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It's a New England Winter!!

rouar said:
My Subaru rivals that right now, only the silver paint hides it better. I took some dark pics last night but left the camera in the car.
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I just realized, the wife had the impreza in that pic...it was only a little more than a year ago (took it when we got home from our honeymoon, so it would have been like Dec 1st or something like that) and she has sold that car, bought the Legacy, Sold that, bought the Solara, I sold that SVT, bought Puds, and that car was wrecked last week. :laugh:
 
Well, I just called my town's board of ed superintendant office to express my displeasure that they gave the rugrats and teachers the day off. I mean here it is after noon time and there isn't even one flake of snow!! At least wait till it starts before calling the day.
Sheesh! How would it look if I took the day off cause there's "too much snow" and there isn't any?? [/rant]
 
ctmystique said:
Well, I just called my town's board of ed superintendant office to express my displeasure that they gave the rugrats and teachers the day off. I mean here it is after noon time and there isn't even one flake of snow!! At least wait till it starts before calling the day.
Sheesh! How would it look if I took the day off cause there's "too much snow" and there isn't any?? [/rant]
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OTOH --
If you call school in the middle of the day, then you need to assemble the buses last-minute, the parents have to immediately drop their work and go home (if they were even contacted about the early dismissal), and you run the risk of buses caught in the middle of the storm.

I ran into this once in junior high school when a freak snowstorm occurred (the forecast predicted a few inches max). We were let out at 1, but by then it was already too late, there was already 6+ inches on the ground and the plows couldn't keep up.

With this storm, the forecast predicted snowfall as early as 10am, and the media kept reminding us of last December's storm, to the point of demanding that we stay home. I believe it is sensible for schools to call early closure ahead of time (such as, in the morning so that parents can plan ahead), which many schools did. However, for some school systems it is simply easier to call a full snow day rather than early release. As example, those systems who use all of the buses for morning/afternoon kindergarten sessions like mine did.

We had to make up the days at the end of the year. As fun as an unplanned snow day was, it's not a 'vacation' for the teachers.
 
My boss just told us that if we're feeling nervous about driving home in the storm, we can leave early.
I'm feeling a 3:00 nervous breakdown coming on. ;)

j/k
I brought the truck today. I was actually looking forward to a really good storm so I could have some fun, but it didn't start snowing until just now.
 
watch out as its coming down fast. I left to go to walmart right as it was starting. ~20 minutes later I come out and there is at least 1/2" of snow on the ground if not more. everyone was driving supper slow. I suppose it was slippery but I didn't find it that bad at all ...
 
Welp, I'm still at work, 91S is practically a parking lot, I'm thinking of taking possibly unplowed backroads to sneak into 691 although who knows what it will be like at 5oclock. Good times!


p.s.

Sno Brum FTW!
 
HAHAHAH, I had to drive TO work at 4pm. I dont get out till midnight. Everyone else was leaving to go home because they are considered non-essentail employees, here i am driving to work. I work at UCONN Health Center so im considered an ESSENTAIL employee because our department is needed night and day, all the time. BUT i get 8 hours of vacation for coming in :) cant beat that. Drove my wifes car, 1990 Volvo 240, with 4 metal studded snow tires, it was AWESOME. I was passing trucks and cars stuck on the hills left and right, the volvo just goes. Hopefully it wont be so bad tonight at midnight, im sure it will be though :)

Matt
 
MattB said:
HAHAHAH, I had to drive TO work at 4pm. I dont get out till midnight. Everyone else was leaving to go home because they are considered non-essentail employees, here i am driving to work. I work at UCONN Health Center so im considered an ESSENTAIL employee because our department is needed night and day, all the time. BUT i get 8 hours of vacation for coming in :) cant beat that. Drove my wifes car, 1990 Volvo 240, with 4 metal studded snow tires, it was AWESOME. I was passing trucks and cars stuck on the hills left and right, the volvo just goes. Hopefully it wont be so bad tonight at midnight, im sure it will be though :)

Matt
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Is that the one by goldroc?
 
ctmystique said:
Well, I just called my town's board of ed superintendant office to express my displeasure that they gave the rugrats and teachers the day off. I mean here it is after noon time and there isn't even one flake of snow!! At least wait till it starts before calling the day.
Sheesh! How would it look if I took the day off cause there's "too much snow" and there isn't any?? [/rant]
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In a situation like today, the only way to play it safe is to call it off ahead of time.

Let's say they come in to school normal time, and realize around 11:30 that the snow is starting to come down hard. At that point they have to scramble around to make calls to the bus company, try to get them out there in time before the snow builds up even more. Parents that provide transportation their kids now have to be notified and hope they can get down there.

Classes are cut short and the whole schedule gets screwed up. Unlike a planned half day when all the times are adjusted accordingly, they can't be for an early release because of snow. Also, an early dismissal before a certain time in the school day doesn't count as a full day, so they would still have to make it up in the summer. Sometimes they wait it out to make a half day and then they don't have to make it up in the summer.

In our district, we even have students coming from surrounding towns sometimes due to special needs. They have vans drive them to and from.

I know here in Plainville it started to hit around noon and came down fast. I'm not sure about East Hartford because I called outta work. School was closed, but not a district closing and I'm one of the lucky few that gets to come in when schools are closed. :mad: There was no way I was going to get up, head over to an empty school, hang out for a few hours and then be dismissed early and battle the traffic on I-84.
 
I decided to be smart and take all back roads since the highway was packed and I knew all of the main roads would be too. Twenty minutes later I find myself at the entrance to my workplace .. full circle, whoops. So I took 101a to 101, then directly through the city (Second St -> Queen City Ave -> Elm St). I left work at 3, just got home 10 minutes ago. :laugh:

Next time I'm going to stick to the highway. :laugh:
 
CSVT1214 said:
In a situation like today, the only way to play it safe is to call it off ahead of time.

Let's say they come in to school normal time, and realize around 11:30 that the snow is starting to come down hard. At that point they have to scramble around to make calls to the bus company, try to get them out there in time before the snow builds up even more. Parents that provide transportation their kids now have to be notified and hope they can get down there.

Classes are cut short and the whole schedule gets screwed up. Unlike a planned half day when all the times are adjusted accordingly, they can't be for an early release because of snow. Also, an early dismissal before a certain time in the school day doesn't count as a full day, so they would still have to make it up in the summer. Sometimes they wait it out to make a half day and then they don't have to make it up in the summer.

In our district, we even have students coming from surrounding towns sometimes due to special needs. They have vans drive them to and from.

I know here in Plainville it started to hit around noon and came down fast. I'm not sure about East Hartford because I called outta work. School was closed, but not a district closing and I'm one of the lucky few that gets to come in when schools are closed. :mad: There was no way I was going to get up, head over to an empty school, hang out for a few hours and then be dismissed early and battle the traffic on I-84.
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Wouldn't the bus company already be on standby and be prepared for a possible early release. I know Enfield already has set early release schedules.

I guess I didn't think about the special :crazy:needs buses. I come from a day when we didn't shuttle children all over the state.
 
once it started snowing in framingham they closed the whole company down. manufacturing lines and everything, total shut down at 2pm. So after driving home, I thought now would be the perfect time to go shopping since everyone will be hanging out at home not wanting to drive around. Hopped in the Explorer, went to the mall, and now I'm back with all my xmas shopping done. There were more employees than shoppers!

By the way, the explorer rocks in the snow.
 
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