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The chart for my school is missing the “Big snowstorm predicted, classes canceled the night before.”
I don’t think I’ve ever had classes cancelled if there was only 5″ of snow predicted. No, 10+, with blowing and drifting, maybe then.
Ya since when is 5 inches of snow a lot? 2 ft, plus a whiteout, and if the buses can’t get through… then school is sometimes cancelled.
where do you ppl live?
Welcome to Virginia!
Or maybe New York. When I was a kid (years and years and years ago) we didn’t learn that buses were cancelled until the morning of, and they were only cancelled if the ploughs hadn’t gone through. It took a LOT for the school day to be cancelled because about half the school population lived right in the town where I went to school. Only those of us living out in the countryside and having to dig ourselves out of three feet of snow got “snow days” on any sort of regular basis.
Alas, it has been a while since I’ve seen sufficient snowfall to warrant cancelling buses or classes. Five inches is nothing, you can’t even snowshoe properly in it
“Snow days”? I live in sweden and ive never had a “snow day” in my life. In sweden schools only close down if the roof is about to fall in due to snow-weight(In wich case they move the lectures to some other building the next day).
That storm was the first real snow in years, even though the most was what, 6 inches? Well it sure was here in Williamsburg, so every school was canceled.
So true. This is EXACTLY the way it is here in Virginia. But I live in a large county, and I mean LARGE. Anyway, because I live in such a large area, it takes about 3 inches of snow predicted, yeah, PREDICTED, to get a day off. Anything from 1″ to 2″ is a 2-hour delay, and anything 1″ to 0″ is no delay. But this winter, we got about a total of TWO WEEKS of snow days. And there was over two feet of snow where I was. That was much more than predicted. But yes, they did cancel school the night before. At about 9:30 PM.
Perhaps you’ve never lived any place where it almost never snows. Our primary snow removal method is ‘plow the main streets and hope the rest melts.’
Dead right! The main roads get plowed (heavy traffic) in Virginia, but the neighborhoods and mack roads get plowed once before the ice freezes. But then again, we went an entire year without having suitable snow-day snow.
Exactly! Five inches ain’t even something we notice up here. I drive 25 miles to work one way in northern Minnesota and I only miss work if the drift over the township road hasn’t been punched through yet by the helpful neighbor with the 4-wheel drive pickup. Once he gets up on the highway, my Lumina van chugs itself on through, no problem. Once this winter I waited until light before I took off because in the dark the visibility was zero but in the daylight it was at least 100 feet so I was good to go!
in soviet russia,school cancel snow
If it don’t impress a girl, it’s not worth calling a snow day for.
5 inches of snow causes “snow day”? Where do you live? Sissylvania? Overreactionistan? Here (Gothenburg, Sweden) we have had the worst blizzard since 1964 but not a canceled class in sight. A massive clusterf*ck in public transportation yes, but no snow day.
Too bad they bought Italian trams not built for the climate…
I dont think we have administartors at schools here in New Zealand. We have administrators instead. They never make mistakes, they are like Chuck Norris.
^^ LMAO that is funny. But it snowed once about half an inch here in Phoenix. Everything was cancelled. Try living in a place where the nearest snow truck is 300 miles away people.
for 1/2 an inch you don’t need snow plows. You need sandals, perhaps, but not snow plows. Snow plows come in at 1 foot of snow, maybe. When sandals won’t do anymore…
Minnesota never closes school in the metro area. Ever.
It does in the country area though.
haha. not really. I think Cook might, on occasion. but only if its REALLLY impossible. like, a foot, still snowing, zero visability, and a wind chill of at least -30. More likely is a 2 hour late start. Just enough time to let the major roads get mostly cleared.
Where do you live that 5 inches is enough to close the schools? I live in the snowbelt – we don’t cancel school until it gets taller than the average middle schooler.
I live in North Texas, where 2 inches of snow is a national emergency. We had 112 accidents on a day when we had 11 inches of snow (this christmas) in my county alone, because people who don’t know how to drive in snow did it anyway. 5 inches of snow scares the living crap out of some people.
Hey, I saw that episode of king of the hill!
Yes yes, I lived in Plano for 17 years so I know exactly where you’re coming from. And usually the “snow” is all melted by noon anyway.
Uhhh 2 inches of snow in North Texas is not an national emergency. I just moved to Frisco 6 months ago and learned real fast that it’s not like Austin and I still have to go to work despite the snow. Now ice is a different story….
Someone’s had one too many mistaken snow days if they misspell “administrators” twice.
I really should proof read stuff that I copy/paste.
OR they could be like my school system and wait until AFTER all the high schoolers are already in schools, and decide to hold for the entire day even though middle/elementary schools got the day off. AND they were letting parents pick their kids up, but if you drove you couldn;t just leave, so 1/2 the school left even thought it would have been safer to stay. those of us who stayed couldn;t get anything done because 1/2 the students were gone.
And to the people calling us wusses for canceling for 5 inches of snow…
around here we’re lucky if we get ONE inch the entire season.
I can honestly say that this is something that I’ve never had to deal with, we’re well out of the snow zone. I can remember one slush storm, where it was just slightly too warm for the hailstones to come down solid-very odd. On the other hand, folks around here regularly forget how to drive in the rain, or fog–every year same issues.
5″ can actually be pretty bad out where I live. Most of the roads around here are narrow, full of twists and turns and have lots of hills, with ravines and cliffs on both sides. And there’s no shoulders and no shoulder barriers to keep you from sliding off the road and going down a 60ft incline. School usually gets canceled around 6am, which would be when the buses start to head out.
My school is in a loop between big snowstorm; classes not cancelled, and 5+ inches. They never learn D=.
depends. where i live now, we can have seven feet of snow and i will still have to go to math. in California, however, there was three inches, and school was canceled. since wimpyville doesnt get snow very often, the roads are oily and therefore incredibly slippery. plus, pansytown has inexperienced drivers. :/
Funny, but “administrators” is spelled wrong.
Hahahaha 5 inches, big deal. Bunch of wimps.
Wussy… 5 inches… wow big deal * laugh *
5 inches is kind of a lot here… I live in Kentucky. This year we had almost 20 inches over a week’s time. So… it’s kind of a big deal to us. You all must be from way North or something, like my fiance who is from Alaska and keeps making fun of us “Southerners” who think 30 degrees F is cold (even though this is Northern Kentucky, about 30 mins from Ohio).
Where is it that 5 inches would cancel school??
Five inches of snow? Who cancels school for five inches of snow? That’s nothing. If we canceled school for five inches of snow there would be no school from Thanksgiving to Easter!
5″?!?! We don’t close up here until we get a 2′ minimum!
How did you make a cycle?
It’s just text and rotated arrows in the equation builder.
I live in MA, USA, and the way it works here is 3-5 is 2 hour delay, and more than 5 is no school. And yes we do get a lot of snow days and delays as a result… and who’s complaining? Not me…
That above “rule of thumb” applies to High School and younger… colleges are on their own and rarely cancel. I’m hoping for a snow day tomorow, since it’s my bday!
same here! i have the good fortune to go to a school where there was a day they didnt cancel and they should have a couple of years ago and someone got hurt– since then they’ve been cancel-happy. i’m not complaining. well, except for the longer school year i suppose
I lived in Texas for 17 years, and they’d cancel class if there was like 1″ on the GRASS. (We are not even talking slick roads, people.) Then again, this “snow” was so rare that this rarely happened. I now live in Ohio and there’s rarely a snow day at university level anyway. (Grade schools are another story)
ITT: retarded people who cannot grasp that city preparedness for snow is varied due to a variety of important factors, mainly snow.
Shut up about all your goddamn snow.
Ok, seriously, where do they cancel class for 5 inches of snow? California?
Ok, maybe that’s a Canadian thing to say but nobody cares about 5 inches up here.
Snow day at 5″? Apparently this chart was written by a Smurf. The only people who can justify canceling school at 5″ are the folk who are only 6″ tall. Or cowardly Yankees.
That’s true. Southerners cancel school for 1/2″ of snow.
I’m in Missouri. We rarely get out for snow, but ice will do the trick.
*dies* I’d have to go to school in the summer instead! I remember a time we got 6 ft over the course of a few days and nothing closed. The gaph is true… at least my school would do that… the “big snowstorm” part would just be like 3ft of snow+70mph winds+ subzero temps. That goes for the city too. XD
Wait, 5 inches is a lot of snow? No way would ANYONE cancel ANYTHING (where I grew up) for a measely five inches. Twenty inches, maybe. Glare ice and ice storm, maybe. Five inches? Heck, you don’t even need to dig out your driveway first. Just drive over it. Even if the snowplow has already been by on the street, it’s not going to be much of a hump.
We did miss one day of school when we got a full two feet of heavy wet snow overnight though. That was awesome.
Well, they “learned”
15 inches of snow in boulder, CO last week……two hour delay
five inches? psh, we have to get a couple feet before my school even considers it…and only if it’s 50 below and high winds. Seriously.
I live in the Lake Effect Snow area of Indiana. I’ve had days where I had to go to class, yet we had 32″ of heavy, wet snow fall in less than 24 hours. 5 inches would never cancel a class here!
Unless you’re Canadian. In which case, school never gets cancelled because of snow.
I live in England, where the slightest sprinkling of snow is a threat to humanity! We have snow days even if it melts as soon as it hits the ground, because we all know a bit of water doesn’t follow health and safety regulations.