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

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TheLaofKazi

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I live in Michigan, and we get heavy snow and ice all of the time, and our city is facing financial problems, so they aren't salting the roads anymore, resulting in more accidents.

My school is absolutely terrible with snow days. Just this Monday, there was snow, ice and coldness to the point where 90% of the schools in our area closed. Ours, being the "better" school that "doesn't let some snow get in the way of education," remained open. Almost 25% of the school was absent because the horrible weather conditions made it too unsafe for people who had to walk or drive long a distance. There were even many teachers that weren't there, and many of them that were there said we should have had a snow day.

So, most of my classes either involved sitting around and doing nothing, reviewing stuff, or doing substitute teacher busy work. Such a productive, educational day, right?
 

Legion IV

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I live in the middle of canada. -30 is normal. THE ONLY TIME i ever remember the school closing was because the storm was so bad you could not see a foot infront of you.
 

Mr.Napier

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Im 6ft4in the snow is up to my knees and we still have classes so to hell with this I'm moving to Reno.
 

Jewrean

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Australia.

No snow here. It's currently Christmas and Summer, beer-drinking weather. The only snow in my country is on the highest mountains. There has never been snow here in my town.
 

telkesh

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Irridium said:
I live in Vermont. In the hilly/mountainous parts, and we get lots of snow. If its below 4 feet, there's school.
Hey! I'm moving to Vermont in like a month. If there isn't 4 feet of snow I will be disappointed.

To answer the original question: If there was even one single snowflake falling here out authorities would go insane. I live in North Queensland, in Australia and the only time I have ever seen snow was the one time I visited Washington.
 

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deadman91 said:
It doesn't snow here (Sydney, Australia). We've just spent the past Winter bitching about how cold the 18*C average was. Yeah, don't judge us.
Lucky you.
Down here in Melbourne, we get to about 13 degrees in Winter.
2 blankets and a doona/duvet with an electric blanket does wonders.

If it snowed down here, I think EVERYTHING (shops, movies, schools) would shut for the day, and we'd have snowball fights.
 

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I live in Oregon, basically we only get snow once every couple years (we've got plenty of precipitation, but not enough of a cold front to get snow) so basically when it snows, the entire city of Portland shuts down and people abandon their cars on the side of the road. It?s pretty hilarious, especially if you live by a hill and people fail to get their cars up. Although once every five years or so we get a massive ice storm which basically shuts the city down for a week.
 

thingymuwatsit

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I live in one of the strangest spots of weather in Australia, if we ever get snow it clears into a sunny day two hours later.
 
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telkesh said:
Irridium said:
I live in Vermont. In the hilly/mountainous parts, and we get lots of snow. If its below 4 feet, there's school.
Hey! I'm moving to Vermont in like a month. If there isn't 4 feet of snow I will be disappointed.

To answer the original question: If there was even one single snowflake falling here out authorities would go insane. I live in North Queensland, in Australia and the only time I have ever seen snow was the one time I visited Washington.
Its actually been pretty light so far. Which is odd.

Although it'll probably pick up in the coming months. Nature's like that. Completely calm one day, then batshit insane the next.
 

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Hooray for the Great Lakes. We used to have school even with a foot dumping the previous night. Now that I'm farther south at college, I like to laugh when 4 inches closes the university.
 

sailor_960

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I am currently going to school in Rochester, New York and we use tunnels. U of R kinda rocks like that.
 

Merkavar

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i think they would think they were going insane or it was the end of the world. closest thing to snow i get here is a millimeter of frost on car windows.
 

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I live in fragging Canada! The snow has already piled up to a meter and a half across my entire school track and field. Hell, even if the power went out we would still be called into school.
 

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silver wolf009 said:
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!
Canada: HAHAHAHAHHAHA YOU PUSSIES!

No really. We laugh at all of you. We laugh at each other if someone dares complain.
 

FortheLegion

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I normally live in New Hampshire. There has to be a blizzard going on to shut the schools down and even then we sometimes end up going anyways.
 

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silver wolf009 said:
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!
In the case of school closure, it's not snow that gets them. Snow is nothing--they laugh in the face of mere snow. It's ice they're worried about. My local school system closed down today, and they barely got a sprinkling of snow. It was the thin, but very thorough, layer of freezing rain that did them in. It made all the roads so slick it was unsafe. THAT, my friend, is what closes schools.

It doesn't matter if it snows an inch or a foot--the determining factor is how bad the roads get, not the quantity of snow that falls. I remember once during jr. high it snowed close to 2 feet, but none of it stuck to the roads so we still had school. And then there are days like today, where there is virtually no snow but everything is slicker than snot on a doorknob.
 

silentrob77

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I live in Ontario, we don't care.
Unless your car is surrounded by at least 4 feet of snow you're going to school / work.
I remember when I was a kid we went through 3 broken down buses in the middle of an ice storm and got to school.

All you people out here who close shit down cause you have an inch of snow....grow a pair!
 

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Irridium said:
I live in Vermont. In the hilly/mountainous parts, and we get lots of snow. If its below 4 feet, there's school.

I've heard Finland takes a hardcore approach to it though. Like if there's 10 feet of snow, bring skies.
You do!?!?!

I live here too!
Maybe I have met you ( not a lot of people here so can't be too hard :/)