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Snow closings are flurrying in
By [email protected] on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 2:29pm
Arlington and Lexington have already announced schools are closing between 10AM and noon tomorrow, 19-Dec. What towns are next?
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School closings just aren't the same without Gary LaPierre
Pahkcah02 remembers the ritual when she was growing up in Stoughton:
French Toast
MY WIFE reports hearing someone referencing the alert system on the radio today. Knowing her listening habits, perhaps WTTK (but possibly WROR or WODS.)
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
What?!
I find it really odd that schools close on the mere idea that a storm could occur. What gives?
Always remember the 13th of December
As somebody whose wife and kid spent six hours getting from Mass. Eye and Ear to Roslindale that day (with me then spending another hour or so digging out the car where they left it down the hill and getting it up the hill), I'm all in favor.
History repeats itself
Because last year at this time a very similar storm stranded kids at schools because their parents couldn't get there to pick them up. At my daughter's school, they canceled after school and called all the parents who used it. One kid was stuck at the school (with the Principal) until 7 at night.
It's safer and easier to plan for if they just let us know ahead they're closing the school. Then we get to stay home too.
The snowstorm of December 13th, 2007:
I firmly believe that thebiggest reason why things go so messed up and that so many people failed to get home until 7, 8, 9, or 10 at night is the fact that so many many people were stupid enough to drive to work or wherever else they were going, instead of taking public transportation as the forecasters and traffic update people advised. Seriously...driving to wherever when a big storm was predicted was well beyond stupid. I don't blame the schools or businesses at all. People were to blame...for their own stupidity.
I had an afternoon appointment to which I took the MBTA, then walked a bit to where I was headed. I ended up not getting home until dusk, but I was far better off than the people who'd driven. I remember looking out my 4th floor window and seeing gridlocked traffic....everywhere! Here's hoping that a valuable lesson was learned from all that.
Yep, sure was stupid of me
I had home visits and assessments scheduled all around Dorchester and South Boston, and they're scheduled close enough together that I have to drive most days. And since my agency doesn't close for any reason (short of a major catastrophe), I was out there driving.
Much of the gridlock was because people don't know that it's illegal (and not helpful) to block freakin intersections. Just about every intersection I got to was full of people who'd pulled out even though there wasn't room to clear, woven in with cars from the other direction that had done the same. And if you got a green and obeyed the law and didn't pull out since you didn't have room to clear the intersection, people started honking, swearing, pulling out around you and blocking the intersection even worse.
Oh, and all the people in various sportscar models that ship with tires that offer no winter traction. Lots of BMWs and Audis spinning their tires with flashers on.
http://1smootshort.blogspot.com
Okay, there are some people who had to drive. That was
an exception., and I agree wholeheartedly about people blocking intersections and causing a gridlock. The advice prior to that big storm last year was not to drive unless one absolutely has to, , which, unfortunately, lots of people did.