We are in the negative temperature digits and we have a wind chill somewhere in the negative 20’s. Most schools are on a two hour delay, although Fort Wayne Community Schools have closed. I think the kids may have gone two days this week, but maybe only once. So the question is this: Will the area schools stay with the delay or close?

The plows have been working constantly, but there are a lot of rural roads that buses must use and every intersection corner is piled high with snow towers.  They have missed so many days, everything is totally our of whack with schedules for graduation  and summer jobs for kids already. Finally, it is Friday and the physical plants at the school have not been revved up for heat for a couple of days.

So, will they call a closing? I’m thinking not. I think they are going to go, which means I am going to have to thread a needle getting the car out of the driveway and I am going to have to listen to Summer “make remarks” all the way to the high school. (Which some of you will realize I am happy to be experiencing.)

UPDATE: I hear stomping around  – we are still a GO. If the decision to close because of weather is not clear cut, the procedure is to go to a 2 hour delay at 6 am and by 8 am, make the call if they are going to close. It is 7:43 am and in the next quarter hour, they will start to fall like dominoes or NOT. And then it will get grumpy like you wouldn’t believe.

UPDATE: CLOSED, CLOSED, CLOSED.