Heart of the City by Steenz for November 24, 2015

It’s true – we do.

or a wildfire. Don’t forget the wildfires.

In Louisiana, a dusting of snow is enough to close the interstates, schools and workplaces. We also have hurricanes to get us off school/work. Not a good trade-off.

Look what a little snow did to Atlanta ! What was it ,2014 or 2013 "Snowmageddon "

Hmm…where I am, we’ve been getting snow for better than 15 hours non-stop. Oh, how I love shoveling in the morning!

When I was a kid in Arkansas in the 1940s and 50s, we had a fair amount of snow and ice in the winter. The schools never closed and the schoolbuses always ran. The school had no indoor plumbing and our water fountains were outside. They would freeze solid for days on end. We would bring a Mason jar of water on those days. Some kids would bring a miner’s pail that had two compartments, one for water and the top for food.The only time I remember school closing was in West Texas because of the ice storm of 1948. Water pipes froze in the school building and flooded the place and then re-froze.We had to go to school to find this out, then walk back home.

Grew up in Wisconsin. Never had a ‘snow day" from grade school thru college. An instructor didn’t show up one day tho

I grew up in Anaheim, CA. The only time we ever had the schools close for a weather event was when the temp hit 105 and the brand new school was not air conditioned.

irony

As a former Philadelphian who spent three years in Alaska, I quickly learned that snow didn’t stop school except on one occasion—the fall was so heavy that the street crews simply couldn’t get to the bus barn to clear the snow away.

I grew up on a farm in Southern Manitoba and I can remember first we get a dusting of snow. The radio and TV stations (that we were able to get) all said to slow down. Well, you would see on the news the vehicles in the ditches or into each other. I remember seeing a news report from Winnipeg where several vehicles banged into each other due to black ice (later an auto repair shop used that clip for their commercial).

one year we had 30 below wind chill and still had school found out later the superintendant feared ice more

Or a fire!

Local government in it’s wisdom built our university on the top of a (small) mountain. We could be guaranteed of getting 3-4 more snow days than the rest of Vancouver, but could also be guaranteed at least one afternoon when it would take us six or more hours to drive the two miles to the foot of the mountain. (Once most of the staff and students ended up sleeping on the gym floor!)

Heart. What happened to your eyes? Are you trying out for Annie?

You can always go to Canada and get too much of a good/ bad thing.