Harry P. Posted January 27, 2014 Author Posted January 27, 2014 Antioch, Illinois got another 3+ inches. My brother-in-law says he's coming to Vegas as soon as possible. He's getting sick of the cold... The forecast says the "high" tomorrow will be 6º below zero... the low Monday night will be (drumroll please)... 20º BELOW ZERO! That's not "wind chill," folks, that's good old fashioned temperature (or lack of it!). Add in the wind chill and you come up with really really cold. Hey Al Gore... where's that "global warming" when we need it?
Craig Irwin Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 Just looked at the weather map, by Tuesday this cold front will be south of the Rio Grande, well down into Mexico!
Joe Handley Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 I had a couple different customers today who ended up getting texts from their kids' schools while I was helping them, sounds like some of the Chicago area schools are calling if off for cold weather..........again. I just hope we don't close early again, I can't afford to lose any more hours to this sh..........tuff.
Harry P. Posted January 27, 2014 Author Posted January 27, 2014 I had a couple different customers today who ended up getting texts from their kids' schools while I was helping them, sounds like some of the Chicago area schools are calling if off for cold weather......... Yep, CPS has already decided no school tomorrow.
Craig Irwin Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 The poor kids will be in school all summer to make up all of the snow days!
Harry P. Posted January 27, 2014 Author Posted January 27, 2014 The poor kids will be in school all summer to make up all of the snow days! Poor babies!
Ramfins59 Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 Of course I'm going back a few years, but I don't remember schools being closed for ANYTHING other than holidays, weekends and summer. They NEVER closed for cold weather that I can remember...... but...... that was waaaaay back in the 50's & '60's. Maybe if it snowed so much that the school buses couldn't run or teachers couldn't drive then they might have closed. Personally, in H.S. I lived on the same block as the school (Bronx, NY) and walked to school no matter what the weather was doing. Times certainly have changed.
Harry P. Posted January 27, 2014 Author Posted January 27, 2014 Of course I'm going back a few years, but I don't remember schools being closed for ANYTHING other than holidays, weekends and summer. They NEVER closed for cold weather that I can remember...... but...... that was waaaaay back in the 50's & '60's. Maybe if it snowed so much that the school buses couldn't run or teachers couldn't drive then they might have closed. Personally, in H.S. I lived on the same block as the school (Bronx, NY) and walked to school no matter what the weather was doing. Times certainly have changed. Agreed! I was talking to a friend of mine about this exact subject a bit earlier today. I don't remember ever having school closed due to cold. I lived in the city (Chicago) and we didn't have buses. There was no such thing as riding a bus to school. We walked. And we walked home for lunch, and back to school after lunch. No in-school lunch program. We are getting soft as a society!
High octane Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 School buses??? Back in the 50's & 60's I had to hike to school and back home as well. It didn't matter what the weather was.
Joe Handley Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 A friend and co-worker of mine is taking classes at Wabanse Community College and found out they will be closed tomorrow about a hour ago. We left our store about 6pm and the drive kinda sucked for me in the Jeep driving from St.Charles to West Chicago, but driving his lowered 2wd '07 Silverado back to Virgil/Maple Park was worse. His Mom works at the Meijer across the street and left there at 8:30pm.............her drive back to their home in her ZR-2 S-Blazer apparently really sucked.
slusher Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 Agreed! I was talking to a friend of mine about this exact subject a bit earlier today. I don't remember ever having school closed due to cold. I lived in the city (Chicago) and we didn't have buses. There was no such thing as riding a bus to school. We walked. And we walked home for lunch, and back to school after lunch. No in-school lunch program. We are getting soft as a society! I didn't have to walk home for lunch but I walked to and from school in some real cold weather when I was a kid in Chicago. Tonight we are going to have 6 below or lower wind chill here in the south and I tell everyone this normal weather when I was a kid...
disabled modeler Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 Its -23 here with the wind chill factor...no school today for the kiddies. I can remember walking to school in knee deep snow and blowing winds about 10 blocks.
slusher Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 I remember those walks and snowball fights...
ranma Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 What"s the S word? Siberia? i'd swear I saw a polar bear go by. this polar vortex is a very cold pain in the ***
tubbs Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 our schools closed this morning, that is our final day we can use. tomorrow it's going to be twice as bad... I cant say anything that has not already been said, but "SOFT" ain't the word for it. this is what really gets my goat. the call came to cancel school at 5:45 AM this morning, at 6:00 AM, my 12 year old got a text that one of his friends will be going sled riding today, and his mom will be taking them..... she is the FIRST one to complain that the schools should be closed and this weather isn't fit for a child to wait for a bus and go to school....... really? then she will complain that the kids have no summer break because they have to make up days.
von Zipper Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 We are living in a lawyered up society. We live way back in the woods, on a secondary road, which means the county does not plow our road for a day or two after a good snow. I used to plow my driveway and continue down our road about a mile to the paved road, it took me about three passes to clear the road as shown Two winters ago I was plowing the road when a county road commission supervisor flagged me down and started yelling at me-threated to call the police and have me fined for plowing a public road. My family attorney told me there are two things you don't want to know how they are made-Laws and Sausage I think they are both made with the same recipe.
von Zipper Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 Just finished up shoveling and boy am I tired! I still up to my kester in this stuff. That is FUNNY- In a sick and twisted way.........
disabled modeler Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 We live way back in the woods, on a secondary road, which means the county does not plow our road for a day or two after a good snow. I used to plow my driveway and continue down our road about a mile to the paved road, it took me about three passes to clear the road as shown Two winters ago I was plowing the road when a county road commission supervisor flagged me down and started yelling at me-threated to call the police and have me fined for plowing a public road. My family attorney told me there are two things you don't want to know how they are made-Laws and Sausage I think they are both made with the same recipe. If that would happen to me if I had a plow...Id tell him OK then you get it done then. I completely agree with you about the laws and sausage only the sausage makes more sense most of the time.
mrindy77 Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 It was -18 with -41 wind chill this morning. No school. I never remember school closings either...but the country was much less litigous.
Danno Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 (edited) Two winters ago I was plowing the road when a county road commission supervisor flagged me down and started yelling at me-threated to call the police and have me fined for plowing a public road. Of course he yelled at you! (1) You probably did a much better, more efficient and cost-effective job than his employees would have. (2) Gotta protect those govmint employee union jobs! Edited January 27, 2014 by Danno
Rob Hall Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 (edited) Hmmm...trying to remember if I had any snow days as a kid in E. Ohio in the '70s-early 80s...IIRC, we did during the Blizzard of '78...that was a big deal. I usually rode to school w/ my Dad (he was the superintendent) but I did ride the bus occasionally. But in the Florida Keys in high school, we did have one day where school was cancelled when the temps dipped below 45 and they cancelled school. Edited January 27, 2014 by Rob Hall
High octane Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 Temps that dipped below 45 degrees? Oh NO!!!
Rob Hall Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 Temps that dipped below 45 degrees? Oh NO!!! IIRC, my high school in Florida didn't have heat...
Tom Geiger Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 Today it was in the 40s here near Philadelphia. As I got home, all the snow was melting and the roads and sidewalks were all wet. Tonight it's going back to the low teens. Figure it will be amateur night at the ice rink!
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