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It's barely snowing (think 1/8"), and all the local universities and school districts are closed for the day. Great vacation after 1 hard day back at school yesterday. :p
So what does it take to close the schools and/or your job down in your area of the country?
Apparently at my new job, it takes an act of god to close the place down. :(
My schools would never close. Never in high school, the super intendant would drive a tank to school. Never in college, since in Syracuse it's normal to have 4 1/2 feet of snow with the temperature being -5 degrees, feels like -25 degrees. Now that I'm working, never, even if we get 2 feet of snow the night before and it takes 4 hours to get to work, it will never be closed.
Gotta love living in regions that always get tons of snow!
Same thing here. Just substitute in Lake Erie and Edinboro University for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brand X
Every school in Houston is closed due to "icy conditions."
Every school except Rice. :|
My job can't close. Someone always has to feed/clean up after the dogs.
When I was in school they usually closed if we got a lot of snow or if it was real icy and since I went to a private school for most of HS that relied upon public school transportation we got off if there was a delay. When I went to public school it was usually just delayed but closed every now and then.
My last job wouldn't close unless there was a state of emergency declared (a lot of fucking snow). It hasn't snowed once this year, just some flurries.
Now that I think about it, my last job only closed for the duration of the actual hurricanes in Florida. As soon as the storms were over, we were back on the road delivering meds. At those times we classified as emergency workers, so it was kind of neat getting access to areas you normally wouldn't get to see.
Nukes could go off and my job wouldn't close.
In high school, we had no public school busses during the winter due to some contract BS. In january a year or two ago, it was under 10 degrees, the roads were iced (bad city budget, we hardly ever get salt) and a good five inches on the ground. They didn't call school off. Every surrounding school district would be close except ours. So we had all these cars trying to cram into the two drop-off locations at the school and there were accidents all over the place because of the ice.
It was lame.
I'm told that this university doesn't close for snow, ever. Haven't even seen any damn snow this year anyway, so it doesn't really matter.
Notre Dame never closes. One time we had a three day ice storm and the whole town lost power, including my off campus apt. The school has its own power plant, snow removal, etc. So they didn't close.
My current job won't close for weather because it's in cali so that's never a prob. They don't even close for second tier holidays (no MLK holiday). We do have a crisis # on our badges most likely for earthquakes but that hasn't happened yet. My job sucks :(
Apple closed yesterday because of really bad ice, but decided to stay open today...even though the ice is far worse. Nice!
My university closes if there's no water (for the bathrooms) or if the lights go out. I had that happen last semester. I had 6 hours off between classes, went home, went back to give my last evening class only to find it was cancelled because there was no electricity.
Snow removal in MD is pretty shitty, so back in the day we got a decent number of school closings. We had one really nasty ice storm in IIRC 93 that shut down the whole state pretty much for almost a week and a half. I don't even think it's gonna snow in MD this year except for a few flurries. We've had some extremely unusual warm weather here on the east coast.
If you want days off for nothing go work in the public sector.
Believe this shit. You could ice skate down the sidewalks, and I walked across the magothy river. Shit was incredible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mykozo
I'd have to go to ground zero and cover it. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
I did this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chux
I remember this storm, too bad Virginia got shit- We did get out of school for one or two days though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chux
The area of Virginia I'm from sucks shit for snow since it's surrounded by warmish water. It would snow balls on the other side of the river and we would get rain, it sucked ass. But on the bright side, if it snowed hardly at all schools would shut down because I think the city of Chesapeake has maybe three snow plows. Once in, I want to say 2000/2001 maybe it snowed a shit load and then freezing rain on top of that, then more snow. So it was a few inches of snow on top of six inches of ice. The neighborhood streets were covered for over a week, it was amazing.
As for college, classes will close if we get a couple inches of snow-it's more than it took at home because I'm further west and it gets cold as balls in the valley, but we have good years and bad. Last year it snowed a ton during exam week and I didn't have to take my French final, it was like a gift from God. But this year so far we haven't had anything besides a dusting last week. Here's hoping.
If we have a power out, stuff gets closed.
yeah, CA is useless in any sort of anything.
My highschool never got shut down, not once for the 4 years I attended it and it wasn't for lack of reason either. I remember days where me and Spent would hike through thick snowfall, blizzards and freezing rain to get to school because that fucker never ever closed its doors. Sometimes the teacher couldn't even make it in and class still went ahead as scheduled.
How the fuck is TX getting snow but CT is not?
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/1...onesheezh3.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Survival Kid
these fucking idiots in texas, the weather guy exaggerates as usual and everyone panics, calls out from work (so i have to pick up their slack) and the number of car crashes double (I'd be willing to bet the increase in crashes aren't even due to icy roads, but from idiots thinking that they're driving on icy roads. I saw a guy doing 40 mph on HWY 59. Speed limits 65. Motherfucker)
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Originally Posted by Josh
Finally snowed today, actually.
I went about 30-40 in a 60. Saw 2 wrecks in the matter of a day all involving people going 60 or above. I dunno if Houston was as bad as Austin, but I think it's smart to go well below the speed limit when there's an inch of ice on the roads, especially since us Southerners don't have proper tires to deal with this shit.
It's pretty retarded to rag on someone for being cautious. They know how comfortable they are driving in certain conditions at certain speeds. Everyone else can fuck off.
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Originally Posted by Andrew
In my experiences, whenever I get stuck behind somebody driving overly slow they generally show that they are dangerous due to not being able to stay in their lane, making ill-advised and unecassary lane changes, etc. People that can't drive just can't fucking drive and should be forced to submit themselves for sterilization. Traffic in this area is extremely bad at times and a large majority of it is due to people who just don't seem to get the clue about driving.
Here in Southern California, my college closed because it was "too windy." Seriously...it wasnt a hurricanne or anything...it was just windy. Also, everybody who lives in CA is a really shitty driver (except me of course), and they can't even drive when its raining...so everything closes when it snows once every twelve years :)
How is them going any faster going to prevent them from sliding around? I don't like slow drivers. I have a lot of experience driving in snow and realize that lead distance when driving in winter is the #1 way to avoid accidents above all else but if someone is driving slow in icy or snowy conditions I'm not going to bitch about it because I understand that driving slower in icy and snowy conditions is probably a good idea. Especially for someone who, as you have said, isn't able to stay in their lane.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gohron
650 ice related incidents this past Monday in Toronto. I couldn't believe that number.
The only time my school has closed down in the past 25 or so years was back in 2003 when we had all those crazy wildfires in San Diego County. The sky was red and black for nearly a week, and the air quality was so bad that two local community colleges and several grade/middle/high schools were closed for that duration.
It takes about three feet of snow. That is what it took to shut everything down in Denver last December. Things are still fucked up here from that storm.
It snowed for 30 minutes today.
I want Maryland to be encased in a icy tomb of death.
The school system here is usually pretty good about closing when it needs to. It doesn't take much, but the it snows so rarely here (we might get one good snow a year) that it's not a big deal. The thing is we have two parts to the school system-the city schools and the rural schools. The city schools are easy to get to no matter what as the roads are all well salted by the time the kids need to go. The roads in the rural areas don't get salted at all most of the time.
Naturally, the district office is in the middle of a salted area. Last year, we didn't get snow but there was freezing rain everywhere. It wasn't so bad that school needed to be cancelled, right? Tell that to the 17 year old who has never driven in the snow/ice before hitting an ice patch on a curvy country backroad. She was DOA at the scene.
Where I live in South Jersey ... I would agree with Dole ...
A fucking nuke could go off and school would still be in session.
I remember still going to school with a Blizzard going on ... 1983. They then called half a day, due to the Governor(Kean) declaring a state of emergency ... fucking DUH! When he declared it at noon, the school was letting out in an hour anyway. Fucking gayest thing ever.
BUT THEY CLOSED SCHOOL FOR THE CHALLENGER DISASTER. But for fucking 1 feet of snow ... oh stay open.
Not saying it was petty, I was sad and understood it.
So you're one of those idiots... I never would have guessed.Quote:
Originally Posted by station82o
Yeah during an ice storm I would reduce speeds. But people that never driven in snow or ice its like they over exaggerate and drive super cautious and PaInIc ... OMFG ... GET THE BREAD, MILK AND EGGS!!! WE NEED TO MAKE FRENCH TOAST ... STAT!!!!
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Originally Posted by portnoyd
Same here, and even if they close, we are expected to do work at home.
It snowed maybe three inches yesterday and my school opened two hours late, but, on the bright side, my teacher lives out in the boonies and can't get here so no class for me today. *goes back to sleep*
In high school I remember it took about 6-8 inches before it closed, though it seems this year they've been closing with just 4.
So far college hasn't had to close, but it hasnt gone above 4 inches.
It snowed, like, 2 inches maximum last night. I saw nine accidents on my way back from Baltimore including one seven car pile up. Then the guy driving me got into two accidents. Two.
Maryland can not handle snow.
Virginia was just as bad, in the 2 inches we got last night I know a girl who claimed to have seen seven accidents along the main drag of my town. Fucking Christ.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
So you got your license suspended for that other incident?Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
Nah. I just didn't feel like driving.