Schools Closed Due To Normality

Not this again.

One of these winters, a cloud is going to obscure the sunrise and cause mass panic.

Wilfrid Laurier, the University of Guelph, and Conestoga College are all closed today, because once again, somebody listened to a weather report and overreacted. The weather reports themselves have been full of hysteria. "Snowzilla!" "Snowmageddeon!" "SnOMG!"

Get (sn)over it.

About six inches on the ground...if that. Wind blowing a light breeze at 14 km/hr. Skies overcast. LET'S CLOSE THE SCHOOLS!

Now, I get it, Hamilton and environs is seeing blizzard conditions. They've closed McMaster University, which makes a trifle more sense. But around here?

I'd really love to pinpoint when it was that every random flake of snow was suddenly deemed a WEATHER EVENT and worthy of round the clock hype. Do the weather forecasters not realize how ridiculous they sound? It's Canada, it's winter, it snows. Always has, probably always will. But sometime between when I was knee-high to a snowbank and now, the STORMCENTRE went live and everything changed. The tense music started up and the list of cancellations followed.

I've said this before and I'll say it again. When they pull the city busses off the streets, that's when the schools should close. Whoever's responsible for school board transportation should call up the city transit early in the morning and ask "are your busses running today?" If the answer is yes, then kids should be in school. Hell, it's not as if anybody walks anymore.