[Magdalen] ATTN The Scotts !!!

[Jay Weigel]

Correction, David...the climate change pattern has made these occurrences
MORE severe during the last 30 years.
https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/science-and-impacts/science/cold-snow-climate-change.html

One thing is true, though. Schools were rarely closed because of the
weather when we were growing up. Madison city schools were famously closed
the year I was born (1943...I guess there was a severe blizzard that year)
and not again  until my senior year in high school, 1961. I remember that
one because I'd talked my mother into letting me stay home; I'd injured my
knee in gym class and didn't feel like struggling through the already
forming drifts, even the three blocks from our house to school. At just
around noon, my best friend appeared at our door with snow dripping off
everywhere and asked if she could stay. The city buses had stopped running
and she had no way to get home. She stayed with us for 3 days and wasn't
the only kid who took refuge with friends that week. It was the weekend
before we all dug out. I think it was 1965 before it happened again, the
famous (or infamous) St. Paddy's Day blizzard. After that I believe the
guideline was whether the Madison Metro buses were running. Now, of course,
there are school buses and it's the Madison Metro School District and
encompasses a lot bigger area, so there's more to consider. I think there
was probably more to consider in the northern rural areas of the state and
schools may have been closed for snow or cold there a few times. But mostly
it was a thing of, you made it to school if  you could, and if you
couldn't, you made up the work. Now, of course, there's that thing about
schools only getting paid by how many kids are actually in school on any
given day....so there's that to contend with.

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:16 AM cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

> I am just a little amused at the local NE Pennsylvania USA complete
> panicover our present deep freeze.  At the worst of it here we will have
> highsin the teens F and lows of 0F to -5F.  There is a little wind, so
> there arethe dreaded wind chills.  Temperatures have not fallen below zero
> atthis location for at least 20 years, so what's happening is
> somewhatunusual.
> Having grown up and lived much of my life in NW Wisconsin at the
> Minnesotaborder it all seems much ado about nothing or at least very
> little.  Schools areonce again closed here in NE PA.
> We'd have had no school much of the winter using the criteria they use
> here inPennsylvania.
> In that Upper Midwestern USA climate the routine has been for the
> temperatureto drop below zero 24/7 for several weeks, with highs of, say,
> -10F and lows of-20F to-30F (actual temperatures, NOT wind chills).  There
> were occasionalfreaky cold nights below -35F.  One year, shortly before I
> moved here to NEPennsylvania, it was cold as I have described, AND there
> was high wind forseveral days.  My whole home became encased in ice.
> Still, activities were notcurtailed.  Those Scandinavian ethnics are a
> tough bunch!
> There was even a visit/concert by the famed Saint Olaf Choir during
> thiswind and cold, to a sellout crowd.
> That said, climate change has meant that this pattern has been less
> severeover the past 30 years - for better or worse.
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> David Strang.
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> In a message dated 1/31/2019 10:44:29 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> cadyasoukup at gmail.com writes:
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> On 1/31/19, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:> Still running
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