We have some winter weather today in my part of the world, so I was cast out of my workplace today shortly after enjoying a delicious bowl of Campbell’s Select Harvest Healthy Request Italian-Style Wedding soup.
Nothing pretty, mind. It’s only been freezing rain everywhere I’ve been today, and I understand it’s considerably more hazardous now than it was when I drove home, shortly after noon. Temperature is supposed to rise 10 degrees or so overnight, so no problems tomorrow.
So the whole family popped popcorn and watched the first two Chronicles of Narnia films again, ahead of seeing the third installment later this month. Cap it off with breakfast for dinner, and it was a delightful little mini-weekend, exactly in the middle of the week.
If you got a similarly unexpected break today, I hope you did something as enjoyable with it.
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I take these non-weather events quite personally, lately. All month, I’ve been looking forward to December 15 because I had cleared my calendar to 1) wrap all my little peoples gifts while they were at school, 2) finish some shopping for my big peoples, and 3) go take my mom out to do some of HER shopping.
Yeah. So, instead of waiting until the day of to decide if schools need to be let out, we have to make the call the afternoon before.
See? I take it personally. I was pissed yesterday, to say the least. In our districts nothing started to even begin to ice over until, when, dark-thirty?
*grumble, grumble, hey you, get the hell off my lawn!*
We have a personable fellow from Kansas City in the office who is experiencing his first Alabama winter. I told him he could expect a good deal of overreaction, and yesterday delivered.
The hair-trigger response is much worse now than it used to be. Of that I am convinced. I don’t doubt that there were some patches of ice late in the day, but normal school and work schedules were eminently doable.
I’m still pissed. And NO when we first moved here 18 years ago, it was nothing like it is now. I also distinctly remember the times as a child in Mississippi where one had to eagerly await the morning to see if there was enough ice to cancel anything. Never was.
We did. Shoveled the driveway, taught a Southerner how to properly craft a snowball, and finished laundry.
I can’t understand the logic that rules cancelling classes. No, I’m not psychic, but nowhere – rural or otherwise – was it bad enough here to close.
Mind, I still have a very Yankee mentality vis-a-vis snowy weather, but get a grip, people!
The thing that gets me is that our local deciders are consistently, always, wrong, when they jump the gun!
I remember once, before the crazy set in, patiently explaining to one of my college students that, “No campus is not closed, and YES we are still having our final as scheduled.” She kept whining, “BUT IT’S SNOWING!” And, I continued patiently trying to explain to her that it might be snowing, but it’s 44 degrees outside and not sticking on the roadways at all. So, we are having school chicka.
Yes. Times have changed.
Mother and I were talking about the time I was in high school and they didn’t get the schools closed in time before the ice storm hit. Unnecessarily putting parents and their children at risk because the school board doesn’t pay attention to the weather forecast creates lots of pissed off people. They do the best they can with the information they’ve got and I’d rather they err on the side of caution.