When I was a kid we got up early before school to listen to KEX Radio to learn if it has snowed enough overnight to close school. The announcer ran through the list in alphabetical order. If there was a lot of snow many names were read out until he came to the r’s for Riverdale. My brother and I would be jubilant, knowing we had a day of sledding with friends ahead of us. It was worth waiting for the r’s!
To my grandson’s dismay, despite the 18” of snow that fell in the last 24 hours he is doomed by technology. Since Covid, schools have learned to use Zoom to teach remotely. While the snow beckons outside he is forced to sit at a screen. For him the saving grace of school is his group of friends—not a mischief maker among them. I feel for the whole bunch of active 16 year old boys forced to sit still, staring at a screen. I imagine one or two will find a way to prank each other nevertheless. I look forward to hearing what happens.
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So cute! My daughter waits for fog days–those the only winter vacations we get here.
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I never heard of fog days. We sometimes have very dense fog when the temperature changes radically, but not enough to cancel school.
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Over here, a lot of kids travel all the way from villages to school in cities. Fog means not being able to see where they are going. And since India gets such few foggy days, well, it is an excellent excuse to stay at home.
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I never knew that but glad to enlarge my world view.
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Nice to see you back Betsy.😘
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Am trying to get back in the habit. The political chaos and cruelty here is very exhausting.
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Love the pix!P&B Sent from my iPad
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Thanks kid!
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Aww! Too bad.
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I guess Zoom school was so unproductive that the next day of ice and snow they just had the day off.
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As someone who grew up in some pretty severe winter storms in the Dakotas where school was rarely cancelled, I got quite a kick when one year we had a rare day of snow in California where an inch of snow stayed on the ground and school was cancelled.
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Portland was similarly paralyzed by an inch or two. Because Western Oregon isn’t equipped with enough snow plows I once got stranded in Astoria until I could buy studded tires and come home along the Columbia instead of through the Coast Range. Portland, three days later, was still impossible.
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Bummer. Doesn’t seem fair at all! ❄️☃️
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You are a good ally for my grandson!
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One of the prices of technology. Such a shame
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The next day they came to their senses and just cancelled altogether.
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Although it never snows that badly in central London, we did have some fierce winters when I was at school. But it never closed because of bad weather, not once. We had to trudge through the snow and ice, or be marked absent. The tech that kids today love so much is now being used ‘against them’. No time off from Zoom! 😊
Best wishes, Pete.
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In college classes were never cancelled even with the mammoth 36” blizzard. However that day we got to class only to see a note that the Professor wasn’t coming in!
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What a shame!
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I did laugh when the school didn’t repeat the experience the next day.
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😀
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Just yesterday we were talking how we enjoyed school days. Vacations were real vacations and there was hardly any pressure on us.
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I always enjoyed a day off to go sledding. Quite uncommon in my childhood.
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