Massive Blizzard Currently Hitting Metro Detroit

[Hermod]

You know, going to school in Detroit 1944-1954, I do not remember the schools ever closing for snow. The bigger kids just walked in front and made a path through the drifts for the five and six year olds.

[Zacha341]

^^^ Make a path! That's how it was for my going to grade school and beyond in the seventies. They had hot chocolate waiting for your arrival!

However, there's more congested roads now [[withstanding our declining population). The few schools remaining are spread out - rarely walking distance.

Public transpo on DOT is abysmal and very slow on a nice summer day, so the HS teens struggle to get to their schools. Solution: close the schools.

[iheartthed]

You know, going to school in Detroit 1944-1954, I do not remember the schools ever closing for snow. The bigger kids just walked in front and made a path through the drifts for the five and six year olds.

Seems to happen with more frequency since the city took all that criticism for that New Year storm in 1999. IIRC, the storm hit on a Sunday, the day before students were to return from the holiday break, and DPS cancelled classes until the following Friday. They reopened schools on Friday even though they hadn't really cleared any of the snow from the roads, and then opened again on the following Monday. But after Monday they ended up cancelling classes for the rest of that week because there was still snow everywhere.

[Zacha341]

Here's a DetroitYes trip down memory lane of the 1999 blizzard including a comment from someone working for DPS...

Seems to happen with more frequency since the city took all that criticism for that New Year storm in 1999....