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Postby Doc Sigma » Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:49 pm

I have a terrible fear of walking across ice, which is made worse by the fact that the road to my bus stop is pretty much one solid sheet of ice from December to February, as are the sidewalks. To help alleviate this, I just purchased a pair of the most expensive boots on ShoeBuy.com.

With my 25% member discount, the price came down to a bit less than I paid for the O&M print.

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Postby Angstwolf » Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:22 pm

We have like a foot of snow, but I'm still in school because the Board of Education waited too long to call it off. The elementary schools are out, though, because they start later in the day than we do.

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Postby KJ Fellie » Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:41 pm

The schools in my area change their minds about ten times before reaching a final decision, so kids just don't bother showing up on snowy days. Icy ones sort of fall into the same category.
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Postby Doc Sigma » Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:34 pm

Several years ago (might have been a decade or more), one night ALL of the news stations were predicting that the snow equivalent of the Perfect Storm was coming, that we would wake up to several FEET of snow. Schools (including mine) all canceled next day's classes THAT EVENING, in advance.

You can... probably guess where this is going.

Woke up the next morning, no snow. At all. Storm went out to sea. But you can't very well "uncancel" classes, so we all enjoyed a day off with truly lovely weather and no shoveling.

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"Uncancelling"

Postby KJ Fellie » Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:04 pm

Woke up the next morning, no snow. At all. Storm went out to sea. But you can't very well "uncancel" classes, so we all enjoyed a day off with truly lovely weather and no shoveling.
We've had the same sort of thing happen, only they did "uncancel" classes. Nobody showed up. (*setgrumblemutter=* "what-the-heck-are-you-talking-about-you-losers you-can't-just 'uncancel' the-*yerf*ing-classes-in-the-middle-of-the-*yerf*ing-day- and-expect-the-*yerf*ing-kids-to-come-in- when-their-parents-have-already-taken-them-to-work-or-gotten-babby-sitters- or-whatever-you-*yerf*ing-idiots..." *endgrumblemutter*)
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Postby Tom Flapwell » Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:06 pm

"Yerf" is the new "smurf."
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Postby Angstwolf » Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:45 pm

Turns out only about half of the students showed for class today. It was pretty much a free day, but I still had to be in school, which isn't particularly fun.

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Postby Arloest » Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:56 pm

Several years ago (might have been a decade or more), one night ALL of the news stations were predicting that the snow equivalent of the Perfect Storm was coming, that we would wake up to several FEET of snow. Schools (including mine) all canceled next day's classes THAT EVENING, in advance.

You can... probably guess where this is going.

Woke up the next morning, no snow. At all. Storm went out to sea. But you can't very well "uncancel" classes, so we all enjoyed a day off with truly lovely weather and no shoveling.
Something similar happened here a couple of years ago. Except it was Hurricane Rita that didn't do anything instead of lack of snow. And it was four days of canceled classes instead of one.

Would have been great if the power didn't go off for God knows what reason.
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Postby CoreyFox » Thu Dec 06, 2007 2:14 am

It snowed this morning, but i still had to go to work. Hopefully, the snow will keep coming so i can't go tomorrow.


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