Coates said:

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There has been zero precipitation yet and there are multiple districts cancelling Thursday and Friday.

Also, not sure anyone is freaking out, just annoyed. Regardless, your point is ridiculous. Sometimes husband's and wives both work, and have very full schedules and it is more than a giant pain in a55 when school is canceled.

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Hot take:
.edu employees like to get paid not to work and don't care much about impact on other working parents.

Hot take:

Everyone likes to get paid not to work

Area temps are already lower than the short term hi resolution models. And by several degrees, not just say a degree.

And precip is already showing up out in west and southwest Texas ahead of schedule. Both positive trends for a snowy Thursday.

Aries said:

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Hope no one is having a baby or in need of an emergency procedure that an ER doesn't provide. What about all of those people who are just in the hospital recovering & need nurses & aides & their doctors??

My clinic is opening late, that means cancer patients won't get treated if we don't open. I'll be driving in tomorrow, just like I always do.

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No, no - Teslag says what you do doesn't matter and you should stay home.





Either Teslag is trolling or they're just an absolute **** IRL, too.

Couple of factors that go into the decision:

- As the biggest districts go, most others will follow suit. Namely DISD and FWISD. Just so much of an impact on surrounding districts, their staff and families.
- Bussing and access to neighborhood roads to get kids to school and back home; neighborhood streets are typically treated / cleared last; also the risk of bus accidents (some due to other drivers, not just the bus driver)
- Access / transportation of staff. In our district, about 70% of the staff work outside the district, so a lot of staff have significant commutes to make.
- Staff kids. If surrounding districts shut down, that typically impacts staff as their kids are now home and they need to figure out childcare (like the rest of us). The more staff that live outside the district, the higher this probability and impact is.
- If staff is limited in access, you are left to substitutes. In this type of situation, there are few subs that can do the work. See reasons above.
- In Dallas, most local districts are plugged into the Dallas County Emergency network and calls. So the meteorologists, the transportation departments (including TxDOT) and medical / public safety. So when they start making county-wide calls, the ISD's typically follow and match. Influences, right or wrong.

As for Friday, it seems like the main portion of the precip will be Thursday night, ending Fri morning. So if I'd argue, I'd probably argue more for school on Thurs than Fri. But these decisions are typically made conservatively to mitigate risk. Admin would much rather defend a closure and safety than defend a riskier decision to open and there is a bus accident.

Most districts program in "snow days". This may allow these 2 days to go without penalty. But will probably make any future weather closures add those snow days back to the schedule. Meaning that Friday "off" in April may end up being "on", since there are a required number of minutes of instruction dictated by the state.

Hope this provides some context.

Not excuses, just some of the major factors considered.

Same here in Lakewood. Sitting at 32. Supposedly low is 30 tonight. Likely will be a degree less or two.

That said. Cloud cover comes in could slow the drop in temps. I do hope it drops just enough so it snows. That freezing rain crap sucks.

So no one ****ing knows. The evening before

Aries said:

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Hope no one is having a baby or in need of an emergency procedure that an ER doesn't provide. What about all of those people who are just in the hospital recovering & need nurses & aides & their doctors??

My clinic is opening late, that means cancer patients won't get treated if we don't open. I'll be driving in tomorrow, just like I always do.

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You can always make exception for people in certain medical jobs or civil service like utilities/fire/police. But there's a lot of asshats just going to work at normal jobs. Most people's jobs just aren't that ****ing important, though they think they are.

Yeah, big nothing-burger like usual. It's what has come to be expected so it really shouldn't surprise anyone.