Let It Snow (Pretty Please?)
As I write this, the local media is whipping itself up into a freaked-out frenzy about an impending snowstorm set to hit my area tonight. You know what I’m talking about (cue ominous music here): “We interrupt this look at the latest Spear family faux pas to bring you this special report on Snowstorm ’08. Stay tuned for the latest up-to-the-minute information on the major weather event heading our way, etc., etc.” Like all the kids (and teachers?) praying for no school tomorrow, I’m hoping that the meteorologists (that would be weather guys to you and me) are right this time, so life as I know it, at least for tomorrow, will be cancelled. Oh dear snow gods, please give us enough of the white stuff so that no one is inconvenienced or injured, but that I can stay home from work and shrug off all my obligations, guilt-free. Don’t get me wrong: I love my job. But I also like the once-in-a-while chance to have to stay home. And I know I am not alone in enjoying the enforced do-nothingness of a snow day, the chance to step off the treadmill, throw out the schedules, and sleep in a bit with no agenda. Indeed, if my snow prayers are answered, my plans are modest ones: to catch up on my magazines, clean some closets, cook, watch lots of junky TV, and just chill out with those people and canines who share my address, DNA, and/or last name.
Just curious: what do people in warmer parts of the country do to get their equivalent of snow days?
And fellow snow region folk: what are your favorite things to do on snow days with the kids?
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The southern regional equivalent of a snowstorm is a hurricane, or if we're "lucky", just a tropical storm.
I do remember when I lived up north and had 2 elementary school-aged children. The best snowdays were those in which they cancelled school the night before. On the other hand, when we had to wait until the morning and listen on the radio to those endless lists of school closings/delays to find out if school would be in session, we had been up for hours already! So, by 10am, everyone was bored. At least when you know the night before that there's no school the next day, you can sleep in the following morning.
I live in San Antonio and we don't have snow. But once a year, we have rain and freezing weather. Usually only lasts a couple of days, but the CITY SHUTS DOWN! All of the highways, all of the municiple buildings, the air force and army bases, EVERYTHING shuts down. Turns out, the city doesn't have ice trucks, because it wouldn't be cost effective to have them for only one day a year. It's just cheaper to shut down the city.
I live in the middle of Alabama. Here we never know if we will have a winter with snow or without snow. We always hope that the weatherman is right when he says snow, but mostly it's snowflakes but no accumulation. We haven't had a good snow/ice storm here since 1996. When we do have snow, we usually sleep late, play on the ice, throw snow, and then drink hot chocolate.
Since snow is not a yearly occurence, our town is like San Antonio, we shut down. Some bigger company stores will try to be open, but half of the workers usually "can't" make it in(too much snow you know...) It's really great for life outside of the house to stop so that you can too.
I want snow........
Hi All, I hear you guys! I SO totally wanted that snow storm...and we didn't even get one flake (see my post of the following day, "Thanks a Lot, Snow Gods"!). Give me any good weather abnormality—provided no one is hurt—'cause I love the chance to temporarily suspend my life and chill every so often. Thanks for reading! Cheers, Laurie
I need some snow here in Kentucky!!!! Not just this dust of half an inch.
I need about I dont know, uh, lets say a foot. My kids have never built a really good snowman or a snow fort! It would be great for them. Come on snow!!!