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My sister has been in Alaska for close to 40 yrs. When her kids were in school just outside of Fairbanks, when the temps dropped below -20F they cancelled outdoor recess. Local customs vary.
In Southern MD, usually just the chance of snow is good enough for a delay. We had maybe an inch or so down here this morning, but only on the grass. Sidewalks and roads were totally clear, just wet. 2hr delay.
Lots of differences between here in NoVa and Michigan where I grew up. A school district in Michigan is community based, so they are better able to cancel or keep school open based on the conditions in that community. Here in NoVa, the school district is county based. This county has a fair amount of rural area that doesn't get the kind of snow removal attention as the more populated areas, so you have situations where the roads are completely clear and the sun is out, but school was canceled because there were icy conditions in a rural area of the county.
Oh? I'll see your school district and raise you the city proper of Portland, Oregon, where our kids have missed 10 - TEN - days of school this year. 2 of the cancellations were days that saw no snowfall at all; it was 'precautionary'.
I'm a few counties west of you (Shenandoah) and they closed schools here today. The problem here is similar to you last sentence: there are valleys here where there are only winding little roads going over the mountain ridges to some of the more remote places. In the towns it was fine. As Merc said, it's a no-win for the school system in places like this.Foosball God said:
Glad to see it's not just us.General Malaise said:
Yep. If someone even mentions the word "ice" it's a state emergency. (Alabama)
New Orleans metro, too.
In the twin cities it seems like I am seeing the 2 hour late scroll on TV more than in the past. When I went to school, I don't recall ever getting a snow day here, or even starting late. It sounds like it should be a rant about how the kids should toughen up, but now that I am driving in to work (instead of taking the metro transit every day), I thing we were all morons 30 years ago. Nothing they learn on any given day is worth driving on bad roads.
General Malaise said:
Similar here in New Orleans, except with flood "watches" instead of snow. And translate "driving on bad roads" to "driving on flooded roads, with risk of driving into temporarily obscured canals".
Nothing impressed me more about living in Minnesota, other than the people's amazing ability to avoid personal public confrontation, than their snow removal system. A snowfall that would have shut down my eastern PA city for several days was taken care of before I was even awake. Only snow day I had during college and law school there was due to it being -40.
