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i remember this...

Indeed. That meant a morning with Barker's Beauties, snow ice cream, snow forts, neighborhood snowball wars and no parental supervision until late afternoon. Days of glory. Goo-ood Day!

We used to joke that school wasn't closed until the superintendent walked out and fell on his ass. They didn't close much, the longest I can remember is the blizzard of 78. We never used up any of the calamity days.

I remember after I graduated, the district started cancelling school when it was slightly cold, it seemed. They used up their allotted days most years there for a while, and it wasn't anywhere near as bad.

Haha. I found an old 8 track tape that someone had recorded from the radio. It had the school closings on it! LOL! We would play it and try to fool mom with it! She never fell for it, but it was fun trying.

"and now- for the rest of the story". You knew it was early when Orion Samuelson came on with the morning farm report.

Turning the Raisin Bran upside down and shaking the box to get the raisins, timing the milk and then then reversing the pack to read it and keeping my Raisin Bran at max crunch, waiting for the fabled words, "Snow Closure in South Adams county", and then drinking the Raisin Bran milky goodness.