> . Of course, I remember schools being closed down on account of heat, too, and I doubt my mountain-raised Vermontian sweetie can say that.
> > >
> > > Iss

Wow. Closed because of heat.

> > It was a real shock for me when I moved here from the mountains (East Tennessee). Charlotte had 2 inches of snow one night. I got up and got ready for work as usual, but the city was pretty much shut down!
>
> Why do I get the feeling if Howard were here, he'd be telling us about walking ten miles to school, with no shoes, in three feet of snow, uphill. Both directions. Hm? Maybe it's just me.

How about the small-town Alaskan girl beating the Canadians to it?

Several years ago, it snowed so much the bus couldn't make it to the end of the evening route [me and a few others]. We could either wait for a tow truck or reinforcements or walk. The bus was pretty cold, and we knew it'd be a long wait, so we waded through waste-deep streets home. I think I was in... third grade? Fourth? Somewhere along there.

Then last winter [did I already tell this one?] we got three snowplows stuck in our cul-de-sac at once.

I had a friend who moved to Texas for a year or two. They got one inch of snow and school shut down. We all laughed.

'Course, now that I have to commute to Anchorage to go to school. They don't get snow. Or cold. So we never have snow days. With the new road, there aren't as many avalanches blocking the highway, but even if the kids from here can't make it in, school's open.

Chr"we were laughing at Anchoragite temperature woes when White Mountain people started laughing at us"is