Snow Day

Just in case you ever wondered how much snow it takes to close school in this neck of the woods, the answer is:

not much.

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8 Comments

  1. Ms Mac
    Posted February 1, 2007 at 2:23 PM | Permalink

    Huh. My boys go to school come 6 inches or 6 feet of snow. Nothing stops for snow in Swizterland.

    I’m assuming snow is not a new phenomenon in your part of the woods so I don’t understand why American schools are not equipped for snow. It happens every year, people!

    Just another confused foreigner! ;-)

  2. Lisa
    Posted February 1, 2007 at 3:55 PM | Permalink

    That’s it??? It appears your road is even clear! In the 8 years we’ve lived here, the kids have only had one snow day…and that was actually due to the electricity being out (from the storm I guess).

  3. annie
    Posted February 1, 2007 at 4:38 PM | Permalink

    We’re expecting a couple inches overnight. I’m not going to even bother setting my alarm clock- it’s a guarantee that we’ll at least have a delayed opening!

  4. Bluegrass Mama
    Posted February 1, 2007 at 5:49 PM | Permalink

    Ms. Mac, We don’t get a whole lot of snow here, and it’s not worth having enough equipment to get all the county roads cleared. Still, I think today they cleared themselves pretty well!

    Lisa, Ours certainly was. Perhaps some of the back country roads were still snow covered, but I stayed off of them.

    Annie, I think a delayed opening would have been enough here. Funny how they don’t ask me!

  5. Thumper
    Posted February 1, 2007 at 7:45 PM | Permalink

    That would be enough to close schools here, I think. But North Dakotans would be laughing…when we lived there school wasn’t cancled unless there were blizzard conditions.

  6. Bluegrass Mama
    Posted February 1, 2007 at 9:01 PM | Permalink

    Thumper, Oh, I know! I grew up in upstate New York. We didn’t even check for school closings if there was less than 8″.

  7. Katherine
    Posted February 2, 2007 at 11:11 AM | Permalink

    Ms Mac: Since Switzerland is very densely populated, I imagine most Swiss children don’t have to travel very far to get to school. That’s often not the case in the US. Especially in areas that have serious snowfall (which the Bluegrass Estate does not), the risk of school buses getting stranded in the snow is very real.

  8. Bluegrass Mama
    Posted February 2, 2007 at 11:20 AM | Permalink

    Katherine: True in general, but not here yesterday. The general consensus is that the district jumped the gun and should have had school. Today we had more snow, but they decided on a 2-hour delay, which put the kids on the road at the peak of the snowfall. Ah,winter!