the famous 2 hour delay ...

the threat of a 'winter storm' has been looming since late saturday night. On sunday morning they were running the thing along the bottom of the tv (which mark HATES because this makes the tv show smaller) giving a pre-warning for what the storm warnings would soon be ... ice storm, wind warnings, sleet, snow, freezing rain, arctic air streaming in from the north.

It is now tuesday night, and the temperature has dropped from 55 to 25, we have had maybe 5 snowflakes, 1 hour of light misty rain, grey skies and a little bit of wind.

tomorrow, school will start 2 hours late! what a great thing - sleeping in, and nate still gets to go to school! The down side is that preschool is cancelled.

since Ian will be home tomorrow, he can help me restuff the christmas cards. They currently are unstuffed because he found out they had pictutres in them, and he wanted to see the pictures, so he started opening the christmas cards. Thankfully they were not yet sealed, but he did open ALL of them. Funny thing is every single christmas card had the same picture in it. now i have a pile of cards, already addressed envelopes, and sort of crumply pictures to stuff! Thanks, ian.

growing up outside of chicago, i remember no such 2 hour delay. We rarely ever even had a snow day. It would have to have snowed 12" or more before anyone would even consider calling it a snow day.

In Evansville, school gets called rather often, for any number of reasons, and usually on 2 hour delay days, they end up calling the whole day. The 2 purpose of the 2 hour delay is that so the roads can warm up and maybe melt a little ice off and then the busses can travel more safely. So does this mean that on 2 hour delay days, they will send a bus to pick up our kids? We don't have a bus any other day, so why should we have to wait for the roads to be safe for the busses if we don't even use them? hmmmmm ... by we, I dont just mean the moms that dont want their kids riding on public transportation. I mean all of the kids that go to catholic schools here. There are no busses for catholic schools, so if the roads aren't that bad, couldn't we just drive our kids to school like we every other day?

No way, as i am geting ready to post this, there is some weather starting out there. maybe those weather guys will get lucky after all!