UPDATE: CLOSED.
This is a tough position for East Noble decision-makers to be in. The temperature is 24 and climbing, but we had a wet snow last night, some of it falling on still snow-covered county roads. The salt is working, but right now the effect is water on top of packed snow. Driving Alison to the hospital wasn’t too bad, since it is so close and we only have to go on two roads, both relatively major. But on the newly built road that doubles as a hospital drive, I felt the wheels lose all traction – not a good sensation.
Coming back, the truck in front of me fish-tailed badly and then a guy in a red (small) jeep went zooming by us. I could hear him thinking, “Hey, I’ve got a JEEP.”
It seems safer because it is warmer and because cars are not getting stuck in deep snow, but it wouldn’t take much to get way over-confident and then SMACK!
Although it is suppose to be five degrees above freezing today at some point, I think I’d go with a closing, because this is not that some point right now . . . and at this point, it is slick, slick and slick.
I remember in 1978 or maybe 1981 (so long agoooo!) in DeKalb County they opened school, but didn’t run the buses on the country routes. If you could get your child to school by car, they should come. They were given an excused absence otherwise. We did this for about a week. The decision was made, I think, because the city streets were okay and the city parents didn’t understand all the days of closings.
If you’ve never lived in the country, true country, where there might only be two houses on a mile of dirt road, it’s hard to understand what even three inches of blowing snow can do.
I certainly hope Spring appears soon .
“it’s hard to understand what even three inches of blowing snow can do.”
Whoa, you’ve got that right. I just looked out the back door (which I haven’t been using lately) and the snow was piled up higher than it has ever been this winter. I’m short, but still chest high is impressive!
Growing up our school district planned at least 10 snow days. It was glorious when we didn’t use them because we got out early at the end of the year. I didn’t complain too much about the snow as I wasn’t too far from town but I did have a classmate that on a regular basis had to ride the county snowplow down the mountain pass to get to the bus because at a certain point in a storm the bus would not go up the pass. Nobody blamed them because the pass was bad even without snow. She used to complain though because the snowplow would show up about 4:30 am to get them and she said those cabs don’t have a lot of extra room that allows for napping on the drive down the pass. Yup. I had it easy compared to her.
My kids loved drifts when we got them. They built ice caves in them. Looking back on it that probably wasn’t the safest thing to let them do. lol