Originally Posted by
EastsideAl
How odd. I remember standing out for 20 mins. or so, in below zero temps, in the wind, in the predawn dark, waiting for the Vernor bus to take me downtown on my way to Cass Tech. No one thought anything of it, and there was no expectation at all that schools would close or make any special accommodation for such weather. After all, my grandfather got up even earlier, and went out in the even colder and darker weather to get himself to Chrysler to work. We all survived just fine.
This is Michigan after all; it gets cold [[except for this winter it seems), and dealing with it in the course of your daily life was just a fact of life of living here. If I was too cold, then it was my own damn fault for not wearing enough clothes, and that's exactly what my mother would have said if I whined about it.