re: Severe weather threat Today, the 31st

3 minutes of hail around 6:00 am in Villa San Jorge'. BIG hail too.

Dang man, Denham?

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the children need as much school as they can get

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The quantity of the schooling != the resulting intelligence thereof unfortunately. Otherwise La'Darius IV and Quaneshia would be a Rhodes scholars graduating high school at 21.

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On the flip side, I get the perspective of school systems. If they put buses on the road during severe storms and an accident happens, they’ll be held liable for it. If a tornado hits a school during a school day and students are hurt or killed, they’ll be held liable for it, particularly if they had the opportunity to close or dismiss early.

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Low probability high consequence event. Working in the offshore industry, with two private met services on contract to refine site forecasts, haven’t seen one yet that was 100% accurate.

Only takes one busted forecast with severe damage to change your perspective on weather awareness and associated ambiguity.

We got a Tornado warning at 6 am in Lowndes county , specifically about two miles from my house , but haven’t been out to see if any damage . Glad it’s over

Car flooding out? I don’t think think one can sue for that. They can, but won’t win. People who drive to work have flooded out. We worked through a tropical storm years ago and office didn’t close. One employee’s car flooded on way home and a couple others had to park and walk home. That’s the year I started taking care of me and deciding when I needed to leave. Not the office deciding.

nothing like a weather thread, than to have the same mouth breathers come in bitching about schools and

marked safe from morning commute

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see both sides of the school argument. I get that it can be a massive inconvenience for parents. I think it can also be argued that a lot of kids would actually be safer at their school during a tornado than they would be at home. On the flip side, I get the perspective of school systems. If they put buses on the road during severe storms and an accident happens, they’ll be held liable for it. If a tornado hits a school during a school day and students are hurt or killed, they’ll be held liable for it, particularly if they had the opportunity to close or dismiss early. In the Deep South, I think a lot of school systems were impacted by the Enterprise High School tragedy that occurred on March 1, 2007 in Enterprise, AL (southeast Alabama). The school took a direct hit from an EF-4 tornado during a school day and eight students were killed. I was still in public school then and I feel like that was when dismissing early or closing schools due to the weather became more common.

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I hate to continue this endless debate but I think what Spann has proposed (and he may have gotten the idea from somebody else I can't remember) is closing schools but leaving 1-2 county schools open for those who live mobile homes or otherwise not great situations have a relatively safe place to go where they'll be supervised

As to Enterprise Spann also adamantly believes if they had sent those kids home way more ppl/kids would've passed away due to the prevalence of mobile homes in the area and the unsupervised kids that would have resulted. A side of the story that's rarely talked about

Of course all of this is due to liability and lawsuit culture which is a plague upon this nation