Sunday, January 5, 2014

Report from the Deep Freeze

This is your intrepid reporter coming to you from the impending ice storm.  By tomorrow morning the temps are due to take a 20 degree drop, from the 30's to the teens, and then continue downward to sub zero realms. 

When bad weather occurs two questions immediately arise: How badly will we be hammered at work tomorrow, and will there be school?

Work conditions are still unknown, but school was called about 3:30, a record as far as I can recall.

When I was a kid, the snow day ritual was intense.  Early in the morning we would huddle around the radio or TV waiting for the school list.  Our school superintendent believed that if his dog could get outside to pee kids could walk to school, so it didn't happen often.  Now we get texts, emails and robocalls.  Takes some of the adventure out of it all.

Tomorrow was the first day back from winter break.. After two weeks everyone is already stir crazy...and now it may be Thursday before school  resumes. Everyone will be cranky and bored.

Makes sliding out the door to work look down right appealing.

Meanwhile everyone stay warm.

 
This was the yard before the current snow. 

This post, appropriately enough, is part of the I Don't Like Mondays Blog Hop.


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12 comments:

  1. I lived in a rural district that didn't usually have it's school closings announced on TV, but I can totally relate to the ritual of huddling around the radio. They always went in alphabetical order, so there was that tension as they listed off the districts. Will they skip us? Will there be a delay? Will we be closed?
    Ah, memories.

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    1. My high school was on top of a high hill too, and even when the roads weren't too bad the school was hard to get to. My dad would have to let me off at the bottom of the hill and I'd have to trudge on up.

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  2. Stay warm! I live in Charleston SC and I'm envious of your winter wonderland. Of course, if I lived in it, it probably wouldn't seem so wonderful having to shovel snow!

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    1. Right now I'm huddled over my first cup of coffee listening to sleet hit the house and I have to go out shortly so I'm not happy. But generally I do like the snow and wouldn't want to live where we didn't have it.

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  3. Stay warm! I'm jealous of the snow, because we hardly ever get any here in western WA, but deep down I know it isn't all snow days and sledding. I sure don't miss scraping a path out of my driveway!

    -Riss from Raising Heathens
    www.raisingheathens.wordpress.com

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    1. Snow is fine, subzero temps are not. We set some all time records this week. The kids have had 3 days off, today it was because busses wouldn't start.

      Also I'm lucky the Boy is home on break and doing the shoveling.

      Thank you for stopping by.

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  4. Your remark about huddling around the radio and TV in the morning really brought back memories of my school days in the winter. LOL. The anticipation that the DJ would say my school name was thrilling. I think kids and parents get texts nowadays?

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    1. We get texts and robocalls. No romance at all...

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  5. Brrrr! Stay warm! You know what's weird? Friday was a snow day, today they went back and it was 50 degrees. 50 degrees! Tonight it's going down to 10 degrees. Whattup widdat? With the nature of your job, do you ever get a snow day? I hope so. But then, like you say…it might be nice to slip out for a while. ;)

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    1. We do not get snow days, though we often get snow overtime. Tuesday, at the height of the chill, they sent all non essential personnel home. Dispatchers, cops, and firemen are all essential of course. This weekend we are getting 50's and rain. More mythical climate change.

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  6. Ah, I used to love sitting and staring at the TV ticker, hoping and wishing to see my school district on the list of cancellations! I've not outgrown it either-- I work in a hospital and we receive a mass email if we don't have to come in due to the weather... the second that email goes out I can count on a dozen celebratory texts pouring in from happy coworkers. That's the only upside to this horrible season! Well, that and Christmas and boots and scarves.

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    1. That is great you get messages telling you to stay home. We get messages calling us in. Its a living though. Thank you for stopping by.

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