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For those of us missing snow days....LOL!

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"THA DOCTA GOT ME ON A LOW FAT DIET I HAVE NEVER FELT BETTER!"

DA Bears, Da Sox, Ditka.

In my dad's language, you don't go "Through the door", you go "Troo da door"

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We get 3 snow days a year. Sometimes we go over, but not often.

Closed for cold once. -25.

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DA Bears, Da Sox, Ditka.

In my dad's language, you don't go "Through the door", you go "Troo da door"

*Visions of Chris Farley in a Bears hat punching his own chest to dislodge the bratwurst.*

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Specializes in School Nursing, Hospice,Med-Surg.
We get 3 snow days a year. Sometimes we go over, but not often.

Closed for cold once. -25.

Hollleeeeeeeeeeeeeeey....whattt?

I would literally freeze my hiney off.

Us GA peeps don't know what that even feels like. I would die. It was 23 yesterday and I had to empty the pool basket. Yep, we don't even bother covering our pool in the winter. After dipping my hand in the pool water I thought my lower arm might freeze off. At 23 degree for about 1 minute in the air.

Yes, I'm a weenie.

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Hollleeeeeeeeeeeeeeey....whattt?

I would literally freeze my hiney off.

Us GA peeps don't know what that even feels like. I would die. It was 23 yesterday and I had to empty the pool basket. Yep, we don't even bother covering our pool in the winter. After dipping my hand in the pool water I thought my lower arm might freeze off. At 23 degree for about 1 minute in the air.

Yes, I'm a weenie.

Its been like 8 the last couple of night and now it is in high 20. What is this warmth?

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Specializes in Home Health,Dialysis, MDS, School Nurse.

Our HIGH temp for this Sunday is -4. :nailbiting:

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Specializes in ED, School Nurse.

We have not cancelled school for cold since I have been here (3 years).

And I live in Maine.

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I love Maine! Lived in Portland for a couple years...

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Specializes in School Nursing, Hospice,Med-Surg.

And I just love a snow day...or 5.

We rarely get them down here and we adore them. I don't think we have them built in because we don't expect them but we find a way to work around them when they happen. When "snowpocalypse" happened 2 years ago in ATL, I think we had 5+ snow days. After the third day the admin found a way for the kids to do some online learning, home learning, and we had zero days to make up. It was awesome!

Of course, an apocalyptic snow for us ATL folks is half an inch of ice with another half an inch of snow on top of that. Panic sets in at that point. Honestly, we can't drive on the stuff.

Buford Callaway describes it better than anyone I know in these parts:

Watch Weekend Update: Buford Calloway on the Atlanta Snow Storm From Saturday Night Live - NBC.com

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Specializes in med-surg, IMC, school nursing, NICU.
Us GA peeps don't know what that even feels like. I would die. It was 23 yesterday and I had to empty the pool basket. Yep, we don't even bother covering our pool in the winter. After dipping my hand in the pool water I thought my lower arm might freeze off. At 23 degree for about 1 minute in the air.

My parents moved down to GA a few years ago and my mom can't believe what her neighbors call "cold." Nothing like a lifetime of winters in the Northeast to toughen you up for a balmy 50 degrees in January down where the peaches grow!

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.

No kids in school anymore and my job as not a school nurse means I get no benefit from snow days, but my school nurse friends hated last year. No real snow days but several "cold" days pushed the end of the school year out by over a week and we live in a district with I think a weeks worth of snow days built into the calendar.

Now for my "back in the day we walked to school in 5 feet of snow, uphill both ways " comment. We really did go to school unless it was a full on blizzard. These cold days are a fairly new development that I happen to agree with. Nobody, especially a child should be out walking or standing around waiting for a bus when the wind chill factors are 40-60 below zero. And yes, we hit a cold spell last winter with actual temps of lower than 30 below. A wind chill of -56 is the coldest I remember offhand. Sadly enough these temps are not quite record breaking for us.

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Specializes in kids.
SNOW in Massachusetts is a dirty word. I don't need a snow day. Nope, nope, nope.

You got HAMMERED last year!

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