Are most schools closed? I heard it mentioned on my morning commute that Boston was closing schools.
eta: sometimes other schools will tie there policy to the public schools
Zoe: Uh huh. River, honey? He's putting the hair away now. River: It'll still be there... waiting.
'Jaynestown'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Laura - Jan 14, 2008 3:16:21 am PST #2932 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Theodosia - Jan 14, 2008 3:38:23 am PST #2933 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Laura, I finally had to email the instructor to find out. Clearly, their communication policy needs some working on. Yes, just about all public schools are closed around here and most colleges, too. After the commute-from-hell last month I think that the authorities will be more likely to err on the side of caution.
In the meantime, I'll get a Snow Day, and can cuddle up with cats, TV, knitting, playing with Photoshop and programming and whatnot.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 14, 2008 3:48:48 am PST #2934 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I've got a snow day from work. The upside is I don't have to go out in this mess today if I don't want to. The downside is I'll have to dig out eventually. I think I'll split the difference and do a few rounds of shovelling/clearing today so that there will be less tomorrow (plus the stuff coming down now looks a lot less messy than what's on the ground.
Also torn between hibernating and trudging out to catch a movie. But, hey, SNOW DAY!
Sue - Jan 14, 2008 3:49:29 am PST #2935 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I love snow days. It's totally a gift of time. Except that you have to deal with the snow eventually.
Jessica - Jan 14, 2008 3:50:02 am PST #2936 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Damn you, New England! That's our snow!!
Theodosia - Jan 14, 2008 4:06:04 am PST #2937 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
NYC didn't get the four inches predicted?
Jessica - Jan 14, 2008 4:08:14 am PST #2938 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Nope, we just got rain. The snow completely missed us.
Theodosia - Jan 14, 2008 4:23:03 am PST #2939 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Aw, foo!
It's very pretty snow, too -- the kind that sticks to all the twigs, so the world is sugar-frosted for a while. With any luck it will be light and fluffy and not hard to shovel off....
Sue - Jan 14, 2008 4:23:21 am PST #2940 of 10001
hip deep in pie
The snow is heading our way, but unless we get a metre of snow, there will be no snow day for me. t /works for the snow day grinch
Theodosia - Jan 14, 2008 4:30:38 am PST #2941 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Friends of mine in Colebrook NH (just down the road from Quebec) point out that you can tell how "North" a place is by whether it has Snow Days at all. Once you get far enough into the snow belt, you would have to shut down all winter, after all.
They say that in the 15-odd years of having children in school up there, they had only one winter-weather-closure, and that was because a maintenance guy made a mistake in what kind of diesel to put into the school buses, and the fuel gelled up so they couldn't start on a -20F day.