Winter Angst
 

Do the schools in your area have a "no school, no after school activities" policy?

Third day of cancelled games this week. :mad: It is typical for schools to close due to snow and dangerous roads in the morning. Alas, by the afternoon or evening, everything is plowed and salted -- quite safe.

I'm noticing some schools starting to vary from the policy of "no school, no after school activities." That sure would rescue the AD's and assigners from the bind they get into every January and February due to rescheduling gymnastics.

Is this an issue in your area?

(Florida contributors need not answer . . . :o )

That seems to be the normal policy all over the place here. Maybe that is not the case with the private schools as much but if the visiting team cancels school, we usually will not play the game if weather was the reason for school not being in session.

Peace

Don't know if it's an issue, but a number of schools (including the one hosting my game for tonight) are closed today. Second game I've lost this season.

The area I'm in now doesn't do this. I always disliked it because we'd have school on days of basketball games that would have been cancelled otherwise.

Here is no school, no game. I have lost two this week and four total. I got two back on the reschedules but since I work quite a bit, I usually don't get them back.

Picked up an extra section game this morning so that will help offset the loss of the other dates.

It's like baseball and softball in the spring. Schedule a lot of game and you know some aren't going to be played. It's life.

(Knocking on wood)

I haven't lost a game yet this year for weather and no schools in the immediate area have even been out of school for weather yet this school year.

I don't know if any schools around here actually have a written policy that they won't play if there is no school. Most of the rural schools won't play if they don't have school because the roads are still bad in the evening. A lot of the time the suburban and city schools will go ahead and play even if they weren't in school if the roads get cleared in time.

What the hell is a snow day?

:D

Depends where you are, some places it takes 2 feet of snow, others 2 inches.

Haven't had any of my games postponed/canceled in the Twin Cities yet due to weather, but then again we've only really had one major snowstorm (and that was on a Sunday, so there weren't any games that day anyway). But yeah, the same policy applies: no school due to weather, no games that evening.

Imagine every school in a given district having to cancel school due to a gas leak....

Yes. I thought that was the norm for public schools.

Michigan

Texas

And because Texas uses sand to keep the roads from being slippery. Funniest thing I heard when the Super Bowl was in Dallas a few years ago. ;)

Peace

What the he11 is snow? :D

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. ;)

Wind chill
 

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.

I did not grow up in Chicago, but most of my high school years, we did not have a roof that was in working order for about 2 of those years (I attended a school in Missouri one year). And yes that included the winter time. Still had school on a regular basis while wearing winter coats.

Peace

Not quite... I've seen districts cancel for only a few inches.

I always chuckle when I see all the schools in the area closed for weather... and the evening news showing all the kids at the mall instead. If they could drive or be driven to the mall, surely they could have made it to school. (/soap)

I don't disagree (grew up in PA). But here, and in this day and age, if the officials didn't close the schools, and a school bus, g_d forbid, slid off the road and children were injured or worse, it would be a very, very bad thing.......

And More Snow On the Way the Next 3 Days
 

Update...
Games today cancelled 1 hour before start (Grrrrrr :mad:), which makes 4 out of 5 dates snowed out this week.
Again, glad I'm not an AD or assigner. This is gonna mess the scheduling up royally.
At least I can watch Phil on the Scottsdale TPC #16. No snow there thus far today.
Rut, keep some of this stuff over there, will ya???

Been hopping!
 

Agreed. Just finished my last "snow make-up game." A Sat afternoon VG matinee. Long week......