re: We’ve got to stop holding ourselves hostage over a weather advisory!

Things seem to have gotten hairy in a lot of places. There are radar indicated tornadoes some places.

They just happened later and further east than us.

Nothing says accurate like getting waken up at 2 am during the week on a hurricane advisory that would supposedly hit Baton Rouge 7 days out!

Hopefully, the kid that looks like he is a freshman in a high school that works for WBRZ can do a better job than the prior meteorologist.

There is another one that looks like he is a Junior or senior in high school that works for them as a meteorologist also.

A member of my extended family teaches in an EBR public school. The weather is just one of the things that they will use.

She says a high percentage of teachers regularly take Friday's off, and what's more students have started doing the same....just, because.

Soon they'll start "opting out".

Our schools sent our bike riding kids home in a Tornado Watch around 4pm yesterday. My son called and asked me to pick him up. I told him to get his butt home and stop whining.

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It does border on the ridiculous at times. I was living in New Jersey about 10 years ago and the media had news crews out all over "preparing" us all for the monster of snow storms....a blizzard for the record books. In the end it was about 5 inches of snow which for the area was more than manageable. Local authorities were shutting down everything. People were urged to stay home, take extraordinary precautions, etc.

My neighbor who was in his 70s at the time was laughing and disgusted. He had called it the night before. He said that if we got more than 6 inches he would be surprised and the area could easily handle it with no problems to any vital services. After a foot is when you start having problems.

It was silly, grocery stores were overrun....lines and shortages by 3 pm. The local Wegmann's was out of bread and ground meat as well as bottled water just to name a few items.

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g ourselves hostage over a weather advisory! by Havoc
The weather was pretty severe at the time when school would have normally gotten out.

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I don't think you know the definition of severe

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1. Close schools, weather is not bad, parents complain. 2. Keep schools open, weather is not bad and everyone congratulates themselves in good decision making. 3. Keep schools open and disaster happens leading to the resignation of the Superintendent and the promise to be more careful in the future. 4. Close schools, weather is not bad, parents complain………

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Yep

You give teachers the power to make these kinds of decisions and that’s what you get.

If we let nurses decide when hospitals were open we’d all be dead.

There were tornadoes all over Mobile and the FL panhandle from Pensacola to 30A and Panama City, some of them long track super cells which might’ve tracked from the gulf all the way to GA.

There’s severe damage to PCB, Lynn Haven and parts north with other damage possible as the sun comes up to allow for damage assessments.

Many of those storms hit right when busses would’ve been running to take children to school.

Good thing they cancelled class or this would’ve been a very bad day in FL.

Y’all just got lucky that it went east.

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Kids there’s going to be tornadoes today. Stay in your trailers. Do not come to this large brick building.

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Last round hit when they would’ve been in school buses or vehicles on their way to school.