what have they done

[white eagle]

I can't understand it
what has this generation come to ?
there was a couple of inches of snow yesterday and they cancelled school
I can not believe the people has not our children missed enough school already?
When I was young we had to walk through 12" of snow uphill both ways to get to and from school
are we raising a bunch of sissies?

[Cosmic_Charlie]

i bet your mother gave you baked potatoes out of the oven to keep your hands warm and for lunch too.

[white eagle]

well how did you know

[Red River Rick]

i bet your mother gave you baked potatoes out of the oven to keep your hands warm and for lunch too.

Boiled eggs in our mitts kept our hands warm.

[Alstep]

My bed warmer was a brick that was heated on the kitchen wood stove. Wrapped it in a towel and put it under the covers before I went to bed. Toasty warm.

[BLAHUT]

Depending on how cold it got, I just brought one or more dogs in bed to help keep warm. If you didn't know, that's where 3-dog-night came from, before the band. Today as I look out the back door, there is a 7-foot-high snow drift across the back of the house, out the front of the house the snow drift by the house is about 5 feet high and at the end of the driveway the snow pile is about 8 feet high. As far as bed warmers some used a hot water bottle or cherry stones warmed on the wood stove. The dogs had a ball outside, they swam their way out past the big snowdrift and did not want to come back in.

[jimlj]

I actually did have to walk a mile to school, in the snow up hill both ways. When the roads were clear we rode old hand me down bikes to school. I left more than one patch of hide on the road when we had bike wrecks. I don't recall school ever being canceled due to snow, but there is a lot I don't recall that happened 60 years ago.

[Hannibal]

It's not hard to figure out. Some Karen would sue the school district and win if their kid got hurt getting to school due to poor road conditions.

So they cancel classes.

[Ickisrulz]

Schools normally schedule a certain number of "snow days" into their academic year. So when they use them, kids aren't really missing a programmed day of school.

I had snow days when I was a kid and I'm not really that young. So it's not really a new thing. What closes a school depends on where you live and what resources they have for dealing with snow and ice and what drivers are accustomed to.

[Winger Ed.]

When I was young we had to walk through 12" of snow uphill both ways to get to and from school

You had it easy.

We had to get up and milk the cows first. Then walk to school through the pasture with a bull in it.
Too poor to have shoes--- we had to wrap barbed wire around our feet just to get some traction on the ice.

These new age kids are a bunch of wimps, don't appreciate anything, and don't want to work.
I've had a full time job since I was three years old.
I started off in the coal mines making 4 cents a day. I first hired on as a shovel.

We didn't have all those fancy toys for kids made in China---- by kids.
All we had to play with was dirt.

But we were grateful.

[centershot]

Yes, Amen, we are grateful for what we have, having worked all our lives to get it. The Mrs. and I grew up as children of working people and we learned HOW to work, not like these kids today. I started mowing neighborhood lawns as soon as I was big enough to handle the mower, 9 or 10 maybe. Cheryl Ann was babysitting neighborhood kids from the time she was 11, made good money at it too! When I was 12 I took the Power Squadron course and passed it, after that dad would let me take the boat whenever I wanted it - IF I had the gas for it. I started hangin' out at the marina down the road, owned by an old friend of my folks, Bob Musty was his name. After stumbling around down there for a couple weeks Bob figured he better put me to work, so I ended up on the gas dock and cleaning boats and the boat barn 3-4 days a week. Twelve years old and gainfully employed, you'lda' thought I won the Lotto! In answer to White Eagle's question - Yes, kids today ARE sissies!

[redriverhunter]

I am not sure where you live. Here in north texas is does not take much snow or ice to shut the schools down. We are not prepaired for the snow or ice, my car has all season tire but that about it, which I dont think is much. Doctor offices and such usally shut down for the day as well.

[375supermag]

You had it easy.

We had to get up and milk the cows first. Then walk to school through the pasture with a bull in it.
Too poor to have shoes--- we had to wrap barbed wire around our feet just to get some traction on the ice.

These new age kids are a bunch of wimps, don't appreciate anything, and don't want to work.
I've had a full time job since I was three years old.
I started off in the coal mines making 4 cents a day. I first hired on as a shovel.

We didn't have all those fancy toys for kids made in China---- by kids.
All we had to play with was dirt.

But we were grateful.

I wish my parents could have afforded dirt for all of us.
Only my older brother, my younger sister and my younger brother got their own dirt to play with.
I only got hand me down used dirt to play with.

[Winger Ed.]

there was a couple of inches of snow yesterday and they cancelled school

At Quantico, I had a kid from Detroit working for me.
All summer I heard, "Nobody can drive on the snow but me".
I tried to tell him it was different here. It isn't just snow, which is sort of like driving on a dirt road.
Here, we have ice to go with-- on, and even under it. And we also have 'black ice' you can see until you're on it.

It was like giving singing lessons to a pig..... I got more of 'nobody can drive on the snow but me'.

The morning of our first storm, he was late getting in.
Finally, him with his beloved Police surplus Fury III on the back of a wrecker got in. It had been rolled over at least twice.
I asked him if he had been teaching some one how to drive on the snow.

.... No,, That comment did not move him over into his happy place.

[country gent]

If it snowed we had to shovel the path as we walked to school so Mom could get to town

[Hannibal]

I wish my parents could have afforded dirt for all of us.
Only my older brother, my younger sister and my younger brother got their own dirt to play with.
I only got hand me down used dirt to play with.

I had to make my own dirt. Wish I'd been as lucky as you. Only had some moldy bread crust for dinner some nights. But I was sure glad to get it.

[sparky45]

First Liar doesn't stand a chance.

[Winger Ed.]

Wish I'd been as lucky as you. Only had some moldy bread crust for dinner some nights. But I was sure glad to get it.

Hmmm. I guess we were rich and just didn't know it.
We had regular bread to make 'wish' sandwiches with.

It was one small piece of stale bread, and you wished you had some meat.

I used to put it on pretty heavy when I worked with young guys.
The shop had a basket ball hoop against the back of the building and they'd play during lunch sometimes.
I'd walk by and tell 'em,
"When I was your age, we didn't have those fancy basket balls. We had to play hoops with a cat".

[elmacgyver0]

I am not sure where you live. Here in north texas is does not take much snow or ice to shut the schools down. We are not prepaired for the snow or ice, my car has all season tire but that about it, which I dont think is much. Doctor offices and such usally shut down for the day as well.

First lesson:
1. Don't drive 60 mph on ice.
Actually, that's about it.
We don't have magic tires up here in the "snow belt" either.
At one time we could have "studded snow tires".
I even had a "gun" for studding them, looked a lot like a caulking gun, think I may still have it.
Studded tires were outlawed many years ago, I haven't even heard much about "snowtires" in many years.

[Doughty]

I must have been the luckiest kid of all you here. I went to a school that did close when it snowed. My 3rd grade year, 1960 if my math is right. Fordland, Missouri. It snowed and got so cold that all the pipes at school froze and burst. We were out of school for weeks; playing in the snow. Of course later, they tried to make us go to school on Saturdays etc., but they eventually gave up on that so, win-win.