School Closing Because of Predicted Weather?
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We maybe got out of school due to snow. But back then they just chained up the buses and went about business.
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Adults didn’t really care if kids lived or died back in the day… they just wanted them out of the house so they could drink and have affairs.
Its been done here once for an incoming line of storms with tornado potential... They didn't quite call it early enough and the kids ended up sheltering in the school, and me and a bunch of parents sat in our cars with one eye on the sky and the other on our phones watching for local tornado sightings. Tornados in June is kind of a new thing here.
We had a few rain days in high school. The schools will pre-emptively close when there is a large storm inbound.
In HS our practice field was near the Middle and Jr. HS. One afternoon in late August a thunderstorm rolled in. We all took cover underneath the covered walkway at the middle school waiting for the storm to pass. Lightning struck near by and the steel cleats worn by a teammate sparked.
Generation S for soft.
Bad Wx seems like the ideal time to teach the snowflakes about meteorology.
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Sometimes S is for soft, sometimes it's for Smart, and sometimes Stupid.
Serious weather can kill you in certain places and times. Many people have not experienced this yet in their lives, but I can assure someone who hasn't that it is indeed "a thing".
An impending blizzard dropping several feet with 100MPH winds is nothing to play around with, or a known tornado alley.
I remember school being closed in Chicago due to cold. 50 below that was100 below with wind chill.
Floods in the canyons is fun too.
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I remember when I was a youngster in primary school... we'd have classes rain or shine. I recall walking uphill, in a blizzard, just so I could get to class early enough to clean the chalk board and beat the dust from the erasers.
The bus drivers would get up early and get the chains installed on their busses and then make a test run of their route before their scheduled pickup times. If a section was unpassable they would have an announcement made on the local radio stations so the kids would know to walk to the nearest pickup location.
We'd play in slag piles of used up coal cinders on the playground and would beam with joy on Pizza Thursday. We loved recess outdoors, getting a first recess milk for a nickel, and even having the occasional field trip to some local business or farm.
While this story is a bit sarcastic, I do remember what a huge disappointment it was when you got to stay home sick. Mom would let you lay on the couch and watch daytime television and it just wasn't good. Gilligan's Island didn't come on until 3 PM and I just felt like a misfit in my own home until the normal time to get out of school.
Looking back, I loved my childhood and am glad the adults didn't make it too easy on us. When a heavy snow storm was blowing through on a Sunday night I'd stay glued to the radio with hopes of hearing the announcement - "No school tomorrow in Raleigh county". It was like an unscheduled visit from Santa Claus.
The bus drivers would get up early and get the chains installed on their busses and then make a test run of their route before their scheduled pickup times. If a section was unpassable they would have an announcement made on the local radio stations so the kids would know to walk to the nearest pickup location.
We'd play in slag piles of used up coal cinders on the playground and would beam with joy on Pizza Thursday. We loved recess outdoors, getting a first recess milk for a nickel, and even having the occasional field trip to some local business or farm.
While this story is a bit sarcastic, I do remember what a huge disappointment it was when you got to stay home sick. Mom would let you lay on the couch and watch daytime television and it just wasn't good. Gilligan's Island didn't come on until 3 PM and I just felt like a misfit in my own home until the normal time to get out of school.
Looking back, I loved my childhood and am glad the adults didn't make it too easy on us. When a heavy snow storm was blowing through on a Sunday night I'd stay glued to the radio with hopes of hearing the announcement - "No school tomorrow in Raleigh county". It was like an unscheduled visit from Santa Claus.
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Because back in the day a tornado watch was seeing one coming out your window. Which is better, or worse, lots of kids all in one place or dispersed at their homes if a tornado comes through?
Not having to walk uphill in the snow both ways to school has made the latest generation weak.
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