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I laugh at what the Dutch consider to be "a lot of snow", but I understand why they freak out about it. They just aren't prepared to handle it because it's not something that happens a lot. They don't have enough snow plows, salt for the roads, etc to make it safe. A couple of years ago, I got a phone call from my son's school, all the way across town, that they were closing down in anticipation of the snow coming and I needed to come pick him up. Because his school is special education for kids on the Autism spectrum, it serves the whole region....kids from as far away as Arnhem come here to school because there's not a school for them in their towns. (There are in Arnhem, but some of them come here anyway) All those kids are brought by taxi bus and the taxi drivers flat out refused to drive after like 1:30 in the afternoon, so the school had to close and get all those kids home before that. We lived just a hair too close to qualify for taxi service subsidy. You had to be 6 km away, and we're only 5.8km. The only way I had to go get him was by bike. Fortunately I was at work that day, and my work was just like a km or so away from his school. But I got there to pick him up, everyone else was gone already and the snow had already started. Our bike paths don't get plowed or anything so I didn't want to take our normal route with a really steep tunnel that I was worried would be slippery. So we had to take a round about route that basically went back to my work before going to our house to avoid that hill. It was MURDER. He started crying because the snow was stinging his face and his knee hurt and he couldn't bike, we needed to stop and walk. I think it took us two hours to walk home in that snow storm. I remember stopping to call my husband to see if he could come pick us up, but he couldn't and we had no where to leave the bikes. It was miserable.

<blockquote data-quote="Songbird76" data-source="post: 9575087" data-attributes="member: 107242"><p>I laugh at what the Dutch consider to be &quot;a lot of snow&quot;, but I understand why they freak out about it.&nbsp; They just aren&#039;t prepared to handle it because it&#039;s not something that happens a lot.&nbsp; They don&#039;t have enough snow plows, salt for the roads, etc to make it safe. A couple of years ago, I got a phone call from my son&#039;s school, all the way across town, that they were closing down in anticipation of the snow coming and I needed to come pick him up.&nbsp; Because his school is special education for kids on the Autism spectrum, it serves the whole region....kids from as far away as Arnhem come here to school because there&#039;s not a school for them in their towns. (There are in Arnhem, but some of them come here anyway)&nbsp; All those kids are brought by taxi bus and the taxi drivers flat out refused to drive after like 1:30 in the afternoon, so the school had to close and get all those kids home before that.&nbsp; We lived just a hair too close to qualify for taxi service subsidy.&nbsp; You had to be 6 km away, and we&#039;re only 5.8km.&nbsp; The only way I had to go get him was by bike. Fortunately I was at work that day, and my work was just like a km or so away from his school.&nbsp; But I got there to pick him up, everyone else was gone already and the snow had already started.&nbsp; Our bike paths don&#039;t get plowed or anything so I didn&#039;t want to take our normal route with a really steep tunnel that I was worried would be slippery.&nbsp; So we had to take a round about route that basically went back to my work before going to our house to avoid that hill.&nbsp; It was MURDER.&nbsp; He started crying because the snow was stinging his face and his knee hurt and he couldn&#039;t bike, we needed to stop and walk.&nbsp; I think it took us two hours to walk home in that snow storm.&nbsp; I remember stopping to call my husband to see if he could come pick us up, but he couldn&#039;t and we had no where to leave the bikes.&nbsp; It was miserable.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Songbird76, post: 9575087, member: 107242"] I laugh at what the Dutch consider to be "a lot of snow", but I understand why they freak out about it. They just aren't prepared to handle it because it's not something that happens a lot. They don't have enough snow plows, salt for the roads, etc to make it safe. A couple of years ago, I got a phone call from my son's school, all the way across town, that they were closing down in anticipation of the snow coming and I needed to come pick him up. Because his school is special education for kids on the Autism spectrum, it serves the whole region....kids from as far away as Arnhem come here to school because there's not a school for them in their towns. (There are in Arnhem, but some of them come here anyway) All those kids are brought by taxi bus and the taxi drivers flat out refused to drive after like 1:30 in the afternoon, so the school had to close and get all those kids home before that. We lived just a hair too close to qualify for taxi service subsidy. You had to be 6 km away, and we're only 5.8km. The only way I had to go get him was by bike. Fortunately I was at work that day, and my work was just like a km or so away from his school. But I got there to pick him up, everyone else was gone already and the snow had already started. Our bike paths don't get plowed or anything so I didn't want to take our normal route with a really steep tunnel that I was worried would be slippery. So we had to take a round about route that basically went back to my work before going to our house to avoid that hill. It was MURDER. He started crying because the snow was stinging his face and his knee hurt and he couldn't bike, we needed to stop and walk. I think it took us two hours to walk home in that snow storm. I remember stopping to call my husband to see if he could come pick us up, but he couldn't and we had no where to leave the bikes. It was miserable. [/QUOTE]