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nebuladrifting t1_j70rqqq wrote

Reply to comment by Diligent-Pizza8128 in Providence schools closed Friday due to bitter cold | WPRI.com by bradshaw1992

Grew up in Minnesota and had less than one snow day a year. A foot of snow? No problem, the snow plowing operations are world class and all the streets will be cleared. –20° windchill? Better layer up because that accounts for a quarter of the days in January! It took full a full whiteout blizzard or colder than –50° windchill during school hours for school to be canceled. Kids these days smh lol

Edit I was half asleep when I wrote this and it’s only a half serious comment so everyone can just calm down, and also I thought this was for all of RI, not just Providence so this is fair

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Diligent-Pizza8128 t1_j71ekl4 wrote

Sure, I hear you. But this isn’t Minnesota. People could quite possibly die here from the weather we’re about to have.

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nebuladrifting t1_j71umwa wrote

I was gonna argue with you but seeing as this morning is deceptively warm compared to what it’s going to be like when they’d get out of school, I can see kids not dressing for –10 windchills when they leave for class this morning

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FoleyisGood t1_j71ifkf wrote

literally nobody cares how you are so much tougher than kids these days going to school in -20 windchill.

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Mountain_Bill5743 t1_j73ve13 wrote

In 2007, the districts didn't make the appropriate call and students were stranded on school buses in a snow storm. Several people were fired too over this debacle. So, these days, the school districts would rather play it safe.

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