messages to the higher powers

[miss_swamp]

Well, the Ideal Plan was to teach summer school and make a lot of extra money and go on a fabulous exotic trip later in the year. However, thanks to five snow days and counting, the New Plan is apparently to teach all summer for no extra money at all. I know I told you that after five we didn't have to make them up; my sources were mistaken.

Confidential to Weather Gods: Enough with the Real Winter. If I wanted to deal with this frequently, I'd have stayed in the Midwest, where housing is cheaper and my parents would eventually provide free daycare.

Confidential to WSDOT, King County and City of Seattle: Please to buy some %#$& salt trucks and snow plows. Get them cheap from Minneapolis, where they no longer seem to be needed.

Confidential to Seattle School District: Two hours late would be good enough for me.


I'm so sorry for those of you who are required to deal with this. Maybe (I kinda hope) they'll cancel midwinter break instead of summer. Now back to bed....

Comments

[l-aurore.livejournal.com]

Amen on your first two confidentials; I'm also okay with ending this "real winter" bit. Give me a chance to experience Seattle weather, will you? Also, we best start hearing talk of salt truck purchases in the upcoming years. This isn't just a fluke year, folks.

However, I'm with Seattle and all the other districts on cancelling today. See: my updated post about my morning story. It's just not safe. My partner is in West Seattle and it looks even worse than it is here -- and my area isn't pretty.

I wonder if, in the future, the school districts will do what we do in Colorado - tack on an extra hour to the school day which will cover us for any "emergency" days we may encounter and give us more time to work with students.

[miss-swamp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I made that comment before coming downstairs to see the news. West Seattle looks atrocious and I certainly won't be driving anywhere. Two hours late would be fine with *me* because I just have to walk (or climb).

But Colorado has a good idea. The requirement is 1000 hours, and even just 15 extra minutes each day could make up for six school days. Then we could have early release days in April-June if we had extra hours left. MN used to add built-in snow days to the calendar, but now I think they just don't cancel school, ever.

[weahawk.livejournal.com]

although my school seems to think that we can handle snow and ice, they won't cancel anything due to that, we do seem to have problems with the local power company....it seems that any light breeze will knock out power here for hours/days/almost a freaking week.

This winter really has sucked ass...oh well enjoy your four day weekend. I'm off to try to get up some frozen hills in my wheelchair...i really am beginning to hate snow