The overnight snow here wasn't as apocalyptic as predicted. At the moment it's snowing very lightly, it's quite mild and the accumulated snow-depth is a measly 15mm at the most. Yes, that's mm not cm. The cars have a light dusting of snow, but they're not iced-up, there having been no overnight freeze.
Even this piddly-farty amount of the fabled white-stuff is enough for the local junior and infant schools to announce that they won't be open today. Less that a mile away from them, however, the local high school is open. How does that work, then?
THE SMALL(ish) PRINT... (updated 23/07/2016)
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We've had 9 cm down here 🙁
9cm? Why, that's very nearly an armful!
🙂
That'll be because the high school kids are taller and can see over the top of the snow drifts?
Are staff allowed to wish for a snow day too????
Yup, and their wishes came true at 11a.m., when the high school closed and parents had to make ad-hoc provision for the unexpected early return of their kids.
It would have saved a lot of hassle to have declared a closure before the start of the schoolday, like the other schools. It's not as if the conditions, and their ongoing deterioration, hadn't been forecast by experts, is it?
@BG! - @BG! - @BG! -
In Ipswich, in 1963, the temperature was below freezing for the whole of February. I was 13, and school was the other side of town. All the kids and all the teachers turned up every day. My class-room was a hut that year. When the heating failed we just put on scarves and gloves and continued working. And my form-master's nickname was Hitler!
Kids today...
John Green, hoping to appear on Grumpy Old Men.
@John Green - Welcome and well-said, John.
I well remember my high-school winters too - I lived in an outlying village several miles from my school, hence I was one of the "bus-kids". In winter, when the bus couldn't reach us, we used to walk to school. I recall having to tunnel through snowdrifts that soared way above our heads, an exercise that was no mean feat when armed with no more than an Adidas bag and a lunchbox. OK, we arrived cold, wet and late, but we enjoyed it. It was comforting to know that the staff had gone through similar ordeals to be there ready for us.
I wish you the best of luck for your impending TV career 🙂
It snowed and London ground to a halt. By the second day buses began to emerge and tiptoe out on to the main routes. The underground is currently back and running, there abouts. Overland trains are still badly affected. In my area the council has not gritted any pavements. After a few days of freeze thaw we now have a good ice layer. Fantastic for crampons. Maybe though it is overkill to put them on to get to Tesco? My next door neighbour is curently housebound, she cannot walk on the ice covered surfaces. So extra shopping trips for neighbours. All this because of a drop of snow. If we had some serious weather, I dread to think of the outcome. As it is, I am hoping it hangs on for a while yet so that I can get away and enjoy the snow.
I reckon snowshoes might be my next purchase. There were plenty of folk using them in the LD a few weeks back, and they were fair racing across the powdery stuff. Possibly overkill for walking the kids to school, though?