Yeah, the blowing snow is crazy here today. I would much rather take back the extreme colds at this point than the snow.We got snow last night and are still in a blizzard warning. The snow isn't falling anymore but the wind is whipping it around like crazy. The dog wouldn't travel off the step until she got a path shoveled for her because the snow drifts were taller than her, so I shoveled and now that is all drifted too. We have the same snow possible for Tuesday and Friday. Winter can end now.
The wind just started here. Peak gusts of 110 km/h. Technically, that’s considered speeding on every single highway in the province.It’s above freezing here, but we’re getting the wind gusts too. Our patio table top decided to fly the coop. Unfortunately it didn’t get too far and now exists as a pile of little pieces of glass.
I think Mother Nature misunderstood. I'll take cold instead of snow. Not in addition to.I'd rather have the cold too. I guess that is good because we are going sub zero again next week too, along with some snow.
I'm so ready to get back into routine. I feel like I haven't been productive since before winter break. I did achieve something, though. I finally finished unit 5 in math and got all the assessments done in small groups on Friday. I can start unit 6 tomorrow! I literally started unit 5 on January 2. I didn't finish it until February 22. It was a heavy unit, too, and I'm so ready to be done with it.Just got a call from my school district, we are closed tomorrow. We are still under blizzard conditions until around midnight and no plows are going out on the roads in our county until 4 am tomorrow. I only live a couple blocks from school, so I think I'll still go in and do some of the make up hours I have to do. I have never been so honestly unhappy to have so many school closures in my life! We haven't had a fully week of school since the first full week of January and we are in the 5th week of the quarter. I'm getting so behind on my lesson track. Sorry, rant over....
We've been saying how out of routine we are as teachers and how we are forgetting to do things that we normally do. We can only imagine how out of routine the kids must be. They can't remember what day of the week it is, and they never know when we have school and when we don't.
first snow days, now wind days when will I get too nice to go to work daysRon White nailed it. It’s not THAT the wind is blowing ... it’s WHAT the wind is blowing.
That being said, I am shocked to learn that in-town schools are open this morning. All of the county and out of town schools (within our Board) are closed and Zone 1-3 school buses are cancelled though.
I can SEE the elation on kids’ faces this morning when they see this familiar yellow warning on the website ...
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... and then the total disappointment when they read that last line.
