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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2015 9:38:08 GMT -6
It was the sixties BB.. Most likely I went home and went sledding afterwards anyhow.... LOL, Gettin old ain't we? Yeah but staying indoors was like prison in those days.. Tv wasn't geared towards us so much and video games were in the future.. |
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Post by dog on Jan 7, 2015 9:51:27 GMT -6
I went to school in the 60's and the 70's and I don't remember school getting called off more than a handful of times during my school years. Granted, that was 40-50 years ago, and my recollection might be a bit fuzzy.
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Post by dumdave on Jan 7, 2015 11:21:44 GMT -6
After ten yrs old, I was a bus person out off Oakley Ave B-4 the school was built. I went to Nothlawn. It was cold waiting for that bus. But a lot of town kids had a long walk to school.
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Post by OutlawwithaSnipeSniper on Jan 7, 2015 12:57:09 GMT -6
I went to school in the 60's and the 70's and I don't remember school getting called off more than a handful of times during my school years. Granted, that was 40-50 years ago, and my recollection might be a bit fuzzy. Your recollection isn't fuzzy. We never ever got cancelled for temperatures, only for impassable roads, which meant they actually had stuck buss's out there. I can remember more than once setting waiting for the county to come pull us out of the ditch ( grade school days ). |
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Post by dumdave on Jan 7, 2015 13:52:33 GMT -6
WSPL web site looks like all the schools in our area are closed today. I too, never remember a COLD DAY off. Snow Days only.
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Post by helencrump on Jan 7, 2015 14:38:34 GMT -6
I do think memories become fuzzy over the years.
Thinking back, i recall not only school closings, but businesses also. And people being snowed in.
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Post by OutlawwithaSnipeSniper on Jan 7, 2015 14:53:36 GMT -6
I do think memories become fuzzy over the years. Thinking back, i recall not only school closings, but businesses also. And people being snowed in. Oh yea, 77/78 and 78/79 Blizzards......... didn't matter what your business was, you weren't going ANYWHERE. We were a week before we got out to the road....... It was kind of cool though, you could walk the drift right over the house. But I can tell you we didn't lose 5 days of school from K-12. I really don't mind them closing schools though, it really isn't worth taking the chance of getting a bus full of kids hung out. |
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Post by roman on Jan 7, 2015 14:56:36 GMT -6
You are lucky that you don't live in the Lake Michigan "snow belt." We started for Florida this morning and returned home after driving a couple of miles. The blowing snow reduced visibility to around fifty feet. As for tomorrow, the weather boys are saying:
"In general, 6 to 12 inches of snow is forecast to fall from the heaviest snow near the lakes, creating major travel disruptions."
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Post by toshiko on Jan 7, 2015 16:30:54 GMT -6
I remember snow days and businesses closing, but not because of the cold. Only because of the snow.
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Post by toshiko on Jan 7, 2015 17:06:23 GMT -6
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Post by OutlawwithaSnipeSniper on Jan 7, 2015 17:06:52 GMT -6
You are lucky that you don't live in the Lake Michigan "snow belt." We started for Florida this morning and returned home after driving a couple of miles. The blowing snow reduced visibility to around fifty feet. As for tomorrow, the weather boys are saying: "In general, 6 to 12 inches of snow is forecast to fall from the heaviest snow near the lakes, creating major travel disruptions." They figure if you can afford the property taxes, you can afford the Audi A8 AWD to get around......... J/K  |
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Post by Anonymous on Jan 8, 2015 8:59:08 GMT -6
Interesting to note that today Allen-Otter Creek Elementary, Ransom, Deer Park Elementary, Fieldcrest School Dist., Wenona, Toluca & Minonk, and Lostant Elementary are all open while the rest of the schools are closed because of the temperatures. So, do smaller & more rural school districts raise sturdier kids? |
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Post by seaturtle43 in hostile forum on Jan 8, 2015 9:02:04 GMT -6
Oh yea, 77/78 and 78/79 Blizzards......... didn't matter what your business was, you weren't going ANYWHERE. We were a week before we got out to the road....... It was kind of cool though, you could walk the drift right over the house. But I can tell you we didn't lose 5 days of school from K-12. I really don't mind them closing schools though, it really isn't worth taking the chance of getting a bus full of kids hung out. I think you nailed it there Sniper. When the actual temperature is double digits below zero, it is just brutal on all things living and mechanical. Why take the risk if you can just add a day in the Spring. This kind of cold really could be deadly in a pretty short time. Yep I remember them. Our horses were stuck in the barn , couldn't see the pasture fences, a few posts here and there is all where the snow dipped down. My sister and I had those wide plastic skis so we had lovely drifts to TRY to perfect our technique (lol, most of time we ended on our butts sliding the rest of the way ) That picture that circulates around facebook that shows the narrow country road going through a tall tunnel of snow? That's exactly hpw it looked on many country roads. I remember our township and county using backhoes to get the roads open in many areas ( I'm from Putnam county) It stayed cold and so the snow got hard and crusty, we could walk over everything only sinking a few inches. My sister and I dug out snow forts and tunnels. We had a blast! Now, I don't even want to open the door lol. Must be getting old. |
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Post by super on Jan 8, 2015 9:03:35 GMT -6
Oh yea, 77/78 and 78/79 Blizzards......... didn't matter what your business was, you weren't going ANYWHERE. We were a week before we got out to the road....... It was kind of cool though, you could walk the drift right over the house. But I can tell you we didn't lose 5 days of school from K-12. I really don't mind them closing schools though, it really isn't worth taking the chance of getting a bus full of kids hung out. I think you nailed it there Sniper. When the actual temperature is double digits below zero, it is just brutal on all things living and mechanical. Why take the risk if you can just add a day in the Spring. This kind of cold really could be deadly in a pretty short time. I was in Rockford in those years...couldn't get out of the driveway with 3 feet of snow...some of the main roads were kind of plowed, but you couldn't get out of your subdivision to get to work! Also, we found if you could get somewhere, you may not make it back home due to drifting roads. Temps were -25 to -30 range without wind chill...we were darn lucky the power didn't go out, because few had generators in the 1970s |
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Post by dumdave on Jan 8, 2015 10:50:54 GMT -6
A long time ago, Job posted some old pix of men clearing Oakley Ave w/ horses pulling plows. The snow on either side of the road looked to be at least 12' high. That must have been pretty brutal work.
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