Ok, once again, while most schools in North Texas have announced they’re closing today due to inclement weather and dangerous driving conditions, SMU have announced that we will be open. Hmmm, I wonder if SMU ‘s weather meteorologist lives here in N. Texas!? I mean snow and ice continues to fall. It’s currently 16˚ F (-9˚ C) outside and temperature continues to drop. You don’t have to be a meteorologist to interpret that as dangerous driving conditions!
Last week, the surrounding cities of the Dallas-Fort Worth areas were immobilized due to unusual bitter cold weather that brought lots of snow and ice. I know it’s a laughing matter for some of you because it is nothing compared to what people up North have had to endure. Still, it was plenty of snow and ice for us. As my niece Lia in Boston commented last week, we, Dallas people were complaining about little “snow flurries.” Lol. 😉 But driving conditions were really treacherous, thus resulting in all schools being shut down.
Today is one more day added to that shut down, for most. The truth is, I am not too thrilled about the school closures. I understand that nature always takes precedence, but I would like for the school systems to have an alternative plan in these types of situations. For example, they could plan an online course or something. Nowadays, everyone have the capability of teleconferencing. I mean a whole of week of school closure is an economic cost to all parties, whether directly or indirectly.
Now, I am not complaining. I’m just expressing my opinion!
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