to school
Wait, schools [i]actually[/i] close because of snow?
Never once in my days of living up in the Northern U.S. have I even conceived such a day, so I just assumed such events were completely mythic and only told of in fairy tales.
I'm pretty sure that if we ever got enough snow here in Florida to warrant canceling school, something would be seriously wrong. And I'm not even talking South Florida, even here in Tallahassee if it ever snows it just melts when it hits the ground. But that's a pretty rare occurrence in itself.
When I lived in North Carolina, though, one Sunday night (this must have been back 2001, I'm not entirely sure though) the weather channel said we'd have 4" of snow in the morning, but it ended up being 24".... a little more than the city was ready to deal with. So we got out of school for a whole week :iia:
We got out yesterday for an inch of snow
Today rolls around, theres a half inch of clear ice on the road and it's -28 centigrade
In my area (Just south of the Chicago suburbs) we have a simple rule: If the Superintendent can get his Hummer out of his driveway, there's school. No real number or anything. I live in the most chill school district ever.
You know having snow potentially means accidents.
Roads get slippery, ice forms on the sidewalks.
Someone trips and fall on school property DURING school hours, it is their fault.
Snow days are used for them to clean up the snow and salt the grounds so there is less ice.
Just enjoy the snow day and stop complaining.
[QUOTE=Nsybouts;27369286]In Washington they will cancel school just for one inch[/QUOTE]
uh i live in washington and there has literally been no snow
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