I do worry about kids without good coats not having enough food at home, either, and they are missing out on school breakfast and lunch.
None of it means a damn thing.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
Jesse - Jan 07, 2014 8:55:41 am PST #16609 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
-t - Jan 07, 2014 8:58:27 am PST #16610 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah, that's a problem.
Come to think of it, we might have had a school closure for cold. I know I was home the day after an ice storm (the only one of my childhood) but I don't know whether school was closed or it was a weekend or holiday anyway.
Ginger - Jan 07, 2014 9:02:33 am PST #16611 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Not only are they missing out on school breakfast and lunch, but they may well be home alone. And we've already had at least two space-heater-related fires just in the Atlanta area.
Trudy Booth - Jan 07, 2014 9:04:37 am PST #16612 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
A day or two without enough to eat is awful, but the space heaters are terrifying.
msbelle - Jan 07, 2014 9:08:49 am PST #16613 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
someone could make a ton of dough opening their home to emergency day care. In TX and NY, I know you do not need a license for less than like 5 kids.
flea - Jan 07, 2014 9:14:00 am PST #16614 of 30000
information libertarian
I spent an hour this morning reading articles about the blizzard Cincinnati (and much of the Midwest-NE region) had on January 26, 1978. Someone called wanting to know how many days the city schools were closed because of the blizzard. It turns out that noplace in the paper on the 26th, 27th, 28th, or 29th was there a specific mention of school closings, though there were tons of articles about mandatory no drive orders, people being rescued from their cars on highways and in rural areas, and a boat getting crushed into a dam by ice. Luckily in the paper for Monday the 30th there was an article stating that the city was planning to re-open schools on the 30th (rural areas were mostly still closed).
Now Teppy has me wanting to go back to the microfilm and see what the school closures were in 1977!
flea - Jan 07, 2014 9:20:12 am PST #16615 of 30000
information libertarian
Here in an article about the 1976-77 and 1977-78 winters, with more pictures of people walking across the Ohio river. [link]
Aims - Jan 07, 2014 9:32:32 am PST #16616 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
So far, my favorite picture in that group from the article is of Mayor Jerry Springer.
msbelle - Jan 07, 2014 9:39:40 am PST #16617 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am trying to drink a large glass of water before each meal. I hope it works for making me feel full, because this Lean Cuisine does not look like it will do the trick. Maybe 2 of them would.
flea - Jan 07, 2014 9:50:40 am PST #16618 of 30000
information libertarian
I know, his hair! Also, what was he, like, 25?