madviking
north american scum
White stuff. School started at 9 and ended at 11.
Random Raves XIV: The Rave of the Century
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CivOtaku
Salmiac lover
WTH? An inch of snow and your school is closed? Over here (in finland) it would probably take at least a meter of snow before we even considered the possibility of closing schools.
Mango Elephant
Deity
The roads were icy. Like, really icy, so no one was about to risk their neck and car to get their kid to school. Neither my mom nor my brother worked today either.
Mango Elephant
Deity
There was a lot of salt on the roads, but it still iced up.
Mango Elephant
Deity
Yeah, and no one here has those handy ice tracks that people up where it snows a lot have. Here you just skiddd and crash, so we just stay inside and read books and play online. We have snowball fights when there's enough snow, unlike today.
MagisterCultuum
Great Sage
Another problem is that in Georgia when it freezes it tends to hover right around the melting point, so that snow and ice melts and refreezes in to the slipperier and harder to black ice.
Also, while many northern cities have fleets of snow plows I think Georgia only has 1 in the whole state.
Apparently Georgia Tech decided to open late today. There was a message that the school would not open until 10am, yet the 8am final exams would continue as scheduled. That makes the late opening completely irrelevant for students, applicable only to faculty. This happened to be the one day I had an 8am final. It really isn't that snowy or icy on campus though. I almost slipped on one little spot of ice on the way to class, but for the most part the ground was just wet and salty.
Also, while many northern cities have fleets of snow plows I think Georgia only has 1 in the whole state.
Apparently Georgia Tech decided to open late today. There was a message that the school would not open until 10am, yet the 8am final exams would continue as scheduled. That makes the late opening completely irrelevant for students, applicable only to faculty. This happened to be the one day I had an 8am final. It really isn't that snowy or icy on campus though. I almost slipped on one little spot of ice on the way to class, but for the most part the ground was just wet and salty.
Where I am from (upstate NY) that is true; but where I live (Northern VA, same as madviking) they are a little fuzzy on the concept of "snow" and panic each time they see it.
In Australia? In the Summer?
Yeah- although we have a bunch of hills, which are way harder to drive on in the snow than flat ground.
Summer is when it usually happens. Hot days with high humidity are quite conducive to hail (it just usually doesn't fall in my district). It's not summer without thunderstorms!
Mango Elephant
Deity
I live near the coast where it's flat, but it's an absolute horror to drive in the frozen hills of Atlanta. There were cars on the side of the road that slid and crashed.
I felt so bad for the people stranded.
madviking
north american scum
Minecraft is like crack. Uggghhhh caaaaan't stooooop plaaaayiiiing.
classical_hero
In whom I trust
Thunderstorms? Hail? What on earth are those?
The thing is you guys are getting the weather we need and the weather you guys need is what we are getting.
Cynovolans
Not in my dimension.
Finally done with Civics project.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
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