Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 09, 2023

I often subscribe to the “Personal Devil” theory: We each have a personal devil whose duty is to imposed disorder and difficulty (thereby to make it more likely that you’ll fall from grace… or maybe just because they like doing things like that). That’s why you don’t brag on how well things are going: The would alert your devil.

I still say our Hell is here on earth.

Make your own fun, that’s all we can do.

Shouldn’t they at least be sent home early..? And Frazz, your afternoon cardio will be shoveling snow!

What 1st Grade teacher has time (1 hour) for a Lunch Hour run? None that I ever met in over 42 years in education.

Here we go again. Religion and Donald Trump, both on the same day, on the same page…

I sure like Frazz more each passing day.

here in my area of michigan if snow is even in the forecast the schools are closed!

When I was in fourth grade, we got a surprise snow that wasn’t enough to delay school, but was up to my knees by noon (when they sent us all home). I only lived half a mile away, but my brother almost couldn’t drive us home. The drifts were up to the top of privacy fences by evening. If it’s a real blizzard, everyone is either going home before the end of school or has to stay at the school overnight.

When I was attending college in northern Wisconsin during the 1960s, I used to drive school bus for a district where the superintendent knew how to read a weather forecast. If it said that “the blizzard of the year” was due to start mid-day, school got cancelled. (Of course, that was back before climate change, when “blizzard” actually meant something.)

I’m not sure when the blizzard, all 23" of it, started in January of ‘67, but I do know that by 10am they were closing the school and it was getting hard to see the field across the street from the school. Busses were few and far between and I shamelessly cadged a ride from a mom whose daughter I didn’t even know but who was heading in my direction. Great stories came out of that storm.

Blizzard of the year and nobody knows it’s coming? Blizzards are not like tornados. A storm may drop more snow than expected but that is not a blizzard. Nobody in Western New York went to school on the Friday before Christmas.

Don’t they listen to weather forecasts? In a town near us, they called a school day because of the weather report… and they didn’t get even one flake!

As I recall from ages ago, when a really big storm hit while we were in school, it was such a distraction that it was almost like a day off.