Tidbits From a Snowy Day
When we dismissed school at 1:30 PM because of deteriorating travel conditions, Mr. Schrock chose the song with these words:
It's a happy day, and I think God for the weather.
It's a happy day, and I'm livin' it for my Lord.
It's a happy day, and things are gonna get better . . .
Livin' each day by the promises of God's Word.
We're having the first significant snowfall of the winter, and it's heartily welcomed for the moisture and diversion it provides,
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Earlier, after an announcement that some of the students had prepared hot chocolate and lattes in the kitchen for everyone, I had overheard this:
Nathan: Can this day get any better?
Jonny: I still think we should have donuts, but we ate them all when it was 70 outside. (The dough scraps from the big doughnut production day a week and a half ago had been duly fried and glazed and frozen in ice cream buckets for student consumption later. By now all nine? buckets full had been consumed.)
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Mr. Schrock (begins the speech with a bit of muttering): I'm feeling sillier and sillier for this, but we're all going soft I guess, and (finishing stronger) we're dismissing school at 1:30.
Trust me, the apologies were a flare-up of Minnesota-winter-nurtured fearlessness, and not a consensus among students or parents, judging by phone calls from parents and tales of sliding to a stop on the way to school and spinning to get going again--and cheers at the announcement of early closure. The public school district in this area also dismissed at this time, and has canceled school for tomorrow. We'll be waiting on a phone call tomorrow to let us know what is planned for our school.
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The predicted snow amount by 6:00 tomorrow evening is 15 inches here, revised from about 7 inches this morning. The snowfall during the day today was predicted to be about two inches, and I think we had about that by 10:00 this morning--maybe more. Snow drifts in some areas--like the school/church parking lot and around the cars--were already deep enough to get at least one student's car stuck. I made a mental note of where I needed to back before I got into my minivan, first through the drift behind the vehicle, and then into a relatively clear space, free from surrounding drifts.
The snow did taper off about mid-afternoon, but the bulk of the total snowfall in this storm is likely to fall tonight and tomorrow. Travel is strongly discouraged.
Overnight lows the next two nights are to fall to 9 degrees, with wind gusts to 24 MPH. Somehow, I doubt that going to school at 2:30 AM on Friday will seem like such a great idea (the annual night school plan we already have in place). We'll get final word on that later too.
It's a happy day, and I think God for the weather.
It's a happy day, and I'm livin' it for my Lord.
It's a happy day, and things are gonna get better . . .
Livin' each day by the promises of God's Word.
We're having the first significant snowfall of the winter, and it's heartily welcomed for the moisture and diversion it provides,
**************************
Earlier, after an announcement that some of the students had prepared hot chocolate and lattes in the kitchen for everyone, I had overheard this:
Nathan: Can this day get any better?
Jonny: I still think we should have donuts, but we ate them all when it was 70 outside. (The dough scraps from the big doughnut production day a week and a half ago had been duly fried and glazed and frozen in ice cream buckets for student consumption later. By now all nine? buckets full had been consumed.)
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Mr. Schrock (begins the speech with a bit of muttering): I'm feeling sillier and sillier for this, but we're all going soft I guess, and (finishing stronger) we're dismissing school at 1:30.
Trust me, the apologies were a flare-up of Minnesota-winter-nurtured fearlessness, and not a consensus among students or parents, judging by phone calls from parents and tales of sliding to a stop on the way to school and spinning to get going again--and cheers at the announcement of early closure. The public school district in this area also dismissed at this time, and has canceled school for tomorrow. We'll be waiting on a phone call tomorrow to let us know what is planned for our school.
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The predicted snow amount by 6:00 tomorrow evening is 15 inches here, revised from about 7 inches this morning. The snowfall during the day today was predicted to be about two inches, and I think we had about that by 10:00 this morning--maybe more. Snow drifts in some areas--like the school/church parking lot and around the cars--were already deep enough to get at least one student's car stuck. I made a mental note of where I needed to back before I got into my minivan, first through the drift behind the vehicle, and then into a relatively clear space, free from surrounding drifts.
The snow did taper off about mid-afternoon, but the bulk of the total snowfall in this storm is likely to fall tonight and tomorrow. Travel is strongly discouraged.
Overnight lows the next two nights are to fall to 9 degrees, with wind gusts to 24 MPH. Somehow, I doubt that going to school at 2:30 AM on Friday will seem like such a great idea (the annual night school plan we already have in place). We'll get final word on that later too.
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