Mama Kat Thursday: Old Days Snow Days
The Mama Kat challenge today is to, "Describe what snow days were like when you were a child. What made them memorable?" My school years were from 1963 to 1975 and back then, school was rarely canceled for weather. For one thing, I lived in central Indiana and, while it did snow, it seldom snowed enough to warrant school closures. Certainly, we'd see flakes falling and be hoping a snow day might get called, but that was exceedingly rare. Mostly because we wouldn't get more then two to six inches at any one time-- if any fell at all and it didn't always. Getting a snow day really was a matter of timing: snow had to fall heavy enough, like eight inches or more, and build up on the roads fast enough or over-night, so snowplows that snowplows couldn't get all roads cleared adequately for buses to be able to pick up students. You have to picture that this was a large, spread-out farming community and most people lived on winding back roads or on gra...