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...but that's never happened to me. Like never ever. Nope not even then. That's just not a thing here. I guess it's all because 'winter weather' is a normal occurrence during winter and you're supposed to plan accordingly or some other bullshit. :P
nobody
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01/28/2014 at 01:19 |
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I've never had a class canceled for weather either, but that's because this is the forecast (in C) for the entire winter.
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> nobody
01/28/2014 at 01:25 |
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Over here the temps were about 50 degrees lower than that throughout last week. At the moment we're at -15.
MtrRider Just Wants Doritos
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01/28/2014 at 01:29 |
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Winter Weather here means... I'm not sure what winter means here.
SteyrTMP
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01/28/2014 at 01:33 |
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Yeah, -2F right now... I think I'm going to drive the Seven to work tomorrow. Gotta find all my winter gear, first. And hope I don't have to do anything else before work, because then I'll be confined to the Subie.
Enginerrrrrrrrr
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01/28/2014 at 01:38 |
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Agreed. I had 4 days cancelled in 4.5 years of college. 2 were because some teachers crashed going to school, it was so shitty. The other two were because it was physically impossible to get to school. I went to a school nestled in a bowl of the foothills of Colorado, we had shit loads of snow each year.
Just because you get 6 inches or less doesn't mean you should cancel. If anything it's a challenge to get better at driving in the snow >:D
My girlfriend is a teacher in CO now and they get snow days notified the day before... and sometimes they get like 0.5" of snow... WAT. Or they get snow days because it is cold... yeah like it's never been cold in CO before...
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> Enginerrrrrrrrr
01/28/2014 at 01:44 |
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There were no snow days throughout all of my education. That includes primary school, junior high, high school and 3,5 years of University (I'm still not done with that). I've only heard of one instance of school being cancelled due to snow (and it was unconventional enough that it made the national news), it was last year somewhere in a God-forsaken village in the middle of nowhere.
Hoccy
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01/28/2014 at 01:44 |
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I've only had school cancelled when there was no electricity, which was partially because of too much snow. The past two days we've had 40cm of snow and cancelling classes isn't even a discussion.
Also, forecast:
Jordan Clifford
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01/28/2014 at 01:47 |
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18 inches of snow in 24 hours when I was at University of Idaho...
Dean sends out an e-mail: classes are NOT canceled
Leadbull
> nobody
01/28/2014 at 02:00 |
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WHY WOULD YOU USE CENTIGRADE?
DONT YOU LOVE AMERICA?
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nobody
> Leadbull
01/28/2014 at 02:02 |
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I'm a meteorology major, so everything we do is in Celsius (or Kelvin) except for US surface maps and forecasts. I have to be able to convert between C and F in my head almost without thinking, so I use the less familiar C when I can.
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Leadbull
> nobody
01/28/2014 at 02:06 |
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I kinda figured. I just like to type in all caps when I'm sleep deprived.
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Enginerrrrrrrrr
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01/28/2014 at 03:01 |
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Damn. Where do you live?
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> Enginerrrrrrrrr
01/28/2014 at 04:35 |
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The Great Land of Great Poooolandland
duurtlang
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01/28/2014 at 06:08 |
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It's what separates the men from the boys.
spanfucker retire bitch
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01/28/2014 at 07:09 |
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When I was in school (as in, not College) we only had class canceled once due to the actual temperature - and that's when it was -15F, with a wind chill god only knows how low.
Now a days my same school district cancels classes if it even approaches the single digits. Buncha' damn panzees.
Now snow/ice days are a different story. You can't "plan" for that. The buses can either travel in those conditions or not, it has nothing to do with how well you prepare for it. If the roads are too dangerous (or even worse - if there's a driving ban) the buses ain't going out and there's obviously not going to be any school.
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> spanfucker retire bitch
01/28/2014 at 07:26 |
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Last year we had temperatures in the range of -40 and nothing got cancelled. It just doesn't happen.
As for snow days, for some reason that doesn't seem to be an issue here either. Roads to schools get cleared and buses/cars can go through. It's that simple. Driving bans are also completely unheard of here (and IMO utterly ridiculous).
KirkyV
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01/28/2014 at 11:32 |
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Largely thanks to our complete inability to deal with snow, this sort of thing has been happening fairly often lately in the UK. We generally hardly ever get any of it, but over the last three years or so, we've gotten at least one 'significant' - by most other countries' standards it was but a dusting - period of snowfall, bringing pretty much the entire country - 'cept Scotland - to a complete halt. Each time, there were calls to invest in equipment to help better deal with it, but most people - including myself - thought it wouldn't be worth the expense, as we get it so rarely. Then it kept happening for three years.