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.

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.

A day or two without enough to eat is awful, but the space heaters are terrifying.

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.

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!

Here in an article about the 1976-77 and 1977-78 winters, with more pictures of people walking across the Ohio river. [link]

So far, my favorite picture in that group from the article is of Mayor Jerry Springer.

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.

I know, his hair! Also, what was he, like, 25?

Sometimes I accidentally hit the "read out loud" thing on my phone -- I'm not even sure I could do it on purpose -- I can report that it's kind if funny to do it on a post here.

Been doing laundry and still am. I'm going to go find my book now, because I've resolved to read a book a week this year. That's the only concrete resolution, and I'm figuring there will be some side benefits aside from just the joy of reading.

I remember one day of school being called on account of super cold weather, and our heater broke sometime during the night before! I remember huddling under the covers with hat, coat and gloves for the morning. Amazingly, someone was able to fix it same day.