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[inspector gadget]

So I went to school today to teach winter camp in the southwestern part of the penn. I arrived and the secretary asked me if my co teacher called me. I said no she didn't, she told me that because she lives about a 35 minute drive away she and another english teacher could not come to work today.

I was suprised to say the least because there was maybeeeeeee at best one centimeter on the ground and I just arrived on the rock only two days under my belt at my new gig (although I taught here for one year in 2003.

My question is this.

Do you think these folks are using the slightest precip. of snow to simply take the day off?

or

Are they really that incapable of driving on what would be equivilent to a wet road??

Being from Canada I just think it is somewhat hilarious that a snow day is inacted from such a small accumulation.

[VanIslander]

[inspector gadget]

Van man,

No not from the west coast but I have spent enough time there that I know it snows more than 5 or 6 times a year there.

Anyway, not to worry, I ask because I have been here for about a week and a half and it has snowed four times already and was just curious as to what others thought about it.

It just seems strange that 20 of my students that also live 35 minutes away showed up on time with no problem using public transit.

[Qinella]

Definitely an excuse.

As you said, public transit still runs.

[taobenli]

I'm from Seattle, which has very similar weather to Vancouver (my family lives there), and in Seattle it has snowed a grand total of 1 time this year, and then the snow didn't stick much. But you bet that people freaked out when they saw white stuff falling from the sky and some schools took a snow day because they were afraid of the conditions on the road. If it snows an inch in Seattle, the local news annoucers proclaim a "deep freeze" on the news!

[joe_doufu]

In LA even a light sprinkling of rain gets the local news to interrupt regular programming with an edge-of-the-seat "storm watch". LA drivers are very practical, they figure the less time they spend on the wet roads the safer they'll be -- so they drive at 150% of their normal speed.

I guess that's why it makes for such good television.

[RACETRAITOR]

This is kid's stuff.

But seriously, how many long weekends have we had in the past half year? When was the last time we had a four-day weekend? I'd do it if I could.

[krats1976]

I'm also down in the SW of Korea and yeah, it's a lame excuse today. There's hardly anything on the ground and it's not that slick.

Not only do we have school, but we didn't even have any late students (which is saying something since a few of our kids live way out in the countryside and have trouble getting in on really nasty days).

There was some heavy traffic on my road due to a fender-bender, but no worse than what often happens on clear, dry days.

[krats1976]

[Hollywoodaction]

[ajgeddes]

This reminds me of a time we were driving to Florida. We were heading south in North Carolina and there had been some snow. The sides of the highways were littered with cars, like nothing I have ever seen since, that had slid off of the highway and it looked like a disaster area. Here we were driving at least 120km/h down this highway like it was nothing and there was a steady stream of cars in front of us and behind us ALL from Ontario going to same speed.

[cruisemonkey]

This is my second 'snow day' after a week off for lunar New Year... I love it! Even in Victoria where people panic when it snows (like Vancouver & Seattle), the little bit we've had each morning would not have caused school closures.

[Qinella]

[krats1976]

I wonder if the closures are because everyone's still a bit jumpy after the pre-Christmas storm that shut everything down for 2 or 3 days. I mean, I've never heard of schools closing here for little flurries like today's...