This is one of those cases where the forecast seemed a bit frightful, driving through the snow during the previous night looked kind of impressive, but then the morning sun shows that the Snowpocalypse was more than a little underwhelming.
In fairness, the more northerly parts of Wake County did get some ice on the roads and that was enough for Wake County to throw in the proverbial towel on school for the day.
But Nick’s car and the state of the cul-de-sac pretty much shows why it’s more than a little frustrating losing school days to a nothing-burger of an event knowing that if the pattern of very early winter weather in December usually means that January and February are going to be an awful freight-train of one bomb cyclone after another for a few weeks where they’ll end up exhausting an already anaemic budget for snow days in an artificially compressed schedule.
I don’t claim to know all of the answers to this problem but breaking up Wake County into logical divisions for the purposes of deciding whether school happens or doesn’t due to the weather based on where it actually happens rather than just shutting down the entire county even when 90% of them might not have gotten much in the way of winter precipitation.
Maybe it’s a matter of the bus drivers living in the more highly affected areas or the busing of students from one end of the county to the other that is the reason they haven’t solved this problem of a sprawling county where weather can be dramatically different depending on where you are.
But that said, I know someone who is perfectly happy that this Snowpocalypse that wasn’t is going to allow him to go back to bed! 🙂
