Here in the Portland area, if the forecast says we might get some sprinkles that won't stick (which is about the "worst" that happens every few years), all the schools close and some businesses do, too.

Quite a contrast to where I grew up - Chicago. Despite the weather there, in my 4 years of HS, my school was only closed one day - when the boiler broke. I'd walk the four blocks to school in snow that was at least 2 feet deep all the time. No biggie.

Yes, in VA. Our county is so huge (how huge is it?), that if it's bad in one part, they have to close if for all, and sometimes it looks downright silly. A few yrs back I lost 19 games due to our snowmageddon!

Here, if the local weather person sees it on radar in an adjoining state the night before, we might as well hang it up. :o They certainly error on the side of caution here.

For this season, I have my only make-up game left tomorrow afternoon.

Fixed it for you. ;)

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It was touch and go whether we'd have school locally -- the wind chill was about -30 last night and when that happens, kids are put in danger standing outside waiting for school buses and many districts close.

We had a snow day area wide on Wednesday, though, so school districts were probably loathe to close -- only 3 districts set a 2 hour delay.

It's still below 0 (it's -3) with a -17 wind chill at 10:30AM. My still wet hair froze between the school and the car last night after about a 200 foot walk.

False alarm: the visitors want to play, the superintendent approved. Game on!

Ah, shaddap.

(Although, there's very little left here after two days of rain and 45 degrees.)

Anyway, I don't know for sure whether it's an actual policy here, but I can't recall ever seeing a day where school was cancelled and the games there that day weren't postponed. I've only lost one date to weather thus far.

Grew up in Alaska...we had one day in my 13 years of school (counting kindergarten, guys) when school was cancelled. Big blizzard blew through and knocked out power on a weekend and the pipes in the school froze. Back in school on Tuesday.

In Washington State, we have had two days already where they have cancelled school. One inch of snow the first time, and the second day was a FORECAST of freezing rain...it never happened but they cancelled anyway. Geesh...

Liability issues say if school is cancelled, all activities must be cancelled also.

Oh, ok. Got it... thanks! :)

Ohio U. had to cancel a game this week because an armed robber was on the loose.

And here, weather in an adjoining state can be A) an indicator of what the weather might be 2 days from now; B) a remnant of what the weather was 2 days ago; or C) completely irrelevant to our weather, past or future.

Carolina's.. 0.5 inches

Kentucky... someone thought about snow.

In Virginia-ese, locally, that would mean "Congress was in session!" ;)

Were you able to pick up something else that night? :D

I was thinking something similar....and he's still in the White House.

Last Friday's games got cancelled locally because 1 inch of snow was forecast for the afternoon. The inch came and the resulting traffic changed my 30 minute commute to about 80 minutes.