In a few days we should be getting about a foot or two.
Michigan here.
One of my few regrets about being born female is the inability to grow a handlebar mustache. -LandstanderYeah, we got about an inch of fresh snow, with freezing rain after that - it made the snow all crumbly and iced over the windows. It's going to rain and snow more today and tonight, and then more freezing rain tomorrow throughout the day. Existing snow + more snow + ice + more snow + more ice = ???
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"The only thing bother me about this thread: Why cancel school over trivialities as a little snow?
Last time I checked unless it falls down more than 1,5 meter over night, it can be plowed away, hence not a problem.
Are you being deliberately obtuse or do you live in Alaska or northern Canada or something? Most jurisdictions aren't equipped to clear snow from all roadways in time for school openings if more than 5-6 inches fall (the degree to which this is true increases as you move farther south), and even in the more northern areas, you still have individual areas that get hit harder. Plus, local roads (where kids live) get plowed last and least, meaning in many cases the school buses can't get to the kids even if the main roads are clear.
School districts would far rather close or open late than run the risk of lawsuits from parents whose kids got hurt in a car or bus crash on the way to school. And no, they are not going to tell kids to put on their snowshoes and harness the dog sleds.
edited 1st Feb '11 12:37:59 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Instead of equipping regions with salt, we should equip them with flame throwers. It also triples as a weapon to take on both zombies and bees.
Fight smart, not fair.Fighteer, del diablo is in Norway. I think he can get away with calling most of the rest of us wusses.
Right now, there's a lot of snow blowing around, but not that much accumulating. We're supposed to get hit hardest overnight. Although right now, the Weather Underground page is looking a lot like Meteorologists Fail Math Forever — they're predicting 2 to 5 inches of accumulation today, then 9 to 11 overnight, then possible another 1 inch on Wednesday morning, for a total of "17 to 22". Fortunately, it's light and fluffy.
edited 1st Feb '11 2:05:58 PM by Madrugada
Hell, in South Carolina our schools shut down over an inch of snow. A single inch.
Which proves the old adage: "It's not the size of your snow drift that matters, it's where you stick it."
edited 1st Feb '11 5:45:09 PM by Meeble
Visit my contributor page to assist with the "I Like The Cheeses" project!I'd love to see snow here on Oahu. Big Island summits can get a bit here and there, but oh, the extreme wonderful carnage that would result on Oahu with just a half an inch? Epic.
Of course, even without the snowfall, the temperatures alone would be enough to bring the entire island ot a standstill. But it'd be great - for me, the exiled Oregonian that I am...
So yeah, bring us some of that cold weather, would you?
Happiness is zero-gee with a sinus cold.We've had like a bunch of blowing snow over the course of the day, combined with super intense wind and temperatures of around 10 and below. It's caused the campus to be closed for 2 days, which is absolutely unheard of. It's like a crazy snow curse. While we don't have classes, its too cold and windy to go anywhere.
It is just plain nasty outside. We got about a half-inch of ice, which is wreaking havoc on the local roads, and it's still "raining". My office opens at 10 AM, but I'm just not bothering.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

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I've been in the snow at Yosemite, Big Bear, and Mountain High.
Also, as a child, it once snowed like two inches in the Mojave Desert. I made Snand men! Sand Snowmen!