When I grew up in Detroit only the main streets were plowed, never the side streets. We walked to school and school was never closed, somehow the teachers always managed to drive to school. In suburban and rural areas kids were bused, I really don't remember if school was closed for them or not. Detroit has enormous salt mines underneath the city, salt no problem, but paying for it today is.

Up here in the sticks when I was growing up, the townies were expected to walk and the buses either ran on the main roads, or just didn't bother to.  If they did run, you were expected to make your way to a main road to get picked up.

These days, if the buses don't run, there's no school and it is made up for in June.  It's always funny to see all the country kids playing out in the snow, riding their snowmobiles all over, or ice fishing because it wasn't safe to go to school.  Even more fun to pick on the teachers who don't get the day off, but are expected to add an extra week to the school year before they get the summer off!

These days, if the buses don't run, there's no school and it is made up for in June.  It's always funny to see all the country kids playing out in the snow, riding their snowmobiles all over, or ice fishing because it wasn't safe to go to school.  Even more fun to pick on the teachers who don't get the day off, but are expected to add an extra week to the school year before they get the summer off!

I have a hard time feeling bad for the teachers having to go a couple extra weeks before a 2 month break.  Let's see you get to set at home and not work when it snows and is extremely cold and you also get to set at home and not work when it is extremely hot during the summer.  You can do this while you make fun of the mechanic and repair men that work on your things because they are not educated and dumb. 

My sister and s-i-l who are both teachers know not to even try and complain about their jobs or poke fun at those who don't teach.  Especially since I work on their cars and do most of the repair work around their houses.

These days, if the buses don't run, there's no school and it is made up for in June. It's always funny to see all the country kids playing out in the snow, riding their snowmobiles all over, or ice fishing because it wasn't safe to go to school. Even more fun to pick on the teachers who don't get the day off, but are expected to add an extra week to the school year before they get the summer off!

I have a hard time feeling bad for the teachers having to go a couple extra weeks before a 2 month break. Let's see you get to set at home and not work when it snows and is extremely cold and you also get to set at home and not work when it is extremely hot during the summer. You can do this while you make fun of the mechanic and repair men that work on your things because they are not educated and dumb.

My sister and s-i-l who are both teachers know not to even try and complain about their jobs or poke fun at those who don't teach. Especially since I work on their cars and do most of the repair work around their houses.

They sit around on their time off, while you fix their cars and houses? That DOES make them smarter than you!  :

A solid 18" here and more coming....was thunder and lightning during the snow this morning.

Just got home from 16 hours shoveling. White gold baby!

RW, regarding the list of all the school closings you posted, I'm curious as to which one you attend.  Is it Whus University?  ;D

Planning to be on the river Saturday and a local lake

Monday. I hope Walley-World still has their Gortex Kotex

on sale. I'll pick some up for you, too.

;D ;D ;D

This is a reason I very much dislike Memphis. 105 in the summer and 15 in the winter. Why can't we have average weather patterns like everyone else  :'(

That is a Wisconsin gift we sent you! 

I don't care about 50-80" of snow we get every winter, but 12° F?  COME ON, MAN!

I don't care about 50-80" of snow we get every winter, but 12° F? COME ON, MAN!

Haha ok I get the point  :-X.