Snow Day for JCPS!!!!!

[Robin Garr]

little Shonelle

Umm ...

I hate dating myself and sounding like some sort of geezer, but I am so tired of schools being closed everytime there is an inch or so of accumulation. I don't remember missing this much school over weather as a kid...Did it just not snow during the late 60s and 70's???

As a parent of a high schooler in the Catholic School System, it kind of burns me that the Archdiocese follows whatever JCPS decides to do. My kids went to the neighborhood grade schools and one of the perks was that that they could WALK to school. What a ingenius idea...

My youngest is now at Presentation Academy and I take and pick her up on my way to and from work. This was one of the many reasons we chose Pres. Transportation is not a big deal.

There have been several times during inclement weather conditions this year that I think a late start would have been plenty sufficient for the Catholic School System, but administrators chose to follow JCPS lead.

I hate dating myself and sounding like some sort of geezer, but I am so tired of schools being closed everytime there is an inch or so of accumulation. I don't remember missing this much school over weather as a kid...Did it just not snow during the late 60s and 70's???

City and County schools merged in 1975. Now, JCPS has to take into account the entire county, including the areas that aren't as accessible in inclement weather - the outlying areas. Back in the late 60s and 70s, the City schools could operate as long as the City was passable.

Well I graduated high school in 1978 - we were off for a solid month in one stretch. They added about 10 days at the end of the year and made us stay in class about 90 minutes more each day to make up the lost time. So this is nothing new.

Well I graduated high school in 1978 - we were off for a solid month in one stretch. They added about 10 days at the end of the year and made us stay in class about 90 minutes more each day to make up the lost time. So this is nothing new.

I have heard many stories from my parents about that crazy winter! They were both teaching at the time. I remember seeing photos of our house covered with all that snow and ice. I was not quite yet born.

I-64 was pretty clear at 6:30, but today was the first time I've seen New Lagrange and 264 snow covered this winter. The conditions added 7-10 minutes to my drive.

I think part of the problem today was that local government didn't believe it was going to snow. They didn't brine anything yesterday and didn't have the salt trucks and plows out until later than normal. If they had been prepared I don't think we would have had a problem.

[Robin Garr]

I was not quite yet born.

I was a brand-new reporter at The Louisville Times.

In that post, I had to cover the weather. All of the weather. I had to be the first reporter in. We had 50 inches of snow that winter, not counting an extremely severe ice storm that hit about a week after a 16-inch snow. It was the only time I ever remember in Louisville that snow stayed on the ground all winter, although the previous winter had come close with ice that froze on the streets and stayed for several weeks while the Ohio froze solid from bank to bank so people (in defiance of official advice) were out walking all the way across .

As you noted, Antonia, this was also the first really bad winter after the highly controversial introduction of county-wide school busing in 1975, and school authorities were not about to risk a bad accident on a desegregation bus run.

This winter is nothing like that. But upon closer analysis, I can see why officials had to call it the way they did at 4 a.m. today. I'm sure they're embarrassed to see how quickly it all cleared up, but given the same circumstances at the same time, they'd have to do the same thing again.

As I said in discussion of the previous storm, it's easy to be the Monday morning quarterback. But you wouldn't really want to be the official who said "Let 'em go!" and then got the blame for a fatal bus accident on ice.

[Robin Garr]

I think part of the problem today was that local government didn't believe it was going to snow. They didn't brine anything yesterday.

Not true in the city, Mark. The main streets, and even cut-through side streets, were all brined in Crescent Hill. I came down our street, over Grinstead and down Stiltz, then out Lexington all the way to St. Matthews on clean, wet streets. In St. Matthews, even relatively minor traffic streets like Ridgeway and Massey were clear.

For the record, the National Weather Service was still forecasting only a 20 percent chance of snow for Louisville as of about 9 p.m. We still caught only an edge of a bigger storm, but it was more of an edge than they expected.

I-64 was pretty clear at 6:30, but today was the first time I've seen New Lagrange and 264 snow covered this winter. The conditions added 7-10 minutes to my drive.

I think part of the problem today was that local government didn't believe it was going to snow. They didn't brine anything yesterday and didn't have the salt trucks and plows out until later than normal. If they had been prepared I don't think we would have had a problem.

That makes perfect sense. The crappiness of the roads didn't coincide with the amount of snow that fell when compared to earlier snowfalls.

I was not quite yet born.

I was a brand-new reporter at The Louisville Times.

In that post, I had to cover the weather. All of the weather. I had to be the first reporter in. We had 50 inches of snow that winter, not counting an extremely severe ice storm that hit about a week after a 16-inch snow.

HEY !!! Finally something I remember as well...I was in the Navy and was driving from Cleveland back to my base in Pensacola during that ice storm. I recall stopping somewhere off the interstate west of the Old Sears Building and literally had to kick the car door open it had so much ice on it. Now THAT was a "man's" winter...Something ya'll should be proud of.

Well I graduated high school in 1978 - we were off for a solid month in one stretch. They added about 10 days at the end of the year and made us stay in class about 90 minutes more each day to make up the lost time. So this is nothing new.

Yeah, Mark... I graduated in 1978 also and remember "that" snow... Should have referenced it in my OP. I was a senior in HS and my parents were in Las Vegas for the week... Had a BIG party.at my house..even with over two feet of snow on the ground.. Every

I think part of the problem today was that local government didn't believe it was going to snow. They didn't brine anything yesterday.

Not true in the city, Mark. The main streets, and even cut-through side streets, were all brined in Crescent Hill. I came down our street, over Grinstead and down Stiltz, then out Lexington all the way to St. Matthews on clean, wet streets. In St. Matthews, even relatively minor traffic streets like Ridgeway and Massey were clear.

For the record, the National Weather Service was still forecasting only a 20 percent chance of snow for Louisville as of about 9 p.m. We still caught only an edge of a bigger storm, but it was more of an edge than they expected.

See you folks in the USD complain about pay extra taxes but you get extra service! LaGrange road, Shelbyville road, etc. certainly weren't out our way!

Meant to say that I had a house full of people and a tub of "jungle juice" on ice in the downstairs shower.

What was I thinking??? If my kids did that I'd skin them alive. Our memory sure does get selective with age.

But even at that, I still think our school system overreacts with inclement weather. Particular the parochial and Catholic HSs. This school system is not as dependent on a bus system... Many parish schools do not have buses and very few of the HSs do anymore. Most parochial school kids live in the general school area. So I really think the JCCS school administration should make an independent decision from JCPS.

For the record, the National Weather Service was still forecasting only a 20 percent chance of snow for Louisville as of about 9 p.m. We still caught only an edge of a bigger storm, but it was more of an edge than they expected.

For the record...on a day to day basis, I'll still take the forecast from the good ol' National Weather Service staffed by loyal civil servants ANYDAY over the breathless cries of pending doom and disaster from those jack wagons on local TV. (Once again...Just sayin').

For the record...on a day to day basis, I'll still take the forecast from the good ol' National Weather Service staffed by loyal civil servants ANYDAY over the breathless cries of pending doom and disaster from those jack wagons on local TV. (Once again...Just sayin').

Amen to that.