*Leaps Joyfully* SNOW DAY!! No school for me :)

[plushie]

I'm really happy right now theres a few inches outside maybe five or six inches as i type, so my brothers and sisters are gonna come with me to make a snowman

later today I might be getting a kitten too, a small gray one about 12 weeks old its so cuuuuuute!

[Paul]

There's no school here, anyway.

It's christmas break.

[Silja]

Well, I'm on my Christmas break also, but I think it really sucks that some people don't even have to go to school when it snows just a tinsy winsy bit outside. I'd have to go there even though there would be 1 metre high heeps of snow everywhere outside!

[Rachel]

it's so weird people talking about snow when it was almost 30 degrees here today

[floella_de_ville]

I wish it would snow here I want to make a snowman.

It snowed one day in the middle of November but it didn't last.

[Rachel]

It snowed one day in the middle of November but it didn't last.

that day was so cool. my housemate phoned her mum all excited about the snow and she was like "yeah, it was on the weatherforcast"... she wasnt as excited as us!

[ahoteinrun]

I don't understand.
What are "snow days"?
I live in Northern Alberta Canada, and i've never had one.
Never had school cancelled because of cold weather either.
So can someone please explain, what constitutes a snow day?

[Twinkle]

It's when it snows so much that school is cancelled.

[ahoteinrun]

Yeah, but who decides "too much?"
I know in some parts of BC (Canada), Victoria mainly... if they get a barely an inch the city shuts down because they just can't function.
Like..
How hard is it to drive in a inch of snow?! Not very.
Blah.
The whole thing doesn't make sense to me.

[Koku]

Yeah, but who decides "too much?"
I know in some parts of BC (Canada), Victoria mainly... if they get a barely an inch the city shuts down because they just can't function.
Like..
How hard is it to drive in a inch of snow?! Not very.
Blah.
The whole thing doesn't make sense to me.

The city might not have the equipment to get rid of the snow, or the amount of snow falling is more than the normal amount. You still have dangers like ice on roads, which is why schools shut down for the day.

[Twinkle]

At my school, they cancel it when it gets so icy it becomes dangerous to travel to school. Also, the heating system breaks easily and it becomes too cold to allow teachers to legally work.

[ahoteinrun]

*feels very albertan now*
Still. Freezing rain, ice on the roads, larger then normal amounts of snow, and cold have never given us a snow day. *Shrugs* But I supposed in some freaky way we're used to it.
And I think... that I like it that way. I know how to drive on ice, and on snow, it's not hard as long as you're not a stupid head and don't do stupid things driving.
*shrugs* But I suppose I was raised in the environment.

But this doesn't mean snow days still don't make sense to me.

[Harmony crystals]

Well it's been a crappy day for me here.....their is school no snow and more work at school....... very nice combonation isn't it?

[Twinkle]

Urgh, the worst is black ice. We had it at the front of our estate, luckily my dad noticed it and spent 15mins driving very slowly around it. Unluckily, as soon as we got past it, a woman behind us didn't see it, skidded and slammed into the back of our car. And that's why the school should have been cancelled...

[Stephy]

We haven't had a snow day in a while.. honestly it's been like 3 years I think. But it usually snows a lot here.. and it was -20 degrees celcius here 2 days ago I was freezing my toes off!