civilization in Connecticut ending today - snow expected

[NewJeffCT]

it might snow this afternoon here in CT and the frenzied media is telling us to stock up on supplies in case we're stranded in the wilds of suburban Connecticut for months on end. Over 100 towns in the state have canceled school for the day when snow isn't even supposed to start until lunchtime at the earliest - if it happens at all. Maybe we should run out to the local wal-mart to buy guns in case we need to hold off the eventual ravening hordes of wolves, bears and flesh-eating zombies.

[kwassa]

1. they haven't stripped the stores of toilet paper and milk?

That is what has happened around here.

We have only cold rain, though. I wanted a snow day, too.

[yellowdogintexas]

2. y'all must have been invaded by a bunch of Southerners; Texas gets these for heavy frost warnings

or even the potential of snow flurries. Sometimes we get them for rain, when we have had a long drought. Thought you guys were tougher than that and that you have better road crews.


LOL down here some of the road crews are some guys in the flatbed of a 4X4 pickup with salt shakers.

[MissMillie]

3. I'm in southern Worcester County, MA

and they didn't close schools up here, but they did annouce a bunch of early dismissals.

[NewJeffCT]

4. CT has become wimpy these past 20 years

when I was in school in the 70s and 80s, we would actually have to have 3-4" of snow on the ground before they would consider canceling school... and, to cancel school before a flake is even on the ground was unheard of.

[Pale Blue Dot]

5. Actually, they were right to cancel school.

Based on the forecast, the snow is supposed to start any minute now, and then get extremely heavy around 1:00. If school was in session, that would mean an early dismissal right at the time that the storm was at it's heaviest. So at the exact time that commuters are leaving work early, school buses will be shuttling kids back and forth across increasingly dangerous streets.

While I agree that we all tend to over-dramtize snow, why put kids lives at risk? To prove we're macho? Better safe than sorry as far as I'm concerned.

[sarge43]

6. What you said.

I used to drive a school bus. Getting the little heathens home during an ice or snow storm is a life experience you don't want to repeat. I went through many changes of underwear.

[DS1]

8. Really?

Did you actually relieve yourself or is that just a little hyperbole?

[sarge43]

12. Mostly hyperbole, but once

I did lose bladder control going sideways down an icy lumber road. That's when I decided to quit; I was running out of luck.

[NewJeffCT]

9. the forecasts I heard

said starting around noon and getting heavier later in the afternoon until the early evening. Plenty of time for a half day, if necessary.

It's not about being macho - it's about not wanting to go to school in July because school was canceled without a flake of snow on the ground.

[DS1]

7. Amazingly silly, isn't it?

The plows will clear whatever shows up tonight by tomorrow, yet people are stocking up for a nuclear winter.

There will be no steak, soap, shitpaper, snacks or sereal(sic) on the shelves tonight, series!

[unsavedtrash]

10. You should see the masses when there is snow expected in Alabama

At least my part of Alabama. People FREAK out.
Schools close with if there is an inch or so of snow.
We must have bread and milk. We must have bread and milk.
Insanity.

[LynzM]

11. Friggin' ridiculous, isn't it?

My daughter is amongst those w/out school today... snow's not even supposed to start until at least 3 p.m., in our part of the state. Oy.