QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 5, 2013 -> 08:17 AM)
See the "wussification of America thread" in the Buster for your answer.
When I was a kid, it had to actually, you know snow ... about 10+ inches for schools to be closed. In my ENTIRE K-8 "career", school was canceled 2 times because of snow. Today, the sheer possibility of snow cancels school...for a measly 6 inches...or 3 now.
Ridiculous.
And don't give me that, "when I was a kid" crap either...this isn't some absurd example of having to walk uphill (somehow), both ways in a blizzard. This is schools being canceled before snow even begins falling, despite it only being 6 measly inches.
Yup. We'd wait to hear on school cancellation when 6 inches had already landed by 7am - no dice. It had to be a blizzard or -20 something windchill.