It was -17° when I crawled out of bed at about 9 a.m. this morning....but the sun is shining bright, and there's only a slight breeze...It ain't too bad out!!! I shoveled the snow and spread a little 'ice melt' yesterday while it was a balmy +11°. The high today is supposed to be -2°.....but the sun is shining bright!
I'm really glad that I don't
have to get out in this to go to work anymore...that always s*cked! I will, however, venture out to the grocery store and to the coffee shop a little later on. It's cold...but hey, it's Winter time! If it were warm and toasty, it would be Summer, right?
Way back when......when I was in grade school, we only had about 1 day off because of snow and/or cold. Of course we weren't 'bused' in either, like kids so often are these days. We just bundled up, and walked....all the horse-play & snowball fights on the way to & from school kept us warm! I don't recall anyone during my 9 years (K-8th), dying from exposure, or getting buried alive in a snow drift, or any other of those type tragedies, on their way to or from school. Maybe kids were just smarter back then, I dunno. They didn't even close the school for the big snow storm of '67 or '68 (whichever it was).....the ones that could make it in, made it, and the ones that weren't able to make it in, didn't....me and all my friends made it in! And, man, did we have some awesome snowball fights enroute!
Now little Johnny and little Sally get bused to school...even though it may only be 2 blocks from their home! Plus, they have to stand out in the cold and snow longer waiting for the dang bus, than it would take them to hoof it to school! And when the weather and/or roads are worse, they have to wait even longer because the buses run late....sooo, I haven't quite figured out the benefit of them busing local neighborhood kids to local neighborhood schools.
