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

[Choppaduel]

I recorded the number of snow days in a year for my high-school, in Ontario, while I was attending and it averaged out to 3 days per year. This is hardly deleterious to the education system here, especially since it gives the teachers a break, or time to catch up or their work.

In the city were I went to there s good deal of snow, but not as much as other near towns, due the effect the lakes have.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

hahahaha, well I can tell you we certainly don't call the army in!!!! HAH!!


The roads have to be pretty bad for schools to be closed but sometimes the buses will be shut down but "walkers" (kids who walk to school) still go.

I actually quite miss those days when most of my class will be gone because of the buses being shut down

 

[Hashime]

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.

Really? In Waterloo neither high school or elementary schools have been closed to my knowledge.
The university never closes.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

In Ohio...you get school and business no matter what.

 

[tombman888]

It never snows n the Central Coast, so i dfon't have to worry about it.

 

[Hippobatman]

I live in Norway, and we don't close the schools for anything. Seriously.

I remember back in elementary school, we weren't allowed to be inside during recess, at all. It could be hailing, snowing thickly or rain could be flooding down. There was one exception to the rule; we could be inside the outer hallway if, and only if, the temperature was below -20 Celsius/-4 Fahrenheit.

That's how it is. The southern Norwegians are wimps, though. Couple of inches of snow, and everything's a chaos.

 

[nunqual]

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.

Me too!

Just north of Wake Forest, actually, in Louisburg. Small world.

 

[p3t3r]

pretty much for the past two weeks one or two of the country buss lines have been closed. one day three were so i skipped. it probably would have been a snow cay by now but apparently the parents were complain about them last year. last year we had two back to back snow days.

 

[dakorok]

I'm from a Chicago suburb, and our high school NEVER closed. We were the most masculine high school around, and we laughed at the other wussy schools closing because of 10 measly inches.

 

[Megacherv]

Here in Huddersfield there was quite a lot, so it seemed very safe to close. Then the thick ice came...we didn't close...it was fucking awful...

It snowed again today days after the ice had thawed, but it rained pretty heavily last night and just before it snowed, so it didn't settle, but pavements were a bit icy.

 

[Mike the Bard]

I live in Minnesota. for them to close the schools after one inch of snow to use is laughably stupid. takes piratically a foot of snow for that to happen. even then it's pretty questionable because the plows up here work pretty fast.

 

[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.

Hey, cool! (No pun intended) Prince William got snowed out, too.
The county site is acting up, so there's no way to tell about school tomorrow.
Good to know there's other Virginian escapists out here, too.

Wait, you're in Prince William? So am I! Don't suppose you go to Stonewall Jackson?

 

[ExaltedK9]

I live in west Texas, and wait for it..... we actually get a semi-fair amount of snow each winter. Blew your mind, didn't I?

The school system still overreacts to it from time-to-time though.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Eh, we recently got about two feet. The county shut down and declared a state of emergency.

Northwest Indiana, under the lake.

 

[Jane-Doe44]

I live in Australia. It never snows anywhere except at the Blue Mountains (that I know of). The places where it snows don't have schools so we don't have to worry about it.

 

[Denos]

I live in a small city in British Columbia Canada, i have never had a snow day, the only way we would get one would be if the snow made it impossible to leave our homes.

 

[Bsf013]

I live in Kodiak and we don't cancel for anything probably not even a manbearpig invasion

 

[binvjoh]

I live in Gothenburg, Sweden and nothing will shut down unless there's like a meter of snow outside. Which, during my lifetime, has only happened once.

 

[Rewdalf]

Arlington fuckin' County.
That's all you need to know.
Strict as hell, even when half the busses don't show up...
I had my dad come pick me up from school today, because as the snow was falling, we didn't get an early release announcement. Instead, at the end of the day, we were informed that the busses would arrive half an hour to an hour late, and we were to stay at school and wait for our route numbers to be called out before going outside.
I really don't want to board a bus tomorrow, and I know school will be open. Too bad I have no other way of getting there, so I guess I have no other choice...

 

[nofear220]

Today, December 17, we had less than an inch of solid snowfall. The school system shut down all schools in about 10 counties.

ಠ_ಠ Seriously?

I have had only one snow day in my life and there was over a meter. Have people heard of shovels down there? Snowpiles on the side of the road in Canada get over 10 feet tall...