Southern Ohio's idea of a 'SNOWSTORM'

[blas]

The only times schools close "just in case" around here is when we go through several days of a deep freeze. Windchills must be -30 to cancel school. Two weeks ago, I think the kiddies got Thursday and Friday off of school because both days it was even colder than that in some parts of Wisconsin with the windchill.

When I was back in school (granted it wasn't THAT long ago) we rarely got a snow day. Foot of snow? Pffft.....everyone can make it! Only if some little smartass went to the bus garage and unplugged all the busses would we get a snow day.

If that isn't dumb enough, people where I work call in when we only get 2 inches of snow. Or when it's below zero. We. Work. Inside.

[Android Kaeli]

If you think THAT'S bad, try having people freak over flurries that don't even stick to the ground. Schools were on a two and a half hour delay because of it. >.>

Where I used to live, flurries are NOTHING to get overly excited about.

[Fandangoose]

I don't know why people think they'll get snowed in for weeks either.

But I'm pretty sure the tv weather people are enjoying the kickback checks they receive from the large grocery store chains.

[Apathy]

Nice timing, I wrote a comic about just this thing. Sorry for the shameless self promotion. If you look, read the comments box. People are idiots everywhere, apparently. As if I needed more proof of that.

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Yes, I'm aware of the redundancy with my signature.

[Broomjockey]

Windchills must be -30 to cancel school.

We don't cancel school unless it's -30, and then windchill on top of that. AND snowing. I think in my entire time, they cancelled school once. Alberta sucks for that.

[Peppergirl]

It's true - I was born and raised here too, and we always had to go to school when I was growing up, even if it snowed.

Cincinnati Public was notorious for making kids come to school when it was truly horrible out...and now, like one poster said, even if there's the 'threat' of it being bad, they call it.

Probably its the modern parents and the 'special snowflake' and helicopter-parent syndrome that's become so rampant. I'm sure it's forced alot of school districts to make these stupid decisions.

[TravisRB69]

3-6 inches? Bunch of little wussies.

[Mordecai]

I was born and lived in Fairbanks, Alaska for the first six years of my life. 6 inches of snow is NOTHING.

[Chromatix]

I'm in Helsinki. It's snowing right now. Life goes on.

[fireheart]

For us in Australia, we recently celebrated Australia Day. Basic version: it's the day when Australia was founded as a colony.

Annnyway, I can top the 3-6 inches of snow. It was about 38 degrees Celsius outside and we were PACKED at work. I kid you not, most of the registers were about 7-8 customers deep and the express lanes had a humungous line backed up past the entrance gates.

[friendofjimmyk]

It snows in Nebraska a lot...but not as much as it did when I lived in Cleveland right off the lake! Lake effect snow was insane!!!

It snows a lot in Iowa and I don't know what's wrong with that state but even the lightest dusting will shut EVERYTHING down...well, okay...at least EVERY highway for hours. Literally. Cheeselandialand, which is also in our service footprint, gets DUMPED on and the decision to close roads comes only after several inches have fallen. Not Iowa...2 inches an the highways come to a stop.

I'm seriously considering moving back to Texas (dallas), if anything, just because it snows maybe once a year...MAYBE.

[casey13]

In the Northern part of Ohio, some areas decided to wait till the snow stop before they plowed in the earlier part of the year. We had10-12 inches that weekend. I think it was actually more, but I didn't stick around for the entire weekend.

[mishakal908]

I grew up and still live in Cincinnati too. I went to college south of Toledo, OH (BGSU). I got some wonderfull lessons on how to drive in the snow while living there. There they didn't plow until it's stopped snowing either. When I moved back to Cincinnati after I graduated I was scared to drive around in the snow. Not becuase I didn't know how to drive in the snow but because of the other people driving around like idiots. I've been out of school for a while now it I still hate driving around the city in snow because of other people. If it's snowing and you're not comfortable driving in the snow DON'T GO OUT!

Thankfully my company has it set up that you can work from home if it snows. So that's what I'm doing today.

To me, depending on where you live, it's all relative on how much snow it takes to shut down a city or scare people into the grocery store stampede.

[protege]

3-6 inches is nothing. I live in Pennsylvania. I remember the Blizzard of '78, the one of '80, and even getting nearly trapped in the mountains because of snow (3 *feet* of it came that weekend alone, and there was already a foot or so there ) in the early 1990s.

1980, we got so much snow, my mother couldn't even bring the car to get me at nursery school. She had to go home, and come back with the sled. 30 years on, that's the one thing I remember. Well, that and having both of my parents home for a few days--most of the borough roads were dangerous and/or closed...and the city buses weren't running.

Seriously though, other than that, I don't ever remember being stuck. Sure, the streets could be closed, but we always had food. If we didn't, it wasn't too far from the convenience store, or even the grocery store...if you have the balls to walk along a slick, busy highway...

With all that said, I really don't know why snow reports cause people to freak out. Who knew that one little snowflake could not only pack all stores, but can turn every damn road in the county into a freaking parking lot. That's some powerful shit right there...

[jedimaster91]

I live in Kentucky, and we got the 3-6 inches of snow. Except ours came with ice. I can deal with snow. Ice, not so much. I'd rather have a foot of snow than a quarter inch of ice. Of course, my work is open (stupid evil library director -_-), but I don't have to be in until late, so I'm waiting to see how the roads are. And if my subdivision is one big sheet of ice like it normally is when it snows, I ain't goin anywhere.

I also remember one year all the schools let out early because the blizzard of all blizzards was bearing down on us and we were all going to be trapped in our homes for weeks. Never got a single flake. But I do remember being in Kindergarten when we got a two feet of snow and then the temp dropped to -20*F for about a week. Kentucky's just not equipped to deal with that sort of thing. Or any of the other severe type weather it gets of a fairly regular basis.