It’s -11* (actual) this morning, to go with the 5 or 6” of new snow. Roads snowpacked and/or icy.

Snow day for the schools?

We live in Wyoming

Hell, those conditions the road should be nice and taciy. 2wd would do just fine.

Twenty below here and a foot of snow a couple of days ago. Things are normal here.

Wussies!

Well, in the words of Sinclair Lewis- "Winter is not a season, it's an occupation."



Unless you live in the South

Teaches kids character.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Well, in the words of Sinclair Lewis- "Winter is not a season, it's an occupation."

I’ll have to ponder that one...
O-Kay-y, I’m trackin’

I don't remember even one "snow day" through 12 years of school growing up.

Those that made it made it and those who didn't didn't. Pretty simple formula back then.

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I don't remember even one "snow day" through 12 years of school growing up.

Those that made it made it and those who didn't didn't. Pretty simple formula back then.

You know, Gus, it really is a regional thing. We lived at 7,000’ on the Coconino Plateau in N AZ. Big winter storms occurred with some frequency. The schools in the area were pretty quick to cancel school there, and I recall one winter when our kids were off an entire week when school was cancelled.

Up here, like you describe.

We got just enough ice here to close everything. Watched a neighbor slowly creep out of his driveway just to keep sliding into the other neighbor’s yard.

Amazing how such a thin layer can be so difficult.

People who live in the South don't spend two hours a day shoveling snow.

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People who live in the South don't spend two hours a day shoveling snow.

I’ll remember this in August when it’s 95* with 88% humidity and not a breath of air down there

We walked to our grade school a mile away in January temps as low as -35. Once at the school, some of us were waiting on a teacher or someone to open up. This morning it was -15, sunny and no wind. Meh, just another Arctic blast to weed out the the whiners Last summer was a smoky hot SOB and we were praying for winter...

I left Jackson on Sunday about an hour late since they couldn't push the plane back from the gate due to all the snow. They could move it about 15 feet before it would stop. After about 3-4 running start attempts, I guess they brought out the shovels and dug it out. We never have that problem in Raleigh.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
People who live in the South don't spend two hours a day shoveling snow.

Builds character.
Or so I'm told.

About 2 inches of snow today with a thin coat of ice over it. My landlord, using his Case end loader with 24 foot blade and his Kubota with mounted snow blower have already come and gone.
28 degrees. Warm.
So.... Just another day in the Queen city of the lake!

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Originally posted by parabellum:
People who live in the South don't spend two hours a day shoveling snow.

I’ll remember this in August when it’s 95* with 88% humidity and not a breath of air down there

95* & 88%, might need a jacket for that.
Houston in August is more like 100* 100%

I expect it has to do with where (and to some extent, when) you grew up.

Central Lower Peninsula Michigan, 50's and 60's. SOP was for everyone to sit as far back in the bus as seats were available to put as much weight over the drive wheels as possible. Big ol scoop shovel behind the last row of seats for when that didn't work. A few big ol' corn-fed farm boys would usually make short work of digging out the bus and continuing on the route.

There were probably others, but the only "snow days" I remember was sometime around 1965 we had a "Christmas Blizzard" and Christmas vacation was extended a few days until things got dug out. On our road, that consisted of a Galion road grader pushing a V plow, itself being pushed by a dozer. Fun times.

I've mentioned before that I don't do heat and humidity. Not thrilled about 0° and 40 knots of wind either, but I deal with that better than triple digit temps and air so thick you can cut it with a knife.

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Originally posted by TMats:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
People who live in the South don't spend two hours a day shoveling snow.

I’ll remember this in August when it’s 95* with 88% humidity and not a breath of air down there

95* & 88%, might need a jacket for that.
Houston in August is more like 100* 100%

A Texan told me once a long time ago. “Ya ever get a chance to go to Houston. Pass it by.”

Probably unfair, but it sounded sincere and so far, I’ve taken the advice to heart.

Savannah is 105* and 120%. ya'll dont know heat. Its just snow, rest of us gotta work.

Right now it's 28 degrees, freezing rain, sleet and snow in OKC.

I don't mind the snow but freezing rain is dangerous.

I grew up in Detroit, Michigan. We did get some snow, but I don't recall ever having school canceled because of it. Of course, the city is flat as a pancake and they salted and plowed the streets pretty quickly. And in grade school we all walked there and back (1/2 mile or less--every square mile had a school in it). Those conditions don't exist today, of course.

flashguy