Were you guaranteed a snow day if there was a storm?
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I grew up in a valley town in New England and sometimes we would get 2 hour delays due to snowstorms. There were a lot of threshold situations where you thought you would get a snow day and didn't. I hear about how the South gets classes canceled with just an inch.
Kennesaw79@reddit
In Illinois, no. Even if there was 3 feet of snow overnight, school was still open.
In Georgia, yes. My high school was located in the middle part of a county. While we didn't necessarily get snow by the school or further south where I lived, the areas north of the school would, so the busses couldn't run, therefore school was canceled.
CardiganHeretic@reddit
Alabama -- we'd get a snow day if someone blinked and thought they saw sleet.
Loisgrand6@reddit
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RunningOnEmpty231@reddit
In the south, the mere mention of snow creates chaos. Actually snow on the ground and the world stops.
Itâs not as silly as it sounds, though. Where I am, our power lines are above ground and often get taken out by falling limbs. Our cars donât have snow tires and our town doesnât have plows. To say we are ill equipped is an understatement. A snow day is the safest thing for everyone.
Loisgrand6@reddit
As a southerner, my city definitely has salt trucks. Go east of me for a few hours and itâs a different story because they donât get as much snow as my area does. All that to say snowfall varies within the state as well as if they have salt trucks
Onyx_Lat@reddit
Here it completely depends on if it's bad enough the kids who live in the country can't get to school. When we'd get snow, we'd always have to listen to the news on TV or radio to find out if we'd get a snow day or not. Occasionally it would get bad enough they'd cancel it the night before, but I remember many mornings of getting up early just in case and then listening with bated breath to find out.
drunkenwildmage@reddit
Not here. I grew up in Ohio, and in the city I lived in, the city snowplows were very efficient at getting the roads cleared enough that the two school districts located in the city seldom canceled. I canât count how many times I went to bed thinking, âFor sure, weâre getting a snow day tomorrow,â and woke up to find out we didnât even get a delay. Every other school would cancel, but we still had to drag our happy asses out of bed so we could go to school.
eyetracker@reddit
It's about the impact on driving kids to school, so size of the snow event doesn't always correlate with cancellation vs. delay vs. business as usual. But it's always controversial no matter what they decide, Nextdoor/Facebook/local subreddit ranting ensues about how they made the wrong decision.
Wicket2024@reddit
I grew up near Chicago, we were lucky if we got a delay let alone an actual snow day. It would have had to be a couple of feet before they even thought of canceling. I now live in Houston. We have had snow 3 times in 10 years. Two were a dusting and they got a snow day. The other one was the "big freeze" were the power was off all over Texas (I lost power for 19 hours and I was lucky, some didn't have power for days). They had off for a week, mostly because so many people were effected.
Ok_Jackfruit2612@reddit
I'm in the South. We don't get a lot of snow. We do get a lot of hurricanes, flooding, etc.
We are much more likely to cancel for snow/ice than we are for a hurricane. The reason why is because we do not have the infrastructure to keep roads safe when we are having snow/ice. We don't have salt trucks, we have to bring them in from other places in the US and borrow them. Almost no-one has the right tires or snow chains or whatever. And walking to school or public transportation are not an option here.
We rely heavily on extensive freeway systems and without salt trucks or snow chains, it's just not safe to drive.
CupBeEmpty@reddit
Whatâs wild is when we have major blizzards in New England we actually get a bunch of line crews that come up from the south. Some as far away as Georgia and Alabama etc.
They love the work because it keeps them busy outside of hurricane season which is their normal busy time.
AZJHawk@reddit
I would guess that a lot of New England line crews also go South after a hurricane to help.
anonymouse278@reddit
They do. It's convenient that our regions stagger their grid-disabling disaster seasons in this way.
CupBeEmpty@reddit
Iâd assume I just donât live in the south so I donât see them
Happy_Confection90@reddit
We also get crews from Canada in border states. And as AZJHawk said, it's reciprocal, and we send New England crews both north and south to respond to widespread weather disasters we are fortunate to escape, too.
CupBeEmpty@reddit
Yeah I have seen the Canadians too. That just seems to make more sense.
Also with SAR we get a lot of help from the Canadians and vice versa.
Teri-k@reddit
Thank you! I lived in W TN for years, and people from other places always make fun of how often they get snow days. but the entire city of Memphis had 1 salting truck and a few plows, surrounding counties had none. They're expensive to buy and maintain. People there live around hills, there are a lot of small bridges, and often under that snow is a layer of ice. It's not just a matter of school busses making it, either. All the teachers and support staff need to get to school and home again safely. It's cheaper and safer for folks to stay home and be safe and go a bit longer in the spring.
I'm from rural CO, and we had a half mile private road that my Dad shoveled out every time so we could get to school because my Mom was a teacher. It was a real bummer. :)
Pillowmore-Manor@reddit
I grew up in a tiny town in Upstate NY, now live in East Tennessee, and my tiny hometown of >8k people has more snowplows than my small city with a metro population over half a million. This, mixed with the winding roads in the foothills that school buses would be required to navigate...yeahhhhh, no wonder they cancel school at the first whispers of snow and ice.
VisionAri_VA@reddit
It really depends on how common snow is in your region.
I live in the MidAtlantic where snow isnât uncommon in the winter (though â aside from this past winter â much less common than it used to be), so schools may be closed or delayed but businesses will generally just give their employees extra grace for being late. In states that typically have warmer winters, even a little snow is a major safety hazard because people arenât accustomed to driving in it.
Apocalyptic0n3@reddit
Heck no. Snow rarely determined a snow day - it was usually ice. I had way more snow days where there was 2 inches on the ground than when there were 10 inches. If the school buses can't run on time, they'd call a snow day and ice typically determined that more than snow.
"Cold days" when it was like -20F wind chill were a thing too.
JohnMarstonSucks@reddit
NYC didn't have a snow day for my entire childhood.
river-running@reddit
In Virginia: almost always. The school system I went to was in a real sweet spot. It served a large county with some of us living much closer to town than others. Often when it would snow, those of us who lived closer could have made it to school easily because our roads got plowed early, but because those who lived further out didn't get their roads plowed until later, everybody got the day off.
Dazzling-Climate-318@reddit
We rarely had snow days when I was growing up, but we did after a blizzard when the roads were closed, once even 3 days and had to walk to the store pulling a sled a mile each way to get groceries because my grandmother wanted fresh bread, eggs and milk.
BriLoLast@reddit
Iâm from southern Delaware where we didnât get snow all that often. We usually got sleet (ice mixed with snow). So we typically had 2 hour delays. If we got a lot of snow like my junior year (it was over 14 inches where I lived) we were out of school for a week because it was just so unexpected and unfamiliar. They essentially had no way of ensuring roads were cleared on time. Multiple housing developments had no way of getting people out of the developments. They were so underprepared that the schools had to remain closed, especially since many of our schools were on back roads and those are always the last to be treated/paved.
Gail_the_SLP@reddit
Western Waâwe usually got a snow day for an inch or two, but it really depended on the temperature. If it was below freezing, or above but predicted to fall below freezing during the day, school would likely be canceled. There were several reasons for this that are probably different from the northeast. First was our freeze melt cycle. Snow would fall, melt slightly, and then freeze partly or fully, which would turn the roads into a skating rink. Also, we have a lot of hills, which were impossible to buses. Combine that with rural areas, and a lack of snow plows because this really doesnât happen enough to make them worthwhile. Put all that together and you have a situation where itâs really not safe to be on the roads.Â
Gail_the_SLP@reddit
Google âSeattle bus slides over freewayâ for a cautionary tale
baddspellar@reddit
The Blizzard of 1978 led to lots of children being stuck on school buses. Made a lot of school districts in the northeast gun shy
KJHagen@reddit
When I was a government contractor in Virginia, we would sometimes get a snow day if there was just a forecast of snow. Here in Montana we don't get many snow days, but schools will often get a two hour delay due to snow. That gives time to get the roads plowed and the school buses dug out.
SirGlass@reddit
No , one time there was no travel advised . We still had school
Batgirl_III@reddit
Hell no! I grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan⌠I thought âsnow daysâ were something that was a fiction invented for childrenâs tv shows by Nickelodeon. I literally never had one.
If the weather was too bad for the bus, our dads would drive the kid to school by snowmobile.
Ginsu_Viking@reddit
Growing up in Wisconsin, it either had to be really bad (over a foot) or start too late for the plows to clear it by the time the school buses were out. The worst snowstorm we ever had when I was a kid was three feet in the space of about 12 hours. We got one snow day.
I live in DC now and work for the federal government. I have had a snow day for less than an inch because they usually call it by midnight. We also had a three foot snow one year and it shut down the city entirely for a week. Granted, because we are usually right around freezing, we tend to get ice with or instead of snow. Tends to make for very unsafe conditions. For example, we got four inches of sleet on top of several inches of snow this last winter. It formed a substance similar to concrete, to the point I saw someone digging out their car with a pickaxe! Also, since snow is rarer, there is a lot less staged up in terms of salt and plows. So, they get overwhelmed much more easily. Quite the culture shock!
Aggressive-Emu5358@reddit
Only if it made the roads so impassable that the busses wouldnât be able to reach the students in rural areas. More often it was a 2 hour delay. Iâd say 6-8 inches in one night might justify a snow day.
thebravekingamelia@reddit
It was all or nothing, but they didnât come easily.
FancyPickle37@reddit
I grew up in Virginia and they would cancel school for anything more than a flurry. Itâs a mostly rural area though so our roads were the last to get plowed/treated.
Bluemonogi@reddit
No. Not guaranteed. It had to actually be dangerous for cars to travel when I was a kid in Iowa. We would be glued to the radio or tv listening for school closings or delayed start announcements. Mostly we had to go to school. I remember freezing many times at the bus stop or walking to school while it was snowing.
These days it seems like schools close more often for weather reasons.
royhurford@reddit
I don't know if there has ever been a snow day here. Our busses have snow chains.
Eogh21@reddit
I grew up in southwestern Ohio. The superintendent of our school district lived up the hill from us. If is snowed, he would cancel school if he opened his dinning room window and could touch snow. That window was 6 feet off the ground. We always had school.
Now I live in the desert Southwest. School gets cancelled if there is a chance a snowflake might fall from the sky. It seldom snows here, hell, it seldom rains! But there are more snow days here than we got in Ohio.
TillPsychological351@reddit
Here in Vermont, if they declared a snow day with every storm, kids would be home half the winter. They'll only call it when even the plows can't keep up with accumulation, which is pretty rare.
AlienDelarge@reddit
No and I can recall a couple of poorly attended days because of it. Buses off the road, teachers in the ditch, and so on and so forth.Â
Midwesternsasquatch@reddit
Grew up in Wisconsin, typically for snow school isn't canceled, unless we got like 6+ inches in a day. We would cancel for extreme cold, typically -15 or lower. And if it was a bad ice storm there might be a delay. We were in a city, so most kids didn't take a bus at all, but the more rural areas would cancel more often.
Wak3upHicks@reddit
I saw snow like twice as a kid and it didn't stick at all
IconoclastExplosive@reddit
It snowed in my hometown once when I was a kid. A pretty light dusting, really, like a quarter inch. Shut the city down for a day. If there had been a blizzard it would have killed hundreds, maybe thousands, from sheer panic and idiocy.
KyleeTheShinyStealer@reddit
I grew up in Georgia, USA. Yes, even just threats of snow as enough to delay or cancel school for the day. There were a few main reasons for this- namely, Georgia so rarely got snow that we didn't have the infrastructure for dealing with it. We had no salt trucks, no snow plows, nothing. Also on the occasion it snowed, it never stayed cold long enough for the snow to stick around in the day and it would melt, then freeze as temperatures dropped overnight and cover the road in sheets of black ice. Power would go out and it could be days before it could come back on because the maintenance trucks can't even get out to the power lines.
When I was a kid, we had the "snow-pocalypse", or "snowmageddon", with snowfall anywhere from 7-12 inches depending on where you were in the state. School was canceled for two weeks because roads simply weren't safe, and if the school busses couldn't pick up even one kid on the route due to the snow, then the bus couldn't drive its route at all. Schools didn't call for it to be cancelled when the storm first showed up on the radar, not thinking the snow would be that bad since Georgia never for much snow, so we ended up nearly stranded at school as the snow began to fall and they ended the school day early. My mom had to come pick up my brother and I from school, and the drive went from 15-20 minutes to almost 2 hours of sliding across slick roads. It was terrifying.
As far as I know, after that happened, the state got a little more prepared for snow and got a little more infrastructure for it, but its still not at all the level it needs to be for school to not shut down for at least a day if it snows. This particular snowstorm has a wiki page with some interesting info, if you care to read more! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2014_Gulf_Coast_winter_storm
Dave_A480@reddit
Grew up in the suburbs of Milwaukee...
Had to be over 6 inches.
Particular_Bet_5466@reddit
I grew up in the suburbs of Milwaukee. In the 90s and 00s I remember watching the news eagerly as they listed the school districts going across the TV whenever we got decent snow. I remember a lot of disappointment too lol.
JORDY_NELSONS_ASS@reddit
Grew up in the Milwaukee suburbs too. Our unofficial rule of thumb was whenever MPS closed, we closed.
Particular_Bet_5466@reddit
Thatâs not how it worked for me, I had districts right next to mine, like actually bordering the neighborhood I lived since I was at the edge of the district, closed and mine wouldnât be. Iâm still a bit salty over that.
quietlywatching6@reddit
If they think we would have black ice, we were cancelled. Black ice plus swamps, could mean dead kids in a bus in a swamp. Also, ice on sand "dirt" roads also not safe for a bus to be on. If we got actual snow, you couldn't pay an adult to be responsible and come into work, much less a child.
jeff1074@reddit
Hell na. As long as you didnât die from going outside school was happening.
Icey-Emotion@reddit
Not where we live.
If it is a slow steady storm? Nope. The plows keep up and everything runs as normal.
When we get 1-3 inches per hour...for over 2 hours. Probably. If school is in session, they have let school out early due to heavy snow. At that rate of snow, plows have a harder time keeping up.
Actually, when the weather reporter says flurries, it can truly be flurries or up to 6 inches.
We tend to get a lot of snow here. So it is a matter of how fast it is coming vs total amount.
ketamineburner@reddit
I grew up in southern California. Never had any day for weather. Even the Northridge earthquake was on MLK day so I did not miss school. Schools that had more damage, of course, did close.
Honest_Paper_2301@reddit
I lived in Colorado. And we only had a snow day 1 time in all of the 7 years I went to school there. And it was only because the principal of the school had moved there recently and wasn't used the the amount of snow. If the bus could drive school was happening.
No-Heat-436@reddit
Colorado here. It kind of depended on who was in charge. I remember my eighth grade year, we didnât get any snow days because the new superintendent of the school board was from Alaska. There were so many accidents that year. Luckily, no students that died in those accidents, but they were on their way to school and students were involved. The guy got fired the next year and I switched to a private school.
The_Spaz1313@reddit
Douglas County? Lol
No-Heat-436@reddit
đ Adams 12, but you werenât far off. Lol
The_Spaz1313@reddit
Oh weird! I swear we also had a superintendent from Alaska who never gave snow days đ, maybe it was the same guy who moved districts
No-Heat-436@reddit
Bet! I wouldnât be shocked! đ
jessper17@reddit
Nope. When I was in school, there was one snow day in my k-12 years.
AmishAngst@reddit
Upper Midwest. Literally only canceled once my entire K - 12 and it took an act of government to make it happen and shut the whole state down because of dangerously low wind chill. Otherwise, my district canceled for nothing.
I recently ended up on a mail list for a school district in West Virginia (parent signed up with my email and there was no unsubscribe feature) and damn, I swear they canceled school if there was a stiff breeze. The number of "snow days" they had was absolutely astounding to me that I don't know how they actually got anything done. From November - March I would estimate no less than four days each month, above and beyond already scheduled holidays off.
packersfan823@reddit
No. We had plows and salt trucks owned by the city. There were plenty of times that it snowed and the trucks got the roads clear in time for school the next day.
Altruistic_Relief189@reddit
My high school owned it's own buses. They would make those suckers run when every other school depending on contractors would have to cancel.
PsychologicalAir8643@reddit
I mean I grew up in Los Angeles, so obviously a snow day (in the Valley no less!) would be near apocalyptic. But we did once get a rain day when the drains failed and the campus flooded! First weather-related day off of my whole life
bdrwr@reddit
In southern California we don't get snow days, we get wildfire days
CaptainAwesome06@reddit
Not all the time. Though I remember, in the blizzard of '96 that hit the Mid-Atlantic, we got like 2 weeks of school off. By the time I had to go back to school, I was still walking through waist-deep snow.
Zealousideal_Cod5214@reddit
Nope. My district never cancelled. My sister and I would wake up early to watch the little scrolly text on the news that would say the delays or cancelations, only to be disappointed that ours was never one of the ones cancelled.
It could snow multiple feet and they would still not cancel.
Calm-Maintenance-878@reddit
Nope. I grew up just outside of Buffalo. It snowed often so it has to be a really big storm to shut down school. The area is very prepared for snow, so if the roads were plowed, we had school. We also would have freeze days though, where it was cold enough to burst pipes and what not. Canât have kids standing and waiting for the bus when itâs negative out, or that was the idea as well.
ghoulthebraineater@reddit
Samein South Dakota. Snow days were pretty rare. Maybe an hour or two late start but you were probably going. It was the -40 windchill that would cancel school. That just gets dangerous.
Calm-Maintenance-878@reddit
I saw others mention delayed starts but that doesnât ring a bell for me. Maybe it happened but rarely. -40 wind chill sounds like death, hurts just thinking of it.
mcculloughpatr@reddit
3in+ 2hour delay. 1in if itâs wet icy snow.
Anything over that, off.
Rockglen@reddit
I've lived a bunch of places. The states in the southeast always freaked out if there was snow (drivers didn't know to slow down), and the bus people+school boards didn't want the liability.
When I was in Kentucky we had frost once so school was cancelled. Maybe things have changed since the 90s?
Ambitious-Ad2217@reddit
Grew up in the south and never had a snow day until college. I live in the upper Midwest and my kids get more days off for extreme cold than snow.
Kind_Advisor_35@reddit
In Washington State sometimes it was a 2 hour delay, sometimes it was a snow day. The ice on the road is a problem even if there isn't a ton of snow. It depends on how many resources the city has to salt the roads and plow the snow to determine how much snow it takes to close schools. Usually, the more snow an area has on average, the more resources are invested in snow response.
Reddittoxin@reddit
I grew up in Missouri and my bitch ass superintendent wouldn't ever call it until like, a couple hours before the busses would have to run.
I live in the south now, and only thing I can say about that is winter weather is a bit of a different beast here because we don't have the infrastructure/supplies like northern states do. We don't have the emergency supplies of road salt. Specifically where I'm from the soil is all clay, so drainage is always an issue. Ice melting and refreezing every single day/night can cause issues.
I remember my sister went to college in Georgia and they had a bad snow storm one year. She said she was the only one who had tires that was able to even drive on the snow/ice in her dorm.
So yeah, I can see it. It'll take way less snow/ice to incapacitate a southern state without the necessary supplies to combat that kind of weather than it would a northern state where they're well prepared for that kinda weather, bc it happens every year.
royalhawk345@reddit
Only got a snow day once. From a news report:Â
I think the power outages from the storm were as big an issue as the snow.Â
ghoulthebraineater@reddit
We were more likely to get cold days rather than snow days. Snow is just something you deal with. The cold can kill you.
winerdars@reddit
I live in Washington state and we get one snowfall a year that actually sticks to the roads. We will have school delays more for the ice and to let the roads warm up than have an actual full day canceled. It all depends on busses being able to get to school or not. But in an area that rarely receives snowfall, we arent prepared and so school is cancelled.
SuperPomegranate7933@reddit
I notice in the last 15-20 years or so our schools here in CT close at the drop of a hat. When I was in school we didn't get a snow day unless it was snowing heavily in the morning & expected to continue. Delays were way more common.
The_Spaz1313@reddit
Same thing in Colorado!
TALieutenant@reddit
I'm from the Portland, Oregon....say the word "snow" and you might as well say the apocalypse is coming. Â
Recent_Permit2653@reddit
We didnât get snow when I was in school. Heck, I thought the world was ending because one morning it was 39*f and I had never before or since seen a low in the 30s there.
Later on I moved to Texas. Since we donât stock snow removal stuff for the once every other year snow, much of the town just shuts down if thereâs any snow that sticks.
whatdoidonowdamnit@reddit
Nope. NYC. We had and have snow days only for bad storms. I think my kids had two days off for that last one
JONOV@reddit
In the Great Lakes area, typically it would have to snow very heavily starting around midnight. Sooner and theyâd scramble the plow crews.
KillBologna@reddit
Nope, they made our asses trek through that shit
Phoebe_SLC@reddit
Utah. Our state bird is the snow plow. I remember school being cancelled exactly once, and I'd already walked the mile in the storm. (Uphill both ways, I know, I'm old)
TsundereLoliDragon@reddit
Back in the day? Oh hell no.
Separate-Raccoon8584@reddit
It only got cancelled if it was impossible to drive on the main roads. Some days just had a lot of absences because the main roads were ok but some roads were impossible to drive on. My dad would always do a test brake on a specific road to make sure he could drive to work (at a school) if there was ice. But I lived in the mountains so it might be different.
zoppaTheDim@reddit
One system it depended on the farm kids.
The other on whether the superintendentâs canceled on the big hill by his house. We used to joke about icing it down when it was cold.
phred_666@reddit
I live in a very rural county in Appalachia. Road conditions can be very treacherous in snow. Imagine having sharp curves on steep, hilly roads with drop-offs of 30 feet or more on the side, often with no guard rails. That is what a lot of our local school busses have to drive on. Do you want to drive on that in a road covered in an inch or two (or more) of snow?
hollowbolding@reddit
i think VERY fondly of obama making fun of dc/md/va for closing during the 2009 blizzard and EVERYONE going 'JUST YOU WAIT FOR SUMMER MR PRESIDENT'
peoriagrace@reddit
No, we did get out early once, because a really bad blizzard was coming.
Jaqen-Atavuli@reddit
I am in Georgia. When I was a kid, it actually had to snow but we would get a snow day. Before covid, Atlanta screwed up massively closing down, too late, during the snow. Kids were stuck at school and people were stranded on the interstate overnight.
Now, if it might snow, schools are closed.
CriticalSuit1336@reddit
No, I grew up in North Dakota. One day when I was in high school, there was 24" of snow, and we still had school. There had to be zero visibility before school would be canceled.
G00dSh0tJans0n@reddit
If there was even a chance of snow flurries we would get a snow day
False-Cookie3379@reddit
Same
CupBeEmpty@reddit
Entirely depends on New England on when the snow falls and how much.
A lot of times if you get a big dump of snow on Sunday itâs cleared up by bus time on Monday. If itâs snowing heavily Monday morning theyâll call off school or delay opening even if the total amount isnât as much just because itâs more dangerous to have busses out when itâs actively snowing before the plows start clearing.
So thereâs no guarantees but they make the call at like 5am one way or the other.
Very rarely they will have early dismissal if snow comes earlier than predicted but if itâs supposed to be actively snowing heavily at the end of the school day they will call off the whole day because not everyone can leave work early to get their kids.
pizzlyatlas@reddit
The south of America is not built to Winter conditions like this, so Texas will legit panic over an inch or so of snow being forecasted and close all schools from daycare to universities. The north of America however deals with it near daily, and will go to school in knee high snow. so it just depends, but what you heard about the south is true because its genuinely DEADLY here because our infrastructure is meant for hot climates. the snow storm of 2021 genuinely took lives and took down our POWER GRID, thats how serious it gets
littlemedievalrose@reddit
School closes for any amount of snow here
nojugglingever@reddit
In elementary school in the Midwest (SW Ohio) in the mid 90s, I would say we usually got about 2-3 snow days a year, and maybe a couple âno yellow busesâ days due to weather where like 60% of the class wouldnât be there.
I feel like, starting in 1999 or so, snow days became much rarer. I donât know if the criteria got stricter or what. But they were almost never a thing in junior high and high school
famousanonamos@reddit
If the busses could make it, we went to school. I remember plenty of times going to recess and there being snow on the playground. We just had indoor recess if it was actively snowing. As long as the plows came through, they chained up the buses and got on with things.
lock_robster2022@reddit
In Oregon, if it snowed about 6â after midnight they would cancel it pretty consistently.
Doortofreeside@reddit
6" was always my benchmark in Massachusetts for the possibility of a snowday
whatsupgrizzlyadams@reddit
6" inches + is every snow storm in Michigan.
lock_robster2022@reddit
Did it matter when? Like if it started snowing at 8pm theyâd be able to get the plows going in the AM and weâd need a legit blizzard to cancel. Hated that lol
Doortofreeside@reddit
Yeah an early evening snowfall would be the worst for that
meenadu@reddit
We either had school or we didnât there were no 2hour delays. The bus driver put chains on the tires and came to get us. We had to have quite a bit of snow to cancel school. Teachers who lived in the district rode the school buss when the weather was really bad.
whatsupgrizzlyadams@reddit
Im genx. If it snowed hard you walked to the closest paved road. The only time we didnt have school was if the power was out or the Government declared unsafe road conditions. Storms in 1976 and 1978 we missed about a week of school. We didnt get days off for negative temperatures. You just dressed for the weather.
-Boston-Terrier-@reddit
It depends on the severity of the storm.
We got a lot of snow this year and my kids were home, I think, three days but our governor declared a State of Emergency on one so it didn't count as a snow day. Most of the time our schools do a 2 hour delay when it snows though.
spiritualspatula@reddit
Colorado, only snow days I ever got was when the structural integrity of my school was possibly compromised from snow weight. Once they determined the roof wasnât collapsing we were back in school.
In some parts of the state, theyâll close for windchill or snow, but where I live they had school when it was -30 not including windchill.
_Internet_Hugs_@reddit
Nope. It would take a huge amount of snow to keep school from running. I live in an area that traditionally gets snow and a certain number of snow days are built in to buffer the required number of school days, but my kids hardly ever have school cancelled. If we really get dumped on then they'll send out an automatic call saying that nobody will be marked tardy or absent so we're welcome to take our time getting our kids to school or we can keep them home if that is our decision.
I have four kids and they started going to school in 2006. From that time until now There has never been a day when school was outright cancelled.
RoleCombobox@reddit
The exact rules depended on the current superintendent, but growing up in central NY in the 90s, it generally was something like:
- snow day: I think if they couldnât plow the streets (using huge industrial snowplows) by a certain time, which usually translated to â2-3 feet of snow on the groundâ
- windchill days (kids had off; staff still had to report): windchill of -25 degrees F or colder
I didnât like windchill days as a kid because my mom worked for the school district, so I had to go to a daycare program instead of staying home. Plus windchill days were cold as shit no matter what, whereas snow days werenât necessarily that cold.
RevolutionaryWind249@reddit
From Minnesota so almost never, at least in the age I was going to school. In fact there were times that my parents thought school would be closed and it wasn't. I remember Dad driving me to school on sheer ice one day. If the buses could go through it, school stayed open. And there were times when the bus got stuck and they sent another bus to pick us up and take us to school.
Libertas_@reddit
Yeah but I lived in a city that doesn't snow, ever.
FANTOMphoenix@reddit
-40 degrees fahrenheit with windchill and mild snow storms was still a school day. Had to bike home 2 miles in that shit for middle school.
qu33nof5pad35@reddit
No, I donât remember having snow days that much.
evil_burrito@reddit
I grew up in the Midwest, which gets its fair share of snow.
Snow was not guaranteed to cause a snow day. Part of the ritual was to get up and listen hopefully to the radio where they would announce school closings, if any.
As soon as it was announced, kids would run outside in celebration.
It truly was the best fucking thing ever.
The_Lawn_Ninja@reddit
When I was a kid, it had to be a genuine blizzard for us to get a full-on snow day. Mostly we got two-hour delays, or nothing at all if it wasn't still snowing hard by morning.
These days they're thankfully much better about not putting a bunch of kids on a bus in dangerous driving conditions. If there's flurries in the air or still snow on the road, there's a delay, and if the snow is still falling in earnest, they close the schools.
HotButteredPoptart@reddit
No. Grew up in a pretty rural district. A decent amount of kids, but the district was huge. Closings/delays would depend on how the roads were ont the far edges of the district out in the woods.
musical_dragon_cat@reddit
In New Mexico, we had roads covered with thick, solid ice, and only got a 2 hour delay. That was the scariest bus ride of my life!
anneofgraygardens@reddit
it once snowed like two inches and they cancelled school.Â
CheesE4Every1@reddit
When I was a kid in school there had to be snow on the ground and actual wrecks happening.
Traditional-Photo227@reddit
Look, we don't have the infrastructure for fucking snow because of how rarely we get it here. An inch? Lol. If it even hints at snowing, schools will do a snow day off. When it actually does snow, if it sleeps and the roads ice over, everything shuts down.
latelyimawake@reddit
I grew up in northern VA, so kind of on the fence when it came to snow management; they had plows and it wasn't often we'd get canceled just for flurries, but it was also just warm enough that the threat of the roads icing was ever-present, so you really never knew if you were going to get canceled or not. So many memories of late night or early morning watching the news as they announced closures county by county and just praying we'd get out of school. For some reason I remember Prince William County always seemed to get off, whereas mine (Fairfax) always seemed to be the one county that never did.
Fae-SailorStupider@reddit
Minnesota. We sometimes had late days because of heavy snow, an we would only get snow days if the temp dropped below -30â° with wind.
ButterscotchAware402@reddit
I grew up in central New York. A snow day was never a guarantee. I lived in northern Virginia for a year in 6th grade, school was closed at the slightest chill (exaggeration but not by much).
IPreferDiamonds@reddit
Went to school in the 1970s and early 1980s. We rarely got snow days.
Radiant_Macaroon_992@reddit
I moved from Vermont, where we never got snow days, to the mountains of NC when I was in 6th grade. In NC, they canceled school as soon as it started snowing, even if it wasnât sticking.
Malicious_Tacos@reddit
I did the reverse!
I grew up in a beach town that had no snow plows, so if we got 1/2â of snow everything shut down for a week until it melted.
Then I moved to New Hampshire⌠where I swear it snowed every Monday and Thursday! Iâd see the school kids bundled up in snow suits waiting for the bus. By that point I was working, so I didnât get snow days either.
evaj95@reddit
In North Carolina, pretty much. We need an inch of snow or ice to close school here, so if it's less, we'll still have school.
tenehemia@reddit
No way. Mostly because there were always going to be a bunch of snowy days each year and the school was only allotted so many to choose as actual snow days. If Minnesota schools used the same criteria as schools in Texas, for instance, there'd be almost no school in session between November and March.
I remember one day in probably \~1992 or so when school was closed because there was a -60 wind chill that morning. The next day school was open because the wind child was "only" -40. In many places -40 wind chill would be an apocalypse scenario.
inbigtreble30@reddit
Haha. Hahahahahaha.
No.
Seriously, though, the timing was important. 3 ft of snow at midnight? Better pack your bookbag. 6-12 in at 5 am? Now we're talking - two hour delay is likely with a full snow day on the horizon if it's supposed to last all day.
The more concerning feature is ice storms. We were much more likely to get a snow day for an ice storm vs a snow storm because it's significantly more difficult to clear and more dangerouse to drive in.
rawbface@reddit
This is gonna sound stupid but what's the difference between a snow storm and an ice storm? I know hail is different from snow, but I don't think that's what you mean either. In what other way can frozen water fall from the sky?
inbigtreble30@reddit
Rain/sleet in freezing temperatures - once the ground freezes any cold water that hits the road is going to freeze into ice or partially freeze into slush. Unlike snowy roads, icy roads do not offer any traction, and icy roads with a layer of slush on top are death traps.
Lost-Time-3909@reddit
School is cancelled at the possibility of snow here. Itâs easy to mock in town, but a lot of the district is rural and the roads get pretty bad quickly.
mads_61@reddit
No. I can count on one hand the number of snow days I had from K-12.
EgbertSouse2@reddit
At my school, only the kids who rode the busses in from the country, got out early. We townies never got snow days. The one single time we did, we actually had to make it up between Xmas & New Year's.
thecryptidmusic@reddit
Early in my school days, early 2000s, it had to be pretty snowy. By the time I graduated, just a forecast was enough
q0vneob@reddit
NEPA in the 90's would give us off for an inch or two, or at least a half day. Blizzard of '93 we were out for nearly three weeks, it took a good week until our neighborhood even got plowed and we were just stuck there. I remember them getting stingier into the 00s, glad to hear it reversed. Snow days are fun and school was boring.
eugenesnewdream@reddit
Nah, I grew up in NY (went to Catholic school) and we often had to go to school in the snow. But you're right in the South, I live there now (well, barely, but technically still South) and have kids in public school and they cancel at even the threat of snow or very cold weather or ice or wind or what have you.
MonicaBWQ@reddit
You need to understand an inch of snow in the south is a big deal! Roads are not normally salted. There are very few snow plows. They arenât worth the expense! Even an inch it isnât not a common event.
wolfmann99@reddit
Only if travel got dangerous, so heavily drifting snow, bitter cold with it, or the plows couldnt keep it off the streets fast enough if say it started snowing at 4am and was going heavy until like 7am.
Mdan@reddit
I live in Virginia. Snow days happen sometimes for basically little snow, but you have to recognize theyâve got no way of dealing with snow here. They donât have legions of plows and so on like more northern states do, because thatâd be a lot of money for rarely used equipment.
carisjax@reddit
I've lived in/gone to school in Michigan, Maryland and a boarding school in Philadelphia.
5 years (k - 4) in Michigan, and I only remember one snow day. And Michigan had snowy winters
3.75 (5 - three quarters of 9) first year there, there were major snow storms and we missed so many days that they had to extend the school year well into June.
I don't remember any at the boarding school, but there may have been days where teachers didn't come in.
But yeah, in Michigan and Maryland if their was a good sign of major snowfall over night, or later in the day school would be canceled.
JudgeWhoOverrules@reddit
A snow day in Phoenix? Get real.
SweetieFootModelling@reddit
south-midwest here. first snow almost always gets a snow day, even if it's not that bad. after that, they usually only close for bad days, and otherwise it's a two hour delay
BlackQuartzSphinx_@reddit
Nope. We had indoor recess days but I never got a snow day.
Now I'm a teacher, and the closest we've come so far is a day when we had an unscheduled early out.
el_butt@reddit
Our school was on top of a hill, we had a reputation for closing lol
Academic_Profile5930@reddit
That's because the south doesn't have the snow removal equipment, ice treatment materials, etc. to cope with snow. AND drivers don't know how to drive on icy roads.
tcrhs@reddit
Everything shuts down in the Deep South during a snow storm. We donât have the equipment to salt roads. Icy roads are too dangerous. And, the power usually goes out quickly. Weâre stuck home.
Dear-Bet5344@reddit
Oh yeah. Central Mississippi here. We heard like a week after our big storm last year the highway going north was finally reopening. We didn't realize shit shuts down like that here. We're from New England, it was nothing. It was quite a shock for us.
Spirited-Way2406@reddit
South coastal Alaska. When I was a kid we got frequent snow days, but one year it snowed like hell and was gone by noon. After that the administration refused to allow snow days for about 14 years--until a bus ended up in a ditch. Today's kids get snow days when it's coming down faster than the plows can keep up.
lunarlandscapes@reddit
I grew up in North Dakota and thought snow days were made up for TV until I moved to Colorado, where it's a 50/50 and depends on how bad the storm is / the mood of admin that day
FunJackfruit9128@reddit
if there was a possibility of any snow we would first get a two hour delay, and that would almost always turn into a snow day. i live in the south, so icy roads really screw us over down here, so usually any snow would guarantee a few days out.
Ozzimo@reddit
I'm in the PNW. Our schools send out bus drivers to scout the routes a few hours before school is meant to start. If they cannot drive the routes safely, they'll either delay or cancel school. Snow is rare on the wet side of the state so we don't have equipment to deal with it. So no plows or salt machines. I'm sure if we got more snow, we'd spend more tax money on being prepared for it.
scottypotty79@reddit
I went to school in Utah from 9-12 grades and never had school cancelled due to snow, even when we had some big dumps. Where I live now in western Oregon, the school by my place has a snow day any time there is measurable snow on the roads.
Basically, the more common snow is, the less likely school gets cancelled. This is because the people in snow prone areas are used to it and the snow removal apparatus is much better than places with infrequent snow.
Phoenix_Court@reddit
Not at all. we would wake up early to check the news to see if we had school or not. They would send us in in horrible circumstances half the time, just to avoid delays and cancellations. 2 hour delays were cool, but snow days were amazing. Sitting around the TV waiting to see if you were on one was basically a right of passage.
OceanPoet87@reddit
Late start in my area is usually if it is about 3 inches or more. Closure if 4 inches or so usually. This is because while we are in our small town, the district also includes farm kids at high elevation in the mountains.
Consistent_Damage885@reddit
No, a snow day here in Colorado depends on timing of the snow, temperatures and infrastructure impact. Basically if the busses can make the commute safely and likely close to on time then school will happen.
I do think there are more delays and closures now than before given the same event because the population has grown a lot and roads and infrastructure didn't keep up, so the same storm is a bigger issue now than before in some cases.
Electrical_Stage_610@reddit
I grew up in San Antonio- we got a snow day if there was even a hint of any sort of frozen or semi-frozen precipitation.
Bulky-Passenger8735@reddit
Born and raised in Arizona. Only seen snow days on tv. My partner is from Brooklyn and had a handful growing up.
Darkdragoon324@reddit
I donât remember ever having a snow day growing up, even during some pretty bad snow storms.
rawbface@reddit
Snow falling from the sky would not guarantee a snow day.
If it was going to snow overnight before school, it would most likely be a 2-hour delay, depending on the amount.
We have salt trucks and plows in my area. You'll see the streaks of brine sprayed on the road before a snowstorm. If it snowed the day before and didn't gather on the roads, see you in school tomorrow.
You'd need like ~4 inches of snow and persistent below-freezing temperatures to get a full day off.
SnarkyBeanBroth@reddit
There are parts of the country where they don't have the equipment to make the roads safe enough for busses, and also the drivers often don't have any experience with driving in snow. Transporting kids just isn't safe. Additionally, the schools are often not set up to handle really cold temperatures - HVAC not really up to that level, don't have the staff and/or equipment to keep walkways clear, etc. So, snow days in those places are pretty much the default if there is any snow at all.
Other parts of the country have snow for months on end. So obviously snow days there are only if the weather is really severe.
Source: Have lived in both sorts of places.
reptilianamphibian@reddit
NE Ohio. No. If the weather was in the negatives though...maybe. if the roads are not usable Absolutely. Bus snow storm for my city doesnt really mean much unless the storm is bad or if the roads are iced.
SabresBills69@reddit
the South does not have the snow ploys Massachusetts have so they canât easily plow 2-3 inches overnight. souther snow plows are pick up trucks with front end attachment
LowCress9866@reddit
Nope. We got "snow" days only when it was too cold or too icy. Never because it just snowed alot
kae0603@reddit
Rarely. Blizzards only. Grew up in NH. But we would listen to the radio with such hope!
SuperannuatedAuntie@reddit
Only if there was 10â or so, because schoolbuses couldnât get up the hill to the highschool.
ContributionLatter32@reddit
Yep Im from western WA so very far north but snow is still rare in the lowlands. So if we got basically anything on the roads at all schools would close. Dustings we still had to go though. Â
jrice138@reddit
Grew up in California and only once got out of school early because of snow. Thats one of like three times I remember it snowing when I was a kid
Caliopebookworm@reddit
Absolutely not. The school I attended only had a snow day if the nearby school did and the nearby school was mostly farm kids. They very rarely had a day off for a snowstorm.
Street_Breadfruit382@reddit
Northern Minnesota: when I was a kid you had to hope for at least a foot overnight to get cancelations. That was fast enough accumulation that they would have a hard time plowing it all clear by morning. Beyond that it was more about how icy the roads were. My dad was an early morning bus driver and occasionally got the say for the whole school district. But spring sleet was more likely to cancel classes than snow. *These days* they have COLD days and I canât help but laugh.
LongOrganization7838@reddit
Nope, grew up in salt lake and there was a 20 year stretch where we never had a snow day prior to 2019
ImaginaryCatDreams@reddit
Where I live, if they think there's going to be a really hard frost that might have ice on the roads they'll cancel school.
If it snows, the entire portion of the state where it falls will completely shut down.
ToughFriendly9763@reddit
no, the superintendent for my town almost never cancelled school until a girl that lived on my street got hit by a car walking to school during a snow storm.Â
hypo-osmotic@reddit
Iâm out of school now but I have friends in my hometown with kids that age or that work in the school system. From what theyâve told me, it sounds like snow days are a lot more predictable now than when I was in school. The standards for how many inches of snow requires a day off havenât changed that much but theyâll be announced earlier even if that occasionally means getting it âwrongâ when the forecast changes and we donât get as much snow as expected. When I was in school, sometimes weâd hear about a cancellation on the radio when we were already on the way
Jsmith2127@reddit
We only got snow days is the busses couldn't safely run, on the roads.
I grew up in Idaho. We very rarely got snow days
shelwood46@reddit
I grew up in a city in Wisconsin. Most of the kids in the district were *not* bused, so while every school calendar was issued with a week or more of snowday makeup days in June (school ended on Memorial Day), we almost never used them. It was more likely we'd get a "snow" day for low temps, but even that was not common. I once got frostbite walking to 7th grade without a hat (it was on my ear). As an adult I moved to NJ and now PA, the districts around here are more generous with snow days (especially since they can do remote learning post-2020 and not have to do a makeup day), but the 2 hours delays are much more common.
HarlequinKOTF@reddit
Nope. It would need to be severe.
SssnakeJaw@reddit
1 inch of snow = a day off from school.
fakesaucisse@reddit
I rarely experienced snow days or early dismissals. I grew up in Baltimore City, and snow days were only granted if the public transportation system was disrupted. The surrounding counties (Baltimore City exists as its own entity, not inside a county) would have more frequent snow days because they relied on school buses and parents driving kids to school, so those schools would close a day ahead if there was even a hint of snow in the forecast.
seifd@reddit
Nope.
Scrappy_The_Crow@reddit
Yes, because of two factors:
we don't have the snow prep and snow removal infrastructure to the extent that regions with regular snowfall have
the "snow" NEARLY ALWAYS TURNS TO ICE
The last bullet point can't be emphasized enough. Even where it snows regularly, there's prep/removal infrastructure, and the populace is used to it, no one drives well on ice. You can claim you do drive well on ice, but you're either deluding yourself or you're lying; I know this because I have lived up north in snow regions and there are plenty of videos out there of Northerners wrecking on ice.
AtlasThe1st@reddit
Theyd delay the school, but they wouldnt cancel. Even if they canceled buses due to weather, you were expected to come in
avicia@reddit
If you live somewhere without plows and salt, you're more likely to get off school. Growing up in the 80s my school system in PA shut down a lot before they have a notorious event a few decades before where children and staff were stranded at school overnight and a couple of kids walking home from stuck school buses almost died. Some parents and staff lived through that so it made them more cautious. Now, I live somewhere where a lot of people walk so if kids are walking in the street because sidewalks aren't cleared, closed. Wintry mix: i.e ice more than snow. Closed.
CDA_CPA@reddit
My town has three plow attachments that hook up to the front of regular pick up trucks.
Thatâs it. Thatâs all we have.
It takes about half an inch of ice or snow to bring the city to a grinding halt.
This past winter we had approximately seven inches of some weird combination of snow and ice that stayed on the ground for TWELVE days. That is our new record.
LilacOn_Green57934@reddit
Snow days arenât guaranteed here. Unscheduled leave can often be taken, or you might be able to pivot and work from home. It depends on the job.
CraftFamiliar5243@reddit
I grew up in Chicagoland in the 60's. It took a blizzard to close school. We went out for recess every day in winter even when it was snowing or very cold. Maybe not if it was below 0F.
slothboy@reddit
Oh definitely not. Many snowy mornings I would be sitting at the radio listening to the closures, which were basically all the schools in a 30 mile radius EXCEPT MINE
Head_Razzmatazz7174@reddit
We get ice storms and they shut down the state.
The south does not do cold weather very well.
soothsayer2377@reddit
In Minnesota, particularly MSP, it took a lot but we'd probably still get a couple a year.
We_R_the_Penguins@reddit
For as much snow as we get, itâs cheaper to just cancel school sometimes than to maintain the capacity to deal with storms that you get every year and we get every ten.Â
crowfvneral@reddit
absolutely not. as a hoosier, it had to be either incredibly deep snow or very thick ice in order to even warrant a two hour delay. if we wanted a full on snow day, we had to work a literal miracle lmao
Surprised-elephant@reddit
No I lived in Minnesota. Maybe 2 hour delay. Would need like 10 inches to get a snow day.
I_Weep_for_Willow@reddit
Real talk, I grew up in upstate NY and sometimes we had snow days where (even as a kid) I'd be like "Really? This ain't shit."
Not that I ever complained...
Dizzy-Interview-4438@reddit
guaranteed? not always.
iâm from a rural area so school would be canceled for snow if the trucks couldnât get to the back roads in time (which honestly happens a lot because my school district is almost my entire county)
SdenRed@reddit
Rarely.
InannasPocket@reddit
Northern Minnesota. More threshold days, it's gotta be pretty bad for them to outright cancel, more common a delay for the plows to have a chance, and more frequent for ice/visibility conditions than just snow unless we really get dumped on.
MarcusAurelius0@reddit
My entire 4 years of highschool there was 0 snow days.
I live in one of the top 10 snowiest cities in the continental US.
Illustrious-Set-7907@reddit
In Texas, when I was small we got a snowday because there were icicles (and Ice)Â
I moved to Montana. The ruling was school would only be canceled if the busses couldn't run, so no snow days.Â
Practical-Ordinary-6@reddit
Keep in mind that the South doesn't have snow removal equipment in great quantities. Lots of places in the South only need it once every three or four years so they don't buy it and stick it in a warehouse for 4 years without being used. That'sust not economically defensible.
When it snows you just wait it out because it's only going to last a day or two before it warms up again. I do have equipment assault and send the main roads but they have nowhere near enough equipment to do all the neighborhoods where the buses have to go to pick up kids. So they don't try. You would do the exact same thing if you got snow once every 4 years. It's better ways to spend the money than on unused equipment sitting in a warehouse.
shammy_dammy@reddit
Depends on which school it was. Utah? Hahahahaa. No. Texas....oh, absolutely. My kids going to school in WI? It better be piling up.
Glass_Witness1715@reddit
In southeast Texas, ice or snow gets a snow day. Happens rarely and we donât have the equipment or knowledge to deal with it, so itâs safest to cancel schools. So, growing up, I got both snow days and hurricane days.
MaverickLurker@reddit
Growing up in Virginia, the threat of snow would cancel school. I once was out of elementary school for a week because a major blizzard shut down my city. That was an exception though. I do remember it stating to flurry in 6th grade back in 1999 and they decided to close the schools, only for it to stop precipitating altogether before we all got on the busses to be dismissed.
Raising my kids in Western Pennsylvania, it's been surprisingly similar, even though we're more familiar with snow up here. An 8 inch snowstorm shut down my city as a kid, but my kids had a 17in snow this past January and had a week off. The amount of snow is more, but the rate of closing is similar. They won't close for 1-3in, but they will for anything more than that. And 2 hour delays are a lot more common as well.
Chimmychimmychubchub@reddit
Depends on where you live. This is a large country.
Kingberry30@reddit
Depends on the state and local governments
Few-Wrongdoer-5296@reddit
It didnât snow where I grew up but we did get extreme thunderstorms that would knock the town power out for a week. And yes, school was in session that entire week.Â
WritPositWrit@reddit
No, it had to be BAD for it to be a snow day.
BrazilianButtCheeks@reddit
Itâs not so much the snow itâs if thereâs ice on the roads
Distinct_Damage_735@reddit
In NYC, weather had to be apocalyptically bad before they would close the schools. The administrators always figured that a lot of kids wouldn't eat that day if they didn't go to school, I guess.
LABELyourPHOTOS@reddit
No. I come from Mass, too. Really depends on timing of the storm.
If there's no place for kids to walk to school or the roads weren't treated delay-- if storm is still raging, no school
RockStarNinja7@reddit
I grew up in central California. There was literally no weather that could or would have closed school.
Free-Sherbet2206@reddit
It never snowed growing up, so no.
jrc5053@reddit
Western PA - not guaranteed at all, but maybe one or two a year?
PossibilityOk782@reddit
living in upstate new york snow days happened a couple times a year if we were lucky, usually when it was extremely icy, most days even with snow storms we still had to go unless it was really icy or still extremely windy or somthjing
SaltandLillacs@reddit
No, it all depended on when the snow started/how much of it there was. We needed close to 1ft to get a snow day.
MortimerDongle@reddit
No, I probably had fewer than a dozen snow days my entire time in school. Usually only got one with more than six inches of snow or so.
Nowadays my kids almost always get remote learning days if there's snow
DOMSdeluise@reddit
oh yeah. No infrastructure to handle snow down here, city needs to shut down.
Skoolies1976@reddit
Went to elementary and middle in northwest montana. we never had even one snow day, and we lived on the mountain, our bus ride would def make me nervous today but it was just our norm. If it was like below zero they would let is into the gym before school started. We did love playing outside for recess.
cygnus311@reddit
Itâs more about ice and wind than snow. Theyâre much more frequent now than they used to be with how much easier it is to announce. Our school had I think four snow days this year.
Both_Painter_9186@reddit
Highly dependent. I live in DC Metro area but grew ip in upstate NY. A three inch snowstorm would have probably been a delay in NY when I was a kid. Here the entire area basically shuts the fuck down Covid style for several days.
Malicious_blu3@reddit
Not guaranteed, no, but they were thrilling when they happened.
GSilky@reddit
I'm in Colorado. The tradition was if busses couldn't get out, no school. Now if 5 inches falls in an evening in April (very normal occurrence), and doesn't even freeze, school is cancelled. IDK why, I remember getting a snow day about once every couple of years because it's Denver, you should be aware of how to get around after it snows, as it does occasionally.