Snow Day?!

[Ivor Karabatkovic]

taken off the WKYC website:

LAKE SNOWS WILL BE PICKING UP THROUGH THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. LAKE SNOW WARNING FOR CUYAHOGA, LAKE, GEAUGA, AND ASHTABULA COUNTIES THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING, AS MORE THAN 6" OF SNOW IS LIKELY. ALSO, A LAKE SNOW ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR LORAIN COUNTY THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING, AS 4"-6"+ OF SNOW IS POSSIBLE.

will this be enough for a snow day here in Lakewood? We never get them. There's already a ton of snow covering the streets and sidewalks, and more is on its way. I had a tough time walking home from school today, and there are students that have to walk much much farther than I do.

Tell your kids to wear their pajamas inside out! we might get really lucky tomorrow and have a snow day!

if not, no suprise. last time it snowed half as bad as this my teachers didn't make it to school until 930 AM- and they didn't close school. Lakewood High School should change it's motto from "Every Period- Every Day" to "No Teachers?! No Problem!"


Can't wait to go sledding this weekend! haven't been sledding in 7 years. Any suggestion for hills? I think I'll be down at Edgewater!

[Bryan Schwegler]

I think I had 2 snow days the entire time I was at Lakewood High. The one wasn't even for snow, it was because it was too cold outside.

[Gary Rice]

As you are no doubt aware, there's a huge difference between snowfall amounts in our various suburbs, due to elevation and wind proximity location, with respect to the lake.

As a retired Parma teacher, teaching in Seven Hills- there were a number of times that the Parma schools had a snow day, when Lakewood did not.

Many times when I went to teach in Seven Hills, there was a great deal of snow; when in Lakewood, there was none on the ground.

And, solemn truth be told- the last snow day they had there, I was able to cut my grass in Lakewood!

Lakewood schools historically seem to have seldom closed for snow.

[dl meckes]

I would guess that one reason Lakewood schools don't need to have snow days is because Lakewood students can walk to school.

Through 10' of snow. Uphill (both ways).

[Ivor Karabatkovic]

There were rumors when Dr.Estrop first came to our district that he was from Alaska and Cleveland winters were nothing to him.

Funny what students can think of; especially when we can't think of a logical reason to why we're burried in school.

[Dee Martinez]

I would guess that one reason Lakewood schools don't need to have snow days is because Lakewood students can walk to school.

Through 10' of snow. Uphill (both ways).

Thats absolutely correct. In other citys it's the busses that determine whether schools are open or closed. I lived in one area where the schools regularly opened 2 hrs late due to fog.

uphill both ways yes, but since Lakewood is so flat how can you tell?

[David Lay]

uphill both ways yes, but since Lakewood is so flat how can you tell?

...because all of our parents told us the same thing.

[Danielle Masters]

Dr. Estrop says schools will close if the temperature is low. The temp outside today is 13 degrees with a windchill of -1. My children who walk everyday will not be walking today, I will drive them. So many children in Lakewood don't have parents that are able to drive them. I really feel bad for them, just imagine how bad it will be next year when so many elementary children will be walking farther, but that's another topic for another day.

[Grace O'Malley]

I am horrified at the number of students I see walking to school with no hats or gloves, coats wide open, and even in the middle of winter: SHORTS!

As I drive down Franklin to take my child to school, I wish I had a big van to pick up some of these kids. I know some of them choose to go to school like that, but I have to wonder how many of them don't have parents that make sure they have the proper clothing and insist they wear it.

[Danielle Masters]

I have a friend who is a saint. She picks up three children that would generally take the circulator to school. She saw them waiting one day at the bus stop and has been taking them everyday since. Their mother can't drive so they really have no choice. They used to walk but now their elementary school is too far. I really am beginning to wonder if I am in the right community. Thank goodness for people like my friend. As for the kids that wear shorts generally they are older, but I have seen some young kids without adequate clothing. Our school has extra gloves, hats and coats for the kids who parents don't or can't provide them. I think its great because sometimes parents are too proud to ask for help which I can understand. I think its great when stuff like this is done without any fanfare. Its just doing a good deed for the sake of the deed not the recognition, and the kids are provided for.

[Jeff Endress]

Grace

I am horrified at the number of students I see walking to school with no hats or gloves, coats wide open, and even in the middle of winter: SHORTS!

You have to realize that those are winter shorts! They keep their male occuPANTS as warm as a girl's skirt, right?

Anyway, walking around sans hat, gloves and coat is....cool

Jeff

[ryan costa]

Back during fifth grade there had been a lot of snow. It kept melting and refreezing, so the sidewalks ended up being 3 inches of groovy slicked-up ice on Athens. We had to walk through that. The grooves were full of ice-cold water which permeated my shoes. When I arrived at Roosevelt I began kicking the walls to break the ice off my shoes. Then I flipped off the Principal.

[Ivor Karabatkovic]

heh, temperatures will soar next week to a high of 7 degrees? monday should be interesting. There's no way in hell I'm walking to school when it's -10 degrees below zero.

[Jerry Ritcey]

Michael: Ahh.. Very passable, this, very passable.
Graham: Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chassilier, eh Josiah?
Terry J: You're right there Obediah.
Eric: Who'd a thought thirty years ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Chateau de Chassilier?
Michael: Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.
Graham: A cup o' COLD tea.
Eric: Without milk or sugar.
Terry J: OR tea!
Michael: In a cracked cup, and all.
Eric: We never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
Graham: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
Terry J: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
Michael: Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness."
Eric: 'E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN'. We used to live in this tiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof.
Graham: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing and we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!
Terry J: You were lucky to have a ROOM! We used to have to live in a corridor!
Michael: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.
Eric: Well when I say "house" it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpolin, it was a house to US.
Graham: We were evicted from our hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake!
Terry J: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road.
Michael: Cardboard box?
Terry J: Aye.
Michael: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down the mill for fourteen hours a day week in week out, for sixpence a week. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
Graham: Luxury! We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, work twenty hour a day at the mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
Terry J: Well of course, we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.
Eric: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our Mother would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."
Michael: And you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.
All: They won't..

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[Stan Austin]

Ivor--- I know where you live in relation to the high school. You don't even have to put on an overcoat to dash to school

Here's something you might want to try---- have some friends call up the media outlets and say your school is closed for the day because of the cold temperatures.

We tried it back in the '60s. That's why they have secret codes now!

But try it out and see if you can get a day off!!!!!!!!

Stan