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Jan. 28th, 2019 10:51 pmWe got the school cancellation calls and emails yesterday around 5 p.m. I'm almost certain that the school district officials were looking at the forecast and realizing that they'd pretty certainly have to send everyone home early.
I can't judge how the roads actually were since we didn't drive anywhere. Cordelia and I stayed inside while Scott cleared the walks. He's been trying to do parts of our neighbors' walks, too, (The snowblower is on an extension cord that only goes so far. It's less ridiculous for a snowblower than it is for a mech.) because they're both ladies in their 70s who live alone.
Scott said that the snow wasn't slushy and that there wasn't ice. I think that half of the concern about the weather was that it was going to be all day snow but with a high of 33F, just enough for melting and refreezing. We got a lot of snow, and it came down all day, but it seems not to have been wet.
I have trouble understanding some school closing choices because I don't drive, but I think that I also sometimes wonder about them because I went to middle school and high school on the western side of the state. We got lake effect snow. It took about 10 inches for them to consider closing the schools. The buses had to be able to manage roads that hadn't been plowed because a lot of the areas they serviced didn't ever get plowed. We had a lot of farm kids.
I can't judge how the roads actually were since we didn't drive anywhere. Cordelia and I stayed inside while Scott cleared the walks. He's been trying to do parts of our neighbors' walks, too, (The snowblower is on an extension cord that only goes so far. It's less ridiculous for a snowblower than it is for a mech.) because they're both ladies in their 70s who live alone.
Scott said that the snow wasn't slushy and that there wasn't ice. I think that half of the concern about the weather was that it was going to be all day snow but with a high of 33F, just enough for melting and refreezing. We got a lot of snow, and it came down all day, but it seems not to have been wet.
I have trouble understanding some school closing choices because I don't drive, but I think that I also sometimes wonder about them because I went to middle school and high school on the western side of the state. We got lake effect snow. It took about 10 inches for them to consider closing the schools. The buses had to be able to manage roads that hadn't been plowed because a lot of the areas they serviced didn't ever get plowed. We had a lot of farm kids.
