While we're on the topic, when did we turn into such a nation of wusses?
I was born and raised in central Michigan, home of lake effect snow. Started school in 1955, graduated high school in 1968. I can only remember school being cancelled entirely once, for the blizzard of 1967 when we literally had to climb out a window to shovel the snow away from the doors.
Other than that, maybe a half-dozen or so early dismissals for snow in the years I spent going to school in Clinton County from K through 12.
We rode the school bus and it was routine for the driver to ask us all to move to the rear of the bus to put more weight over the rear wheels so he could bust drifts on the bus route.
There was a couple of grain scoops behind the rearmost seats, and a couple of times us bigger kids would bale out the emergency back door with them and shovel us out of a situation. At least once, I walked to the nearest farm to ask the farmer to bring his tractor and pull us out.
Occasionally, we'd be late, but we went to school!
A couple of weeks ago, here in Maine, there was an article in the paper about parents being ticked off at the local superintendent for NOT calling off school because of snow. We'd gotten all of about 3 inches...
What are we teaching our kids? Do they really think their boss is going to be okay with them missing work every time the ground turns white?
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