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DaOld Man:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on January 01, 2008, 10:50:33 am ---
A couple weeks?

They never cancelled school for us... we'd get two feet and they would still hem and haw about delaying it an hour or two.  No one would go but they didn't cancel it.

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Yep. Of course your buses probably didnt have to travel 10-15 miles of narrow country roads to pick up all the kids..

ChadTower:

In Canada?  Hell yeah they did.   :laugh2:  The busses just didn't run those days.  If they cancelled school every time we got near a foot of snow we'd have been there until July.

shardian:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on January 01, 2008, 11:36:16 am ---
In Canada?  Hell yeah they did.   :laugh2:  The busses just didn't run those days.  If they cancelled school every time we got near a foot of snow we'd have been there until July.

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Up North, school systems and towns budget for there being snow on the ground all winter. Down here in WV and KY, there just isn't enough money to budget for salt, overtime, etc that is needed to prepare the roads for school buses. One year when I was a kid, our county actually ran out of salt for the salt trucks.

So instead, they just design the school year to include 2 weeks of anticipated snow days.

SirPeale:

--- Quote from: Hockeyboy on January 01, 2008, 10:51:18 am ---How can you live in VT and not have a snowblower??

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Because it's not my house, it's an apartment.  Usually they plow long before they did, but for whatever reason they didn't come until like ten.  Then I'm guessing they saw that it *looked* clear, and took off. 

I called the landlord twice about it.  First time they said likely they just went away and would be back.  Since they also plow the property next door (and had) I doubted it, but waited anyway.  Called again around three pm  because it was bright and sunny by then, and I hadn't seen another plow on the road in a couple hours.  He showed up ten minutes later.

Believe me, when I buy a house, that's on the must-have list of purchases.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shardian on January 01, 2008, 01:33:35 pm ---
--- Quote from: ChadTower on January 01, 2008, 11:36:16 am ---
In Canada?  Hell yeah they did.   :laugh2:  The busses just didn't run those days.  If they cancelled school every time we got near a foot of snow we'd have been there until July.

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Up North, school systems and towns budget for there being snow on the ground all winter. Down here in WV and KY, there just isn't enough money to budget for salt, overtime, etc that is needed to prepare the roads for school buses. One year when I was a kid, our county actually ran out of salt for the salt trucks.

So instead, they just design the school year to include 2 weeks of anticipated snow days.

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They don't budget much, though.  Towns like mine tend to run out of cash by about the third storm.  Last year they weren't plowing or salting or anything the last 6 weeks or so of winter.

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