MN kids seem to be getting softer. I would expect this nonsense in DC, but not in the midwest.
Caused by recent influx of non-Scandinavians into the Twin Cities.
The continued wussification of America.
You do realize they're calling for a high of -12 F on Monday and a low of -19. I live in Wisconsin & I never recall it getting that cold here.
My wife teaches & shes says that most kids walk to school & many come from poor families where they don't even have warm gloves. Plus the kids aren't smart enough to even remember their gloves sometimes.
Do you want your kid walking to school in -16 F Monday? Have you ever experienced anything below 0 F?
Kids in Scandinavia regularly go to school in temperatures below 0C!
Nice. So do kids in Minnesota.
cool ice sculpture.
It took a lot more to cancel schools in Minnesota in the past. 60 below in 1996.
bolier wrote: My wife teaches & shes says that most kids walk to school & many come from poor families where they don't even have warm gloves. Plus the kids aren't smart enough to even remember their gloves sometimes.
Do you want your kid walking to school in -16 F Monday? Have you ever experienced anything below 0 F?
My response to your...
First statement: I genuinely feel for those kids.
Second statement: Safe to assume their parents are deadbeats and don't remind the kids to wear gloves?
First question: I would drive them to school or walk with them.
Second question: Yes. I have lived in both Red Wing, MN and Edina, MN.
I remember that cold snap. Right around Groundhog's Day as I recall. The governors of WI and MN both canceled all public schools.
Layer Wisely wrote:
Second question: Yes. I have lived in both Red Wing, MN and Edina, MN.
You sound like you've spent time in Edina.
In '96, the -60 reading were wind chills. Monday could be very similar...
It seems unnecessary to cancel school statewide; however, I'm not sure how well equipped MN is for these temperatures. Do vehicles have block heaters and plug ins there? The decision makes sense if pipes will freeze and cars will be stranded, unable to start. 20 below is considered the normal daily low temperature here in January, and schools never close due to temperature, which can be 60 below or colder. 20 below is actually quite nice.
In other news it's 70 in San Francisco and is the lowest rain total since they've kept records, since 1880. Five inches of rain in over 12 months.
Your point?
Global Warning wrote: The early warning, she said, should give parents plenty of time to make child-care arrangements.
“We take these things very seriously,” Cassellius said. “It was not a decision made lightly."
Why doesn't this compassionate and safety-minded person simply order a paid day off for the parents?
Kids walking to school and waiting for school busses is the big concern. Very few people have the type of clothing that will protect them in extreme temperatures....do you? And most children do not. The temps are dangerous, children do not handle exposure to cold as well as adults do.
School may be cancelled in some parts of Michigan, especially rural areas or places where the majority of kids walk to school.
I remember back in the 90s when it was so bitterly cold in Pittsburgh that school was cancelled. The big worry then was that the oil storage tanks would rupture from the cold. I think the water supply was even at risk.
Extreme cold is nothing to mess with.
Kids walking to school and waiting for school busses is the big concern. Very few people have the type of clothing that will protect them in extreme temperatures....do you? And most children do not. The temps are dangerous, children do not handle exposure to cold as well as adults do.
School may be cancelled in some parts of Michigan, especially rural areas or places where the majority of kids walk to school.
I remember back in the 90s when it was so bitterly cold in Pittsburgh that school was cancelled. The big worry then was that the oil storage tanks would rupture from the cold. I think the water supply was even at risk.
Extreme cold is nothing to mess with.
theOTHERwhitemeat wrote: You sound like you've spent time in Edina.
Yes...doing manual labor for all the well-to-do white folks.
snuggles wrote: Extreme cold is nothing to mess with.
I actually agree, and I don't have a problem with the school cancelations. My failed sarcasm aside, I merely meant to convey that most of us who were school-aged children in the late-60s and early-70s can attest to the fact that such weather concessions were never made "back in the day."
yyy wrote:
Kids in Scandinavia regularly go to school in temperatures below 0C!
Scandinavians have no choice but to deal with the cold because their only alternative is to move to a foreign and less prosperous country.
Minnesotans have no such excuse. They are just crazy. Living in a place where it gets to 40 below is as dumb as living where it gets to 140.
0 to 100F, that's the sensible temperature range.
1000milesnorthofmn wrote:
20 below is considered the normal daily low temperature here in January, and schools never close due to temperature, which can be 60 below or colder. 20 below is actually quite nice.
Where are you that 20 below is normal for a low temp?
That's well below the low avg for even Saskatoon Saskatchewan which is 800 miles north or Fort McMurray Alberta which is 1500 miles NW.