Savage Chickens by Doug Savage for January 10, 2024

Move to the American South. A few snow flakes and it’s a snow day.

In Minnesota, same thing. Except all the big snow fell right at the beginning of the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.

That’s the problem with home-schooling.

I started school in town that had school busses, moderate to heavy snow could cancel school. We moved a few years later to a town without busses, and just like Doug, all the surrounding schools (with busses) had snow days, but not us.

They would like the school districts on the radio* alphabetically. I was in a “W” district. So er would wait and wait, only to find that we were the only ones (again) that were not cancelled.

for any young-uns, this is a mostly obsolete analog communications technology

Living in central New York growing up, we had to have some severe weather to get school cancelled. Now ,where I live, an inch causes panic.

We rarely had a snow day when I was growing up.

Brings back memories.

My hometown literally had this experience during Ice Storm ’98. It saved the newscasters oodles of time to say “school is closed in every town in the state except (mine).”

Thanks to climate change, they’ll soon be closing schools for rain days.

And then the radio announcer says, “Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah!!!!!!!!!!!!!” :)

In Buffalo area, our school system started with “S” and was usually the second last system mentioned.

I actually had that happen once. Radio DJ was reading the list of school closures, and then pauses, says “Hang on, let me check something,” and throws on a song, and then after he goes “Yeah, it looks like every school in the state is closed, except for [my high school].”

And even then, it was just the kids in the city, not the surrounding towns who bused in, even though because of the sprawling nature of the city and me living on one end and the HS on the other, there were at least three towns where most of the kids were closer to the HS than me.