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re: Do schools seem to be closing for less severe
Posted on 3/13/16 at 10:35 pm to joeytiger
Posted on 3/13/16 at 10:35 pm to joeytiger
This current crop of public school teachers and administrators are about dead even with jack in the box employees in terms of work ethic, and not much more intelligent; any reason to not show up for work will be jumped at.
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Posted on 3/13/16 at 10:47 pm to joeytiger
Closing for a threat of severe thunderstorms is a new one to me.
Hurricane, OK. Flooding, I get it. It may be windy and rain a bunch, that is new.
The crazy thing about the severe weather a week or so ago was that a lot of businesses chose to shut down at noon and put quite a few people on the road in the worst of it.
Hurricane, OK. Flooding, I get it. It may be windy and rain a bunch, that is new.
The crazy thing about the severe weather a week or so ago was that a lot of businesses chose to shut down at noon and put quite a few people on the road in the worst of it.
Posted on 3/13/16 at 10:51 pm to joeytiger
Yeah, I don't remember remember getting off school because its going to rain a lot a few days in a row.
Posted on 3/13/16 at 11:00 pm to OweO
Yeah, there was only catastrophic flooding across 1/4 of the state... No big deal 
Posted on 3/13/16 at 11:04 pm to joeytiger
I was thinking about this the other day. Don't schools have built in hurricane days every year? Since we didn't have to use any this year maybe they just decided to use them for the severe weather we've been having. I wonder if they would have been more reluctant to cancel if they had a hurricane this past year. frick, I dunno just a thought.
Posted on 3/13/16 at 11:45 pm to joeytiger
You can thank Morris Bart
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Posted on 3/13/16 at 11:51 pm to joeytiger
Maybe so, but this current event isn't the time to bring is up considering the massive flooding across the state. It has been deemed, by the president, a state of emergency
Posted on 3/14/16 at 12:07 am to Dick Leverage
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Heck, I coach football and we have to keep a weather meter that tracks how close a lightening strike was. Anything with 6 miles of the meter and we have to go inside. We can't go back out to practice until 30 minutes has lapsed without lightening detected by the meter.
Sounds like sound logic to me.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 12:15 am to GarmischTiger
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20 years ago we lived in a less litigious society, and one where it was hard to close schools, notification wise.
20 years ago there were plenty lawsuits and schools announced closings via the local news. The young ones here acting like 1996 was some rugged frontier life.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 6:46 am to biglego
There is a whole lot of "Armageddon didn't shut us down back in the day" going on in this thread. School busses on the road with tornado warnings...schools are pussies for cancelling. 24 inches of rain and major flooding...millennials ruin everything. Lightning, we used to play with lightning. Our quarterback was nicknamed Thor! You can't fix crazy or stupid and the OT has its fair share of both.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 7:12 am to jimmy the leg
Yes it shutdown for flooding back when I was in school. It's really bad up here. They made the right call closing schools. My kids are in 4th grade and the only time I had a problem with them closing schools was because it was too cold. "Well some of our students don't have any winter clothes and it's really cold on the busses. So we're closing today because it's 30 degrees." Seriously GTFO. If a parent can't provide their kid with a jacket that can keep them warm for 20 minutes on a bus, they don't deserve to have a child. I went to my kids' school the next day and asked for a list of the kids without a jacket and what size they needed. I'm still waiting on that list and it was 3 years ago. 
Posted on 3/14/16 at 7:31 am to KarlMalonesFlipPhone
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Don't schools have built in hurricane days every year
Yes, they do. Since those weren't used during the hurricane season, they had available days to burn. This, combined with what Paige said about buses being caught in flooded conditions led them to cancel school, in our area at least.
But like everyone else has said, I don't remember school being cancelled for anything less than hurricanes. They made the right call on this one in a lot of those areas that were hit hard however.
This post was edited on 3/14/16 at 7:34 am
Posted on 3/14/16 at 7:35 am to joeytiger
Yeah, but now the teachers can email assignments on weather days.
This topic actually covers numbers 155 and 439 on the list of how things were better in the 80's.
This topic actually covers numbers 155 and 439 on the list of how things were better in the 80's.
This post was edited on 3/14/16 at 7:36 am
Posted on 3/14/16 at 7:39 am to joeytiger
I only remember school closing for hurricanes, but I've also never personally had to worry about flooding. I can remember certain areas getting sent home from school early, or not having to come in because they lived in a low lying area that flooded and buses couldn't get to them. But the whole school wouldn't shut down.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 8:05 am to joeytiger
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Do schools seem to be closing for less severe
I know what you mean. It's not like any flooding has occurred in the past few days.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 8:15 am to cyogi
Holy shite...Hurricane Edith. Nash Roberts must have been wrong on the forecast which is why your arse was in school. I remember first missing school for Hurricane Bob or maybe Anita. It was the mid to late 70's.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 8:19 am to joeytiger
Nah baw. They're just reinforcing climate change.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 8:20 am to joeytiger
Just another effect of the cause of the bacterial lawyers craving to suck some money out of one more party.
No school system wants to take single risk that may cost them milliions and their jobs.
Every commercial should remind you what's wrong with our lives.
No school system wants to take single risk that may cost them milliions and their jobs.
Every commercial should remind you what's wrong with our lives.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 8:20 am to GeorgeTheGreek
Not really. I have coached football since 1989 utilizing common sense. If thunderclouds amass overhead and a strike occurs in close proximity.....you hightail it to shelter. If thunderclouds form close by but not directly overhead, and there are more than one strike close is succession, you hightail it to shelter. That is common sense.
The following conditions are not conducive to "common sense."
Blue skies overhead.
Sun beaming on your skin enough to fry an egg.
Edge of a summer storm a town away.
One strike detected by a meter 5 miles away.
Storm moving away from your vicinity.
That would be the same as you mowing your grass and seeing the edge of a storm off in the distance. Your weather map shows you it is moving past you and not towards you. You happen to see one strike 5 miles or more away and can't even hear thunder in your vicinity. Above you is blue sky and full sun. Yet your reaction is to beeline to shelter.
That is not common sense. That is ignorance of weather.
The following conditions are not conducive to "common sense."
Blue skies overhead.
Sun beaming on your skin enough to fry an egg.
Edge of a summer storm a town away.
One strike detected by a meter 5 miles away.
Storm moving away from your vicinity.
That would be the same as you mowing your grass and seeing the edge of a storm off in the distance. Your weather map shows you it is moving past you and not towards you. You happen to see one strike 5 miles or more away and can't even hear thunder in your vicinity. Above you is blue sky and full sun. Yet your reaction is to beeline to shelter.
That is not common sense. That is ignorance of weather.
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