Oh yeah, this weather's great.... if you're a f*ckin Moose..

[AtoMikEnRtiA]

.. If you got fur on your nuts.... This is a fuckin festival.....

[Gallowglass]

I must be sportin' some wool then, cause this weather rocks!

[RobTheDrummer]

We barely got any snow out here in Reno, but it's colder than a mofo!

[Jim Price]

I can't believe that the Altoona Area and Bellwood-Antis School Districts were running on 2-hour delay this morning (Friday)...WHY!!!???

I could understand the school districts up the mountain going on delay, because they likely received more snow and have the winds and white-out stuff to deal with. But here in the valley, we got maybe an inch of snow; but the roads were in fine shape. Yes, it's frigid. So what?

At the expense of sounding like a bitching old-timer here, I remember standing at the bus stop in ice storms, heavy snows and subzero freezing temperatures to go to school. These days, a snowflake hits the ground or the temperature dips below 20, and it's a two-hour delay! Probably some lawyer told the school districts they could get sued if Junior gets frostbite while waiting for the bus...

[JustinGelvin]

im not sure if this is true or not, but i think i remember hearing when i was in high school that if kids had to stand at a bus stop with the temperature staying below 21 degrees, that the district was supposed to put the school on delay till their was an increase in temperature...
I could be very wrong but i somewhere recall hearing that...

[BDR]

I can't believe that the Altoona Area and Bellwood-Antis School Districts were running on 2-hour delay this morning (Friday)...WHY!!!???

I could understand the school districts up the mountain going on delay, because they likely received more snow and have the winds and white-out stuff to deal with. But here in the valley, we got maybe an inch of snow; but the roads were in fine shape. Yes, it's frigid. So what?

At the expense of sounding like a bitching old-timer here, I remember standing at the bus stop in ice storms, heavy snows and subzero freezing temperatures to go to school. These days, a snowflake hits the ground or the temperature dips below 20, and it's a two-hour delay! Probably some lawyer told the school districts they could get sued if Junior gets frostbite while waiting for the bus...

I'll jump on the "old timers band wagon", JP. They announced the delay at my 15-year-old daughter's school (Juniata Valley) YESTERDAY over the loud speaker before they even left school for the day! WTF?!?

It's cold. Put on a coat, hat, gloves and a scarf.

r:>)

[MeYatch]

damn straight. I don't remember ever having a delay because of "cold" and I'm not even that old.

[faeriewench]

i must be an old timer too then, because i distinctly remember standing outside in a nearly knee deep snow drift in my skirt (it was catholic school) for 20 minutes waiting for the bus right on time at 7am. what the crap.

[AtoMikEnRtiA]

im not sure if this is true or not, but i think i remember hearing when i was in high school that if kids had to stand at a bus stop with the temperature staying below 21 degrees, that the district was supposed to put the school on delay till their was an increase in temperature...
I could be very wrong but i somewhere recall hearing that...

no justin, this is accurate... but it's 20... but if the temp isn't supposed to get above 20 during the course of the day... they still go.. which makes zero sense..

but honestly people, wtf? the reel feel temperature was minus 4 this morning down here.. im sure it was worse up there - some schools have children walk.. some are in the country where kids could stand in the cold for 25 minutes if the bus driver is having a bad day -- it's just a simple issue of being safe rather than being sorry..

[Drum-Wolf]

Yeah, I'm also in the "old timer" category. I remember having to tough it out through some hellish winters waiting at the bus stop. We're talking wearing a ski mask, long johns, the whole nine yards. There used to be much more snow too - up past the knees nearly to the waist! But now I think it gets tougher dealing with harsh weather of any extreme as you get older. You just gotta continue to tough it out & wait for it to get better.
I don't see anything wrong with exercising caution for this kids though. Any extreme weather is dangerous! From what I gather, another ice age is ever so slowly developing due to various reasons, some natural, some manmade. It may be even colder than we realize. That movie "The Day After Tomorrow" freaked me out. Keep 'em safe. Right now it's not fit for man nor beast outside!!!!

[ToonaRockGuy]

I always laugh at people complaining about the cold and snow and ice. Then I yell at them. Loudly, so everyone hears.

It's January. You live in Pennsylvania. What the fuck do you expect???

Then I throw a snowball at them, flip them off, and go back in the house.

[Mistress_DB]

hey Kev, did you ever hear that stupid commercial on the radio for the car starters? The one where the guy keeps screaming FREAKIN COLD!? That's me! LOL! I will happily admit I have piss for blood.

[Banned]

Must not be many peeps here who ski or board. Pretty excellent weather for that!

On a side note, how's this for a demonstration of idiocy? After getting home dead tired from a night at Blue Knob last night, I considered leaving my ski gear in the car overnight. But I dragged it inside anyway, figuring it was too cold to let it stay there. Note to self: skis don't mind cold weather. Duh.

[Banned]

Ole schooler here. I lived on a dirt road with a very steep hill about 1 mile from home and the road often went unplowed. Often the bus could not make it up the hill, and he would let us out, and we had to walk the mile home.

And if anyone thinks that there used to be more snow, I have a picture of a blizzard, where the drifts went over our house, and only about the top 3 feet of the telephone poles stuck out. The camera dated the pics, and it was 1964. We had dug a very cool tunnel/cave in the big drift over the house.

[Baceman Spiff]

I always laugh at people complaining about the cold and snow and ice. Then I yell at them. Loudly, so everyone hears.

It's January. You live in Pennsylvania. What the fuck do you expect???

Then I throw a snowball at them, flip them off, and go back in the house.

Exactly. Its like living in California and bitchin about earthquakes.

[HurricaneBob]

When i was your age we didn't have legs to walk to school with...

[ToonaRockGuy]

I used to walk to school barefoot!!! In snow 7 feet deep!! Backwards!!! - Bill Cosby

[RobTheDrummer]

When i was your age we didn't have legs to walk to school with...

I believe it!

[DirtySanchez]

I skipped school and roamed around Hollidaysburg smoking pot all day
in colder weather than this.

[witchhunt]

I wanna see a picture of faeirewench in her Catholic schoolgirl uniform. Please.

[faeriewench]

wouldn't that kind of almost constitute kiddie porn since i was under age at the time?

[Baceman Spiff]

wouldn't that kind of almost constitute kiddie porn since i was under age at the time?

No, I think he's just hoping you still got the uniform.

[witchhunt]

You got it Baceman. And I'm still waiting.

[HBSPro]

Try working midnights, and having to drive around in this shit and stay awake.