My comment was a bit short and blunt. No disrespect intended to the teaching profession. I have a brother, a niece, and a sister-in-law who teach. Schools here close several times each winter due to road conditions that I certainly wouldn't want to drive a bus on. Snow days for him usually put him working in his son's sugar woods.
Snow Day
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Hem
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Grew up in sugar woods. Old enough to remember pails not connected to one another.
Thanks for the memory jog this morning F250.
Living in Bangor, Maine. Think I was in K or 1st grade, that would be 63 years ago. Lived next to a drive in movie, remember those? It snowed like a ___________ for a very long time, drifts up to the eaves, must've been 5-6 feet in the yard and on the streets. Kept snowing on and off, too. I think we were out of school for a week, maybe. We didn't give two ______, it was fun to us.
Trailsend
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So far have spent close to 5 hours clearing snow, would rather be in my classroom!
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Bambistew
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Our kids have missed 5 of the last 10 days of school due to snow. Its so friggn deep chained up school busses are getting stuck in the streets. Luckily the 10 day forecast is no snow, now just have to find a place to put it all. Roads are about 1.75 lanes wide.
When I was a kid, I only had one snow day the entire time I was in school. Now days they seem to close the schools down whenever the weatherman just says there is a chance of snow. But I think that kids were more expendable back in the day. The grade school I went to didn't have busses, everyone lived within two miles so we either walked or road our bikes. On Columbus Day 1962 we were all in class when a big storm moved in. The "Columbus Day Storm" A storm of Ledgen. To this day, 60 years later, local news stations still do stories about it. The school got concerned as the storm was building and decided it was time to send the kids home early, so they turned us lose saying "go straight home" Most of the girls did just that but us boy just couldn't do it. It was too much fun. 50 mph wind with gusts to 70, tree branches and trash cans blowing all over the place, trees falling over with a crash and power lines dancing on the ground everywhere. Way too much fun. Parents weren't concerned because there was no such thing as text messages or anything like that, so they didn't even know we had been set free. No one got killed, so all was good.
Now days they would lock the kids in the school like it was some kind of prison until the parents came to get them or until the storm had passed. No fun at all for kids these days.
Now days they would lock the kids in the school like it was some kind of prison until the parents came to get them or until the storm had passed. No fun at all for kids these days.
I was planning to hit the road to SD this morning, but it doesn't look like fun there right now. Probably Yellowstone instead. Clean shit up for me, would you.
Tell that to all the kids in my neighborhood that are building forts, snowmen, and having snowball fights.
Plenty of fun yet to be had outside in middle America. This storm will provide a good amount of fun for these kids for weeks to come.
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I was called into work to help shovel snow during our cold snap here in MT. Comes with territory when you work in hotel industry. Had a guy calling saying I can't make it snowed in. Told him I'd be there to get them. Was eleven minutes late due to others on the road but he was there for work.
