How Come

It isn't though is it? People have to make plans and if its clear at 7am but several inch of snow forecast with 100% certainty from 9am onwards then all hell is going to break loose if people just wait for it to happen. Teachers have kids too.

Look at today, already in our area a wagon is struggling to get up the hill to Hoylandswaine and there's been a crash with ambulance present between Silkstone and Dodworth.

I've worked from home today as there was a real risk I wouldn't get back from Huddersfield, even though it was clear when I woke up. Going home early for me would have caused a lot more disruption to my work than just doing it here.

 

Weather forecasts are a lot more accurate than back in my youth,nowadays they’re nearly always right.

 

Half the country is all about H&S so postponements, precautions and such (usually the min wage, ground staff who do everything). The other half is all "oh it's only so and so, we've all had to do it ourselves!" (Usually management).

 

If you rub both your brain cells together really hard you might be able to find the answer to that one

 

Same. I remember listening to them reading out the list of closed schools on local radio with my fingers crossed!

 

Are you usually so aggressive in your tone with most posters or is it just a regular pattern you prefer to take to try and belittle people's differing opinions to yours?

 

Exactly, we were open all day today but that is why schools close even when the weather doesn’t look that bad at that moment. If children can’t be picked up, members of staff have to stay with them until they are collected, which then makes it even harder for them to get home. If the weather is really bad and roads are impassable then the child and staff could be stuck there literally hours after the school day ended waiting for someone to arrive. I’m sure everyone complaining about it and how they don’t get the day off doesn’t have the risk of having to stay at work and babysit children for free for hours after their work day ends if the weather gets bad.

 

Is this where you get a chain of teachers who can't leave school to pick up their kids because teachers at other schools are waiting for all the kids there to be collected first - all by teachers?

 

When I was a kid at school in the '60's & '70's, most people in Dodworth had coal fires and the pit was still open. This meant that people cleaning out their grates were able to put the ash outside their home in most streets. The schools all had coal fuelled central heating (free from the pit), so that enabled access and footpaths to remain safe. On top of that, the majority of the teachers lived either in the village or the next.
To try and claim that all this made that time 'better' is plain daft. You can't simply select aspects from that period (as if from a menu) and disregard other inconvenient truths.

 

Ha, yes!

 

Quicker 22 mile commute home than usual today thanks to everyone either bailing out early or stopping at home. M1 and M62 noticeably quieter than normal.

 

I actually got home 15 minutes later on mine. 14 mile journey. I did the first 11 miles in record time, and then sat in traffic for the final 3 miles as Sheffield council clearly didn't believe the weather forecast when making the decision to grit main roads.

 

As a kid I lived directly opposite Shawlands school. I don’t remember it ever closing, but often the school bus was cancelled, so all those who lived up near Broadway didn’t come in and often there’d just be about 20 kids in the whole school, so the teachers would just take us into the hall and we’d play pirates or crab football all day. That was good fun, because the only kids there would be the ones from the streets around the school, so we were all mates.

I remember going into the cloakroom and the snow drifts were higher than the outside door. I laugh at what people consider a lot of snow these days. But I hated snow, and ice, and hail, and rain, because it interfered with our football. We’d play football at every break. Did the same at Holgate, where Fiona used to run rings round us. We even worked out that if we ran straight to the canteen as soon as the bell went, we could get in, get our lunch, ordering as much as we could that could be grabbed and taken outside with us, so that we could do a runner as soon as the teachers started coming in, so they wouldn’t come and ask us how come we were in the canteen ahead of the allocated time for our year, and be back in the playground for a full hour of footy. Indoor break was *****.

 

Going to defend the council now, but grit doesn't do much for snow. It lowers the freezing point of water so ice doesn't form, but the rain this morning washed any grit away then the snow just settles anyway. It needs a snowplough to clear the roads - and idiots to stop abandoning cars on the tramtracks...

 

Gotta chuckle at people complaining that schools are using the weather forecast to decide if to stay open or not but want Football clubs to do the same for pitch inspections etc.

First world problems, only on here…..

 

I decided to come up Prince of Wales Road tonight as they were queuing to get onto the Mosborough Parkway, and there was sheet ice all the way up.

People not knowing how to drive in it doesn't help though, I agree. A chap in an Audi A3 was absolutely booting the accelerator trying to get up there. And looked bemused when I kept carefully chugging up the inside of him every time the traffic moved. Abandoned cars all the way up the central reservation too, and pretty much every junction with at least one car with the hazards on.

 

Ger em back down pits aswell I imagine lol

 

Sorry. Could you explain that one?

 

We forced kids to do lessons via zoom for months and months a few years ago, the infrastructure should still be in place so doesnt it make a lot of sense to make the call the night before and switch lessons to online for a day? Much safer and more practical than having hundreds of people drag themselves into school at 9am and sent home at 11 with parents having to leave work left right and centre to go and get them in poor conditions?