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re: We’ve got to stop holding ourselves hostage over a weather advisory!
Posted on 1/9/24 at 8:01 am to bird35
Posted on 1/9/24 at 8:01 am to bird35
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3. Keep schools open and disaster happens leading to the resignation of the Superintendent and the promise to be more careful in the future.
And when has this happened in your long time working in education?
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Posted on 1/9/24 at 8:03 am to TDFreak
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Posted on 1/9/24 at 8:08 am to TDFreak
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Posted on 1/9/24 at 8:18 am to TDFreak
Bitching and blaming the NWS and lawsuits for why our society values human life and has become highly protective of it like no other time in the past partly because tools and information at our disposal are more advanced than ever but still imperfect is quite the take.
Give us your take on food safety next
Give us your take on food safety next
Posted on 1/9/24 at 8:30 am to Roll Tide Ravens
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I can say confidently that the day to day forecasts of reliable sources like the National Weather Service have a much better chance of being correct than the chances of any of us winning the lottery.
Setting the bar kind of low there.
Posted on 1/9/24 at 8:35 am to Bigfishchoupique
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You have te embrace the hysteria. Play ominous music when it rains like the TWC does.
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Posted on 1/9/24 at 8:40 am to minimal
quote:They don’t shut down the whole city and starve everyone because the found salmonella on some raw chicken at the local Albertsons. That’s the equivalency.
Give us your take on food safety next
Posted on 1/9/24 at 8:41 am to TheFonz
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I remember the days when the only 24 hour radar you had was the shitty one on channel 1 or 2 if you had Cablevision, and the only warning you got for a severe thunderstorm was a message scrolling at the bottom of the screen during Price is Right, and if there was a tornado warning you got the blue screen of death with the 60 second tone, followed by a recording that was so scratchy it could hardly be understood.
This post just transported me back to 1983, and it was glorious.
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if there was a tornado warning you got the blue screen of death with the 60 second tone, followed by a recording that was so scratchy it could hardly be understood.
And sometimes the voice on the recording was a woman, who was awful at reading. I always figured it was the weather guy's wife or something.
Posted on 1/9/24 at 8:47 am to TDFreak
It's all about possible litigation. If they don't do it and some kid gets hurt in a weather event or on the roads during an event, the school systems will get sued.
It's what our society has become...
It's what our society has become...
Posted on 1/9/24 at 8:49 am to tide06
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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.
quote:There is an actual state (Mississippi) between Louisiana and Alabama/Florida. What is the acceptable distance for you? There are blizzards happening in New England. Do we close schools in Louisiana for that too?
Y’all just got lucky that it went east.
Posted on 1/9/24 at 8:50 am to TDFreak
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Now, as for the greater issue: We’ve got to stop holding ourselves hostage over these weather advisories. The models are not good enough to make such major decisions!
Posted on 1/9/24 at 8:56 am to OysterPoBoy
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You give teachers the power to make these kinds of decisions and that’s what you get.
You really think that teachers make the call on if school is closed or not?
Posted on 1/9/24 at 8:59 am to Skippy1013
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It's all about possible litigation. If they don't do it and some kid gets hurt in a weather event or on the roads during an event, the school systems will get sued.
It's what our society has become...
100%. I left education a few years ago but I can tell you without a doubt that there are "parents" out there that are looking for a quick payday off of the school system. That's what all of this is about.
Let one kid, and god forbid it be a minority kid, get injured or killed on the bus route during one of these storms and you'll have a nasty lawsuit on your hands.
Posted on 1/9/24 at 9:11 am to tide06
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Good thing they cancelled class or this would’ve been a very bad day in FL.
Night school???
Posted on 1/9/24 at 9:17 am to TDFreak
You can thank our Sue happy society for calls like yesterday. If you can’t understand the liability schools take on when they’re releasing buses of children during inclement weather and I don’t know what to tell you.
You’re the same person who would be here making threads if they didn’t cancel shite and something horrible happened
You’re the same person who would be here making threads if they didn’t cancel shite and something horrible happened
Posted on 1/9/24 at 9:19 am to TDFreak
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And this was predicted to come after 9pm for a long time. So why did several places shut down at noon or all day even?
Well, considering that it hit twice in St. Tammany, with some of the worst at 5-6, I'd say shutting down a few hours early turned out to be a smart move.
Parts of 190 had more water than I'd ever seen on it and some side streets were flooded for a while. There are areas the busses probably would have had trouble getting to.
Posted on 1/9/24 at 9:39 am to Fachie
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Means less people driving too slow with their flashers on.
It was absolutely wonderful driving home yesterday evening! Apparently, a lot of people were released from work early for the "bad" weather.
Posted on 1/9/24 at 9:45 am to Skippy1013
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It's all about possible litigation. If they don't do it and some kid gets hurt in a weather event or on the roads during an event, the school systems will get sued.
Well and you don’t want to be in a situation where kids are on buses in a severe weather situation anyway.
We saw this in Henryville, Indiana (across the river from me) about 10 years ago. They had a massive one hit and they had a bus that had to turn around and come back to the school mid-storm. Made it back just in time so no kids on the bus died but it was very close to being a multi casualty incident.
This was a bus that a driver abandoned mid-storm (no kids on it).
Posted on 1/9/24 at 9:58 am to TDFreak
Are they using these days as "digital learning days", where the kids don't need to go to school due to weather but still have remote assignments? Or are they just straight up cancelling school?
If the former, it kind of makes sense. Why jeopardize safety when the kids can do the same work at home for a day?
If the former, it kind of makes sense. Why jeopardize safety when the kids can do the same work at home for a day?
Posted on 1/9/24 at 10:21 am to JiminyCricket
quote:The people making the call were teachers at one time or another.
You really think that teachers make the call on if school is closed or not?
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