01-23-2026, 06:08 AM
Yeah, this is gonna be one of those "back in my day" posts.
When I was in school, snow days were rare. I mean like I can remember maybe half a dozen times school was cancelled because of weather. Our bus drivers must have taken the mail carrier oath :"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds," 'cause anything short of Armageddon and that bus was running on schedule. They even went so far as to bus us to school, even when they knew a storm was coming. In Junior High, we went to school one day and for 2 days prior, they had been forecasting an ice storm. We still showed up that morning and by about 10 we were right back on the buses going home.
There was one day that half the school didn't even get there because 3 buses went off the road and people who drove to school just said Hell Naw and stayed home.
My bus driver was the female version of Evel Knievel. She took snow, ice and even flood waters as a personal challenge and By God we're goin' through !
I do think it's much safer these days, not because the School Board actually gives a damn, it's just to keep the child endangerment suits to a minimum. The storm hasn't even hit yet and they already cancelled school here for next week, because of the snow, ice and sub zero temps that are coming.
This was my bus driver
When I was in school, snow days were rare. I mean like I can remember maybe half a dozen times school was cancelled because of weather. Our bus drivers must have taken the mail carrier oath :"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds," 'cause anything short of Armageddon and that bus was running on schedule. They even went so far as to bus us to school, even when they knew a storm was coming. In Junior High, we went to school one day and for 2 days prior, they had been forecasting an ice storm. We still showed up that morning and by about 10 we were right back on the buses going home.
There was one day that half the school didn't even get there because 3 buses went off the road and people who drove to school just said Hell Naw and stayed home.
My bus driver was the female version of Evel Knievel. She took snow, ice and even flood waters as a personal challenge and By God we're goin' through !
I do think it's much safer these days, not because the School Board actually gives a damn, it's just to keep the child endangerment suits to a minimum. The storm hasn't even hit yet and they already cancelled school here for next week, because of the snow, ice and sub zero temps that are coming.
This was my bus driver
