Wait for it... wait for it... wait for it..... CLOSE EVERYTHING!!!

[Hallow'sEve]

North Carolinian here as well

CMS was fucking awful when it came to snow (or anything), I pity all who suffer under their rule in the school system.

 

[Voodoomancer]

...
Today, December 17, we had less than an inch of solid snowfall. The school system shut down all schools in about 10 counties...

I laughed.

But that's just because I live in Iceland.

 

[WOPR]

Hello dear Escapist, a little background information 1st. Live in the southern united states, just north enough to get snow/sleet, but just south enough for the shcool board to *Pun not intended* freeze up when it does finally hit. Today, December 17, we had less than an inch of solid snowfall. The school system shut down all schools in about 10 counties.

So here is the question, my friends, how do those in positions of authority near you react to snow? Do you live in an area where you never recieve it and dont have to worry about it? Do you live where snow is a constant, something that simply becomes part of the norm? Do you live where any amount of snow causes almost complete sociotal breakdown? Share with us your tales of intrest!

EDIT: Huh, didn't know there were so many N.C. member around here.

I live on the coast; I've never seen snow... only fog

 

[General Vagueness]

Around here snow is a proverbial four-letter word (as opposed to just literal), it's like an annoying friend or relative that you know will never leave you alone for long and you've learned to deal with their special brand of insanity, so only when someone gets hurt do you do anything that you haven't done 100 times before, each as begrudging as the last and the next. Fortunately I'm still able to see the fun potential in snow, and there are few vistas more beautiful to me than a landscape covered in a blanket of snow.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

Apparently Britain is about to get eight inches of snow over the weekend. Right now it's a balmy five degrees for most of England. There had better be a fucking blizzard in the next two days to justify my having to buy a train ticket to get home.

About to get? It's been snowing all day, we've already got it!

OT: Unless there's ice and it's getting dangerous, most places stay open. Schools like to shut down more than most though.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

No Snow on the California coast, just rain

 

[ScarlettRage]

i live in southern ontario in canada... yeah we are not fond of the snow we have got here....
we have quite a bit, probably a foot or more....

 

[ColorfulObscurity]

We're pretty calm about snow where I live. It's usually "Oh hey. A good amount of snow is on the ground. That can cause problems. Better close the school."
But that doesn't mean that we won't freak out sometimes.
Last year, there was a giant blizzard that was supposed to hit us so they released school early because of it. It never ended up snowing.
We like to call it 'Snowless Snowday Wednesday'.

 

[shotgunbob]

I live in Denver and its barely snowed this year

The blizzards of 07 and 03 were terrible though

 

[Tartarga]

One of the schools in my district seems to close if someone even so much as stubs their toe. My school however only closes if the roads are deemed bad enough by our Superintendent who I swear to god is trying to kill us, almost slid into a ditch at least five times on the way to school today. I live in southern Ohio by the way and it snow way more than you would expect here.

 

[Mr Fixit]

Northeast Tennessee for me, a mile from the Virginia state line. Not only do the schools around here close for an inch of snow, but the ENTIRE TOWN i live in closes down, me i like driving in the snow, but i am a bit insane.

 

[EHKOS]

MI but the district around here sucks. They hardly ever call off school and when they do it's on the first snowfall so when you really need one they are all used up and you have to go anyways.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Texas and its citizens kinda like to panic when we see white stuff falling from the sky that isn't sand. Less than half an inch, our great thirsty soil just gobbles it up. Half an inch to an inch, where it actually starts sticking to the ground, and schools close, people drive just as crazy as normal while being slightly more twitchy, and kids are out making snow penises. Anything more than a couple inches, and it's like the whole damn place pretty much goes into lockdown. It's absurd, but amusing.

It did snow on Easter one year, that was pretty cool.

 

[CalabusDabus]

Generaly the schools around here only close if the salt trucks can't get out to clear the roads, or didn't presalt a bad snowfall.

(I live in a county with only 2,000 people in it in southern indiana.)

What county is that? I'm in southern Indiana at the moment, Evansville, USI Campus.

Where I lived a bit north of south, near Bedford, we had school closings at least once or twice a year because of snow, and many, many delays.

I live in Union, the schools around here get delays all the time, but they rarely ever cancel.

 

[Slavik_91]

I has tropical country, we not know snow.

 

[Rofl-Mayo]

I live in Alberta (Canada) so school doesn't get a snow day called unless it is -40 or -50 with wind chill. It sucks waiting for buses in that cold.

On a side note we got a really terrible blizzard two days ago and 50 crashes in 3km radius. You couldn't even see 5 feet in front of you. And still no snow day called.

 

[Mechsoap]

Denmark, they wont close public schools for nothing at all.

 

[revolutionaification]

Glasow, Scotland here. We've had heavy snow for the past couple weeks with it finally stopping just a few days ago. It's meant to start again tomorrow though.

Generally, we don't have snow that settles and if we do then it's rare for schools to close unless it's really bad. Even rarer for them to close in advance and not just send pupils home early. But I guess that's what two to three feet of snow does to the school board.

 

[hawkeye52]

i live in england and its quite funny since the media has a field day proclaiming it to be the worse snow since X and then all public transport just shuts down. i heard in germany the attitude is just generally screw it and just does what every other european country does and simply ploughs through it and keeps everything going smoothly

 

[Th37thTrump3t]

Northeast Ohio... 'nuff said.