This is a winter storm warning for your area

[giallarhorn]

It's snowing here (or was- it stopped) and there was a winter storm warning and school closed for today and tomorrow. The funny thing is that it's didn't even snow that much, and it stopped by early afternoon but I suppose after the last fiasco, no one wanted to take any chances. Though I suppose tonight/tomorrow might be a lot worse, but I'm

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[ladymercury_10]

This winter is nuts. Hooray for getting the day off?

[giallarhorn]

Yeah, it doesn't seem to be that bad just looking outside though? But apparently there's a lot of people who are losing power and people are scrambling around trying to deal with it.

Ha, they actually closed school tomorrow as well, so I'll have only gone in for two days. If it keeps it up, they might actually close it Friday as well (or if I can't get my car open again then I'm just not going).

[etoiledunord]

Enjoy your day off! The public school board for my city is always very proud to declare that they've never had a snow day*, which I guess makes sense because Albertans either learn to deal with snow or they move, but I was still always jealous of people who got a day off to go build snowmen and such when I was a kid. ^_^

*By which they meant that there had never been a board-wide closure due to weather. Individual schools were closed on rare occasions, though never mine.

[giallarhorn]

Well, seeing how you're up in Canada I suspect that you're much more used to seeing snow than the government down here is :P My sister has a similar predicament- she's much further north and they've had snow for the last two weeks but they've yet to close any schools. Though according to the news, it isn't so much the snow that's an issue now, but there's just not enough people/it's not warming up.

[tellshannon815]

We've got floods here.

I remember my dad telling me once about a high school near to him where there had been a forecast of heavy snow for the following day and the headteacher took the decision the day before that he would close the school. It didn't snow at all. He got a lot of criticism for that, although Dad did point out that if it had snowed, the same people would have been praising him for his quick action.

[giallarhorn]

Ack, floods are lot worse. Is it just your area or is it actually nearby?

Yeah, after the last fiasco with snow, I feel like the school just decided it'd be better to play it safe and give people a day off rather than have a repeat.

[tellshannon815]

There's problems throughout a lot of the UK. I live at the top of the steepest hill in my town so if I flood the whole town has had it, there is flooding not far from me though.

[giallarhorn]

Ahh, that makes a lot of sense. I was initially thinking in terms of rivers flooding, which tends to be much the case over here.

[giallarhorn]

I'd say that at least they managed to get home (10 miles in a snow storm is a long while to walk) but their car is probably at the bottom of a pile of cars in a snowy ditch D: