Wait for it... wait for it... wait for it..... CLOSE EVERYTHING!!!

[muckinscavitch]

I live in Manitoba, Canada. I have only ever had 1 snow day (and am now in third year university). I think that snow day was in grade 5 or 6 or so.
I distinctly remembering walking to school in grade 11, the streets had been getting plowed all night as it snowed (Winnipeg has like... 4-5 FLEETS of snow plows, spread throughout the city), but the snow on the sidewalk was easily close to stomach height.

You see, we don't shut down due to snow... ever... We just deal with it like it is nothing I find it funny how lots of places in Canada and the States call in the army and declare emergencies over just a few inches... quite funny actually.

Note: Calling in the army may be an exageration for a few inches, but some places do do it. However, places that close down over a few inches is just as funny.

 

[Baron Von Evil Satan]

Well, currently I live in Virgina. We got out of school an hour early due to snowfall, even though it was only about and inch. So far it looks like we'll be getting a delay tomorrow as well. However, our superintendent is odd. He cares more about ice as opposed to snow.

I lived in Alaska a few years back, so it's just laughable to see everyone freak out over an inch of snow.

 

[Wolfenbarg]

I live in Colorado, but pretty much on the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Because of that, we get sheltered from a lot of bad weather. Denver and Pueblo will be buried, and we'll only have a couple inches. Because of that, we don't get a lot of closings because of snow unless the roads really are iced up. People don't really care a whole lot about snow here actually.

 

[Kevonovitch]

just like anywhere else that dosen't get much snow, public fearmongering, and uselessly stupid panic. all i do is go have fun

 

[Jedoro]

I live in Tennessee, likely close to the OP, and we freak the fuck out when snow falls. If it sticks, schools are closed.

 

[Trivun]

Here in the UK, it really depends on the school. Council run schools tend to shut as soon as the snow starts falling, but other schools (like the grammar school I went to, which was council-affiliated but run separately by a board of elected governors) vary. My old school tended to stay open unless it got really bad, which never happened while I attended the place, though the year after I left I was informed by friends still at the school that a snow day was indeed called. For barely an inch of snow.

Now though, at university we have to make it in regardless, it's down to the lecturers themselves to cancel or postpone things since the university doesn't take responsibility for them. So if the lecturer can get through the snow then we all have to, or try and catch up (which thankfully is pretty easy with online resources ). I live about 200m away from campus anyway, so it's easy for me to get to uni. As for work, I still have to make it in if possible, I work at a supermarket so we could close if there's massive trouble and no-one can get in, but usually we stay open (we haven't had to close so far ). Though one day was really bad, I was the only person on my section to get to work aside from the manager (there's normally at least four or five of us on at any one time) and we had to get cover from other sections to help us out. To be fair I did spend ages helping people push their cars up the massive hill outside the store before my shift started, so it wasn't just us who were working who had snow troubles...

I dread to think what it'll be like next week though. My dad's picking me up on Thursday next week so I can go home for Christmas, but he'll have to drive from Birmingham up to Leeds and back (for non-UK Escapists that's roughly 120 miles each way on the motorway), and the snow is supposed to start again by then and make it insanely tough to travel. I can't even get the train instead because they reckon there'll be too many delays...

 

[Atmos Duality]

We cope with the white stuff pretty nicely, albeit slowly.
In the last decade, we've gone from having over-reactionary "SALT EVERY MOTHER FUCKING THING! TWICE!" to "No such thing as Snow-days for your school!"

I recall 2004 being a wonderfully disastrous year though; the city officials blew a ton of money salting for a storm that barely happened, only to be completely buried 3 weeks later.

 

[mr-fix_it]

I live in Stockholm in Sweden and we got snow fucking everywhere but I've never even heard about schools closing in my entire child hood (I'm in my tent year of school) and its never been closed schools for my dad neither who grew up in a colder place (Helsingland) so yeah the schools attitude is "we don't give a shit if its snow everywhere and our shitty trains stopped working GET YOUR ASS TO SCHOOL LIKE A REAL VIKING YOU PUSSY OR YOU WILL BE EATEN BY POLAR BEARS"
so yeah I've never seen any school close and I doubt I ever will.

 

[Blind Sight]

Snow is a bloody constant here, Ottawa gets a ton of Hudson Bay weather going down the valley, makes it damn cold.

 

[Finebrew]

I live in Idaho. Always took a really horrible blizzard or -20 or colder for them to get a snow day.

 

[sheic99]

Never had a snow day, if I did get snow there probably wouldn't be any school for awhile because no one in San Diego has snow tires, save a few, and we don't have anything to clear the snow with.

That said, I bet no one here as ever had a fire day before. "Oh that Wildfire burned down some farms, Here use the parking lot for evacuated animals."

 

[zHellas]

Heh I'm in NC also (Wake Forest). Closing everything today was ridiculous. A delay maybe but even that would be to much. I'm originally from New Jersey where this little even would not even warrant a delay.

Hey, I'm in NC too!

Smaller town, though.

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

I go to College in PA, so we almost never close, lol. We did last year because of a back to back blizzard though.

High five for the blizzard of '09! I believe the record was that my school closed only once in it's entire history before that blizzard (Temple U. btw)

 

[Skuffyshootster]

It snowed a little over an inch here in Maryland, and we got out of school an hour early. The last Friday when we had maybe two inches there were cars stranded on the roads, and it took an hour to get home on a usually 10 minute bus ride.

 

[William Dickbringer]

We close when roadways are obstructed but we did close on about 2 inches and closed today on about 5 inches of snow really expecting less because we only have 3 (2 now) snow days to use

 

[Ajna]

I live in Vermont. In the hilly/mountainous parts, and we get lots of snow. If its below 4 feet, there's school.

This, but I live in Michigan.

 

[Jake the Snake]

Live in Minnesota. Or Minnesnowta rather. We get a shit load of snow up here, but do they cancel school? Nah, why would a blizzard that brought down 20 inches of the damn stuff be cause for worry? Sure, every school district around us closed, but not ours, no not ours, because our superintendent is. a. douche.

 

[Hashime]

Never happens here. We will cancel buses, but schools are always open.

 

[Urgh76]

When I saw the thread title, I immediately thought of porn.

OT: Our schools DON'T know when to close! They always try to stay open as much as possible

 

[(whitty name here)]

Im near Toronto Canada, last year, we didnt have a single snow day. Which sucks. This year, in the past 2 weeks, we've missed a total of 5 days of school.

Today was a snow day actually.