WOW!!,,, Local Public Schools Closed Today Because,,,,

[SweetMK]

I lived in Pittsburgh for school,,,
the TV stations would report Pittsburgh weather,,, BUT,,,
the TV would also report ERIE weather!!

Erie got lake effect snow,, until the lake froze over,,,
Pittsburgh would get 1/4",,, Erie would get 14",,,

Without fail, early EVERY winter,, Erie would get blasted,,, no school.

 

[Frank121]

Our daughter and granddaughter live in North Pole, Alaska. They close the schools when the temperatures hits -50 Fahrenheit. That's right, -50.

GS

We lived on Ft. Wainwright Army Base (next to Fairbanks, Alaska) from 1970-73 when my Dad was stationed there.

The military and public schools didn't close until it was at least -50 degrees F there also.

Was a beautiful and fun place to live as a young teenager:

*Boone's Farm Apple Wine and Strawberry Hill took just a few minutes to chill by putting it in a snow drift

*In summer it never got completely dark outside

*Really fast growing plants...and produce...during the long days of light in the summer

*Northern lights are amazing!

*Fly fishing with my Dad in pristine and clear streams and rivers

*Panning for and finding gold

*Teen Club on base made the best chocolate malts ever

*Lots of recreational activities for teenagers on the base during the winter

*Saw Dave Winfield play summer baseball up there in 1972 at the Midnight Sun baseball game. In fact, saw all the Midnight Sun baseball games while we were up there.

*"The state’s most famous baseball tradition is the Midnight Sun Game, played annually on the summer solstice in Fairbanks, home of the Alaska Goldpanners, the world’s northernmost baseball team. First pitch each year is at 10:30 p.m., more than two hours before official sundown; as the sub-Arctic sun ducks below the horizon, the game continues in dim twilight, without the aid of artificial illumination. By the late innings, the sky is bright enough to get wood on a fastball, but dark enough that your Little League umpire would have called it off."

*Dad was a career military First Sergeant who was very well respected and liked by his soldiers. Had to show my military ID to go to the movies and since my name and Dad's were the same they would ask me if I was "Top's" son. I would tell them yes and they, to a man, would comment about what a good soldier and leader he was.

*Only thing that came between my Dad and me was hair. Mine could't touch my ears or collar. That changed when I got older and moved to my own house at 20 and made up for lost time ;-)

*Learned to ride and care for a motorcycle

And too many other things to list.

 

[wingriderz]

Yeppers, teachers get another paid day off and then they'll complain about not getting paid enough just before the next school year starts.

No not a paid day off . Any days or days due to weather is made up by cutting either regular holiday days or made up at end of year. So rest assure your getting far more than your moneys worth from teachers. That are abused daily to the point of assualt . Like 1st responders very few complain.

 

[michael1952]

Chuck, it's not a paid day off. They will have to make that day up later in the year. But I bet a bunch of those students went hunting as soon as they found out. *s*

i think they can miss x number of days before they have to be made up here in NC


i know earlier this year they missed quite a few and for sure didnt make em all up

 

[michael1952]

only way i think it should be cancelled is if heat is out

the kiddies can wait inside for the bus

and teachers can start their cars up without going out with their remote starts

so maybe 30 seconds in the cold, MAYBE OMG, OH the Huge Manatee

give me a break

but im old school

 

[Muss Muggins]

Wait till our local TV weather goofball hears about this . . .

They dreamed up a new reason to close the public schools today,,,
The temperature was 31 degrees F.,,, wind gusts up to 20 MPH,,,

The wind chill was "SO SEVERE!!", that they closed school ALL DAY!!

We need to help these school systems,, they need new reasons to close for the day,

Has your local public school come up with any creative ideas for closing school??

Help me out, I will forward the new ideas,,,

 

[PPS1980]

ALL of Canada? Ever been to Seattle, WA? Not that far below the 49th parallel. Vancouver BC is basically in the Pacific Northwest and pretty mild in the winter; rarely goes (or stays) below 20ºF in that part of the world. They go into panic mode in Vancouver if there's more than an inch or two of snow, though.

Now these people know how to live with COLD:

Oymyakon, Russia: the coldest place on Earth

I read somewhere that they only close the school when it gets below -54.

Ah, but its windy! Remember that it wasn't the cold that got the OP's schools closed it was the wind chill. 20 degrees + 20mph winds......

 

[carpriver]

Back in the 1980s schools in my area of the U.P. closed
in the spring because of a freak thaw. The back roads were
flooded because of quick snow melt. Unsafe for buses.

I used to string for a newspaper back then. The small story I
wrote was headlined, "Schools Close: It's Too Warm."

Hasn't happened since.

I remember that thaw, our middle school flooded and the kids have to finish the school year in the high school. Our house was cut off as we were located between the east & west branches of the Escanaba river.

 

[BigBoy99]

Having grown up in Wisconsin, snow and winter were no problem. When we moved to NC, I discovered it was a totally different mind set concerning snow! At the time, I was teaching at a local community college. One morning I awoke to a quarter of an inch of snow on the ground. I got ready and drive to school, only to find the parking lot completely empty. I usually had to fight for a space in the lot. I turned on the radio to find out that all the schools in the area had been closed due to the "heavy" snow fall during the night.

 

[OMCHamlin]

They dreamed up a new reason to close the public schools today,,,
The temperature was 31 degrees F.,,, wind gusts up to 20 MPH,,,

The wind chill was "SO SEVERE!!", that they closed school ALL DAY!!

We need to help these school systems,, they need new reasons to close for the day,

Has your local public school come up with any creative ideas for closing school??

Help me out, I will forward the new ideas,,,

Over on the eastern shore, they close schools for "extremely rainy days" and... FOG! Yes, I have seen them close schools here for fog many times... It's like the pick a committee of the laziest teachers in Accomack county, and let them decide...
Accomack County Public Schools, some of VA's worst...

 

[Muss Muggins]

Over on the eastern shore, they close schools for "extremely rainy days" and... FOG! Yes, I have seen them close schools here for fog many times... It's like the pick a committee of the laziest teachers in Accomack county, and let them decide...
Accomack County Public Schools, some of VA's worst...

We get fog delays for some of the rural schools. They'll wait an hour or two before they start . . .

 

[stonehorses]

Let it snow......

SweetMK, If you are talking about Roanoke County Schools closing on Wednesday, it was more than likely due to the conditions on Bent Mountain. Up here we had a negative windchill factor until 10 am. Our winds were sustained at 20 mph+ and gusts exceeding 35 mph with just enough blowing snow to make the roads treacherous. It is my understanding that an entire school system may close if one area of the county is unable to run buses.
Our elevation is near 3000'. While in Roanoke, you are about 900'. The weather up here is not usually understood by Roanokers. Most that move up here, return to Roanoke the following spring.

 

[tedog]

Heck, we had to walk to 8 miles each way to school and back home in any weather. and it was uphill both ways!

Yet another reason I love this forum.

 

[johngalt]

Back when I lived in MD they cancelled school for just FORECASTING snow.

 

[SweetMK]

SweetMK, If you are talking about Roanoke County Schools closing on Wednesday, it was more than likely due to the conditions on Bent Mountain. Up here we had a negative windchill factor until 10 am. Our winds were sustained at 20 mph+ and gusts exceeding 35 mph with just enough blowing snow to make the roads treacherous.

I live north of Roanoke, in Botetourt,,
the Botetourt school system has a certain number of snow days factored in.
Last year, the teachers missed some of those days,
if they miss taking them, they just "go away",,,

I am sure the Botetourt closing was an attempt to get one of the "factored in" days.

 

[vytoland]

They dreamed up a new reason to close the public schools today,,,
The temperature was 31 degrees F.,,,

around here..31 degrees is a fairly mild day.......we dont start to think about school closings or frozen water pipes until it gets close to ZERO.....

 

[Mack_C85]

Over on the eastern shore, they close schools for "extremely rainy days" and... FOG! Yes, I have seen them close schools here for fog many times... It's like the pick a committee of the laziest teachers in Accomack county, and let them decide...
Accomack County Public Schools, some of VA's worst...

Yes, but the trend of delays/closings for FOG started after a Fatal Bus Accident in Easton a few years back.

 

[oneounceload]

I can't believe the numbers and types of reasons they have to close down school. Every other Wednesday is a 'late in' day, where the kids don't have to get to school about an hour later than normal. They have in school detention because after school would be dangerous for the kids to to home an hour after school. I scoff at the amount of homework my son has had to do over the years. I think he's never done more in a month that I did any night plus weekends. (He graduates H.S. in a couple of weeks) Our teachers gave us homework like we only had to do homework for their one class.

It took a LOT to close down schools, but I remember that something that was almost guaranteed were 'ice' days where ice would form on the bridges if nowhere else. We had NO preparation, sand, salt, trucks to deliver the stuff back in the 60's. It's a little better now. And of course people around here would drive faster when it was icy to get home and off the road quicker.

At least the ice would fill in all those potholes that SC roads are famous for......

 

[stonehorses]

I live north of Roanoke, in Botetourt,,
the Botetourt school system has a certain number of snow days factored in.
Last year, the teachers missed some of those days,
if they miss taking them, they just "go away",,,

I am sure the Botetourt closing was an attempt to get one of the "factored in" days.

Wow, they lose their snow days? Our school system gives ours back at the end of the year. If we use more snow days than allotted, we lose spring break and may have to add days on to the end of the year.

 

[kraynky]

Today's yoots can't be burdened down with COATS! That's a huge responsibility and all! I mean having to keep up with a coat, AND possiblby gloves and hat ALL DAY! You're just asking too much.