Overreacting to Weather

[DarkShadow144]

new jersey

in high school i was pretty sure not even a fucking meteor strike would warrent canceling school

but now i go to a community college not very far from where i live and they are almost the exact opposite. if even a quarter of an inch falls they feel classes should be canceled...fucking pussies

 

[LawlessSquirrel]

Australia, Queensland, and to my knowledge they only close the schools when the whole school's underwater and/or there's no route available leading to the school.

It got to points so hot that I could put ice in a glass and have a glass of water made for me in under a minute (was a nice WTF moment), and the schools kept running. They'll still throw a hundred or so students in close quarters for an hour a week without a second thought. Probably because the teachers get the only rooms with aircon. I'm using heat and floods as examples because, while it gets cold enough to see your breath on occasion, we don't get snow here. But I digress.

Takes a lot to close a school for weather here. I don't think I've ever seen it officially done more than once.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

1. Missouri
2. Depends. Through.. erm... non-college school, we had some douche from Colorado that didn't understand that here we get ice, not snow. So for a few years, it was pretty bad and we had to go. Now, in college/and other school too I guess, if we get 2-4 inches over night and it is still snowing at around 5am, they usually call it off. It is more of a "if they can get the school buses out and ready in time" issue with non-college school.

 

[quiet_samurai]

1. Spokane WA

2. Nothing ever closes do to weather. Okay, one time shit in town didn't bother opening and some of the schools closed. But that's only because we got nearly 20 inches in less then 24 hours... and that was just the first day of about three or four.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

New Mexico.
Light dusting of snow. Seriously, we freak the fuck out, even though there's usually no evidence of snow(or even that it's currently winter) by around 12.

 

[Senaro]

Florida: Hurricane or get your ass to school.

 

[MassiveGeek]

In Sweden our schools never get canceled. Hell, the snow can be 2 meter high and the wind blowing like hell and we are still required to go.

No such thing as to snowy or anything here.

Why would you complain if you get to skip school??
I live in Sweden, and we have really harsh weather. And we never close our schools, that's ridiculous. We go to school even if it's -40[sup]o[/sup] and a blizzard, you're all wimps! (jk)

What these guys said.

Sweden basically has a law(it's actually a saying but it seems to apply in any situation by default): "There is no bad weather, only bad clothes."

So. Yeah.

 

[GotMalkAvian]

1. Massachusetts, USA
2. The likelihood of cancellations is inversely proportionate to the amount of actual snow that ends up on the ground; except for the first predicted storm of the season, before which everyone panics, grocery stores are ransacked the day before, and everything is shut down.

 

[KorLeonis]

1. Calgary, Alberta

2. Never seen the schools closed. Enough ice and the buses will shut down, but not the schools. -30/35 C with the wind chill is common enough in the winter here, and its not enough to shut things down.

 

[SinisterGehe]

Finland, at best during this winter we had -25*C and 50cm of snow, and I still had to drag my ass to school by waking up 7 am, going out to the bus stop (Walking 200 meters trough my back forest in snow) taking a slow bus to town, then taking another bus to the school. After that I walked home and got there faster than I did with a bus... And everything here functioned as they are supposed to, nothing was closed, not even the Airport... Now we got 50cm of snow and on top of that 4cm of ice... Guess what, nothing has changed, schools and everything else is still open.

Finnish school system has canceled school day once, that was during mass air raids during 2nd world war...
According to law, we are allowed to stay inside the school building during breaks if there less than -20*C outside... (Doesn't apply for 2nd level education, we can do whatever the fuck we want and no one gives a shit...)

Some countries just need to man up a bit... Or grow up as a unisex saying so no one gets offended.

 

[gerbil234]

London, Ontario. 1 foot usually won't close our schools, but 1.5 or two will. We recently got just over a meter (3.5 feet) and the city was shut down for a single day. Toronto got half that last year and they declared a state of emergency

 

[baddude1337]

1) Devon, UK.

2: Quite a bit. Being in a small village if it snows were basically a bit screwed, especially seeing as the snowfall over the past few months was the worst we'eve ever had

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Where I am it seems really inconsistent. There are some times where the streets can look absolutely terrible but nothing is really closed or shut down. A couple of days ago, it snowed covering grassy bits, sidewalks and, streets in under an inch or so of snow which completely closed down local schools and whatnot.

 

[adakias]

Southern Georgia.
It doesn't really snow here. We got a wonderful "wintery mix" that amounted to a bizarre layer of ice over everything two weeks ago, but school's were already out.
It'll snow here when hell freezes over. We're probably close enough to get caught up in that if it ever happens.

 

[Thundero13]

1. Ireland
2. Any amount of snow but no amount of ice

 

[hecticpicnic]

1.Ireland
2.'Bout half a snowflake
No one is prepared to deal with snow acept fairly inland,
and so no one can travel to even the shop,also the roads are crap.
But i do agree with when they see the smallest bit of ice they dump mountains
of grit everywhere.

 

[spartan231490]

Ok, here's the deal. I am currently attending the University of Oklahoma (Norman Camupus). classes just started up 3 days ago, so everyone is still in vacation mode. Last year they got some pretty severe snow stormes and only yesterday, the head grounds keeper stated that they were "fully prepared to keep the roads and walks clear of snow" which would allow classes to go on as scheduled.

Here's the thing: It's currently 19 degrees, it snowed last night (between 1 & 2 inches), and there is barley any ice on the ground (seriously, there's probably more salt then ice on the roads).

But dispite the minimal amounts of ice and snow, dispite all that prep and posturing, and dispite all the precausions being properly implemented... THEY STILL CANCLED CLASSES FOR THE DAY!
It just seems rather like they are overreacting abit to me.

According to my room mate, in his home town of Springfield Illinois, it would usually take more then 6 inchs of snow/ice and a single didget or negative temperature to cancle schools.

My question to you, my fellow Escapists, is two fold.
1) Where do you live?
2) How bad does the weather have to be to close schools?

I live in potsdam, and my school doesn't cancel classes. ever. We have gone to classes when it is -25 and when it snowed a foot and a half overnight. I had a proffessor cancel a class once, but that was because he was snowed into his house, and the other classes continued.

 

[GeorgW]

In Sweden our schools never get canceled. Hell, the snow can be 2 meter high and the wind blowing like hell and we are still required to go.

No such thing as to snowy or anything here.

Why would you complain if you get to skip school??
I live in Sweden, and we have really harsh weather. And we never close our schools, that's ridiculous. We go to school even if it's -40[sup]o[/sup] and a blizzard, you're all wimps! (jk)

What these guys said.

Sweden basically has a law(it's actually a saying but it seems to apply in any situation by default): "There is no bad weather, only bad clothes."

So. Yeah.

Well, a friend of mine goes in a T-shirt and shorts no matter what weather, and I've worn the same in the middle of winter a few times as well, so I'd say it's more like "There's no bad weather."

 

[FalloutJack]

{1} I live in Pittsburgh.

{2} We need lots of snow first, possibly a disaster to sweeten the deal.

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

I live up in Reno, which is in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Schools don't generally close unless there's five inches or more of snow, or the roads get insanely icy. It occasionally gets that bad, but it's a rarity.