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This time it's for real. Probably. The snow we were supposed to see yesterday is actually coming today and local weathermen (and weatherwomen) are predicting even more snow than initially reported. The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning until 6pm today with up to 12 inches of snow in the forecast. With temperatures at or below freezing, the snow will be wet, heavy and mixed with ice. Bleh. Strong winds are also in the forecast creating heavy drifting and as meteorologist Ryan Brumer puts it, "a mess coming home for the rush hour." Over 500 flights at O'Hare were canceled this morning as the storm threatens to produce one of the city's biggest snows of the last nine years. And while the worst of it is expected to be over by this evening, brace yourselves for light snow the rest of the week.
We suggest leaving work immediately, picking up a hot chocolate and hot toddy ingredients, and getting home in time to help your elderly neighbors shovel the sidewalk before it gets really crazy out there. --Jacy Wojcik [WGN, S-T, Trib, National Weather Service]
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Is it me or are schools now closing with the threat of snow? When I was growing up in the burbs (OMGWTFBBQ, I'm from the burbs, my opinion is no longer valid!!!!) I can only remember one maybe two snow days.
Oh man, I remember listening to WBBM waiting for my school and when they skipped over my district, I could swear it was a mistake and listened to it ALL OVER AGAIN!
chicago public schools hasn't been closed for one single hour since i started teaching. even this past friday, when it took me over an hour to drive to work (it usually takes 25 minutes), and only 10 of my students showed up, we had school.
goddamnit, all i ever wanted from my teaching certificate was a friggin' snow day.
I grew up in the burbs too (I know, I know, the horror ;)), and I rarely remember having a snow day.
Chicago Public Schools will never close. The mayor feels it is the only place some kids can get a meal, or a warm place to sit or people who listen and care about them. Which is why there is never a CPS snow day.
As a student cps never closed, as a teacher one day on dec 17-18, 2000 we received about 2' shit closed also probly in 67
as to anticipatory closings, i don't drive too much but i hear traffic's gotten a lot worse in the last decade or so also the price of diesel bus gas HIGH