Mar 6, 2009

Report from Molly's Rock

Like my esteemed brother-in-mallets Mr D., I'd like to take a moment to comment on the latest (and last?) of old man winter's assault.
This snowfall was supposed to be a big event here in the midlands. The weather report from Columbia on the eve of the projected storm was dire: WINTER STORM WARNING.
Columbia school officials took this warning seriously and called off the Monday school bell by Sunday evening. Alas, the expected 4" of snow never materialized. In fact, the area served by said school districts never saw a flake, due to a troth of warm air from the south. The area most affected was just north of Molly's Rock in Newberry county. While we received a ton of snowfall (and it was gorgeous!), we only saw about 1 inch on the ground, with roads as clear as a summer day. Anything north of us (Clinton, Laurens, Greenville, etc.) got a respectable amount.
Columbia parents of school kids were pissed because of the early call. Most had to lose a day's work to stay home with the non-snowbound kids. Letters to the editor of the State newspaper lambasted school officials for this meat-headed call.
Need I remind those irate parents about their previous letters to the editor of a few years ago when, after an ice storm forecast, the school board failed to call school early, which resulted in kids being on busses during the storm, which in turn resulted in accidents involving school busses, which in turn led the irate parents to lambast said school officials with the charge of incompetance.
What's a homey to do?

2 comments:

El Cerdo Ignatius said...

Up here in Zanzibar North, we lose about a dozen school days a year due to "weather". I put the word in scare quotes because most of the time, the weather is not so severe that schools need to be closed in the city, and the kids end up staying home on days when they could easily get to class on time.

But you see, we're long since past the infestation of socialism in these parts, which has as one of its indelible symptoms the phrase "It's not fair." So if the schools stayed open in the city, but not out in the rural areas where the wind is a bigger problem, it "wouldn't be fair," either to the teachers who have to travel into town from out of town, or those in town anyway, or those out of town who worry about the kids missing too much time (oh, wait - there aren't any of those), or the rural students, or the city students, or to the bus drivers, or whichever group has declared itself Poor Victim of the Day.

Glad to hear that Gorebal Warming hasn't taken hold so severely that South Carolina emerges unscathed by snow, but I'm also pleased that the stuff disappears fast down there.

Have a good one, Southern Men.

Thomas Lawrence said...

Damn it Reid, I think the schools should stay open regardless of weather...and the spoiled little crumb crunchers that populate the schools today should have to trudge their underworked little asses to school through the snow, ice, and cold - three miles all up hill - just like we use to.

What?, oh yeah, we didn't do that either. But we did ride to school with the windows down once in a while!.