I loved snow days when I lived on the east coast as a little kid. Behind our house was a hill that we would sculpt a sled track on with twists and turns. So fun. What I also remember is that when I would run out to the bus stop to catch the school bus is that if my hair was still wet it would freeze and then thaw out in home room and thus be wet again lol.

Oh man, snow days were the best when I was a kid. I live in Wisconsin and my memory may be fuzzy but it seemed like we had very few snow days, probably because snow is just a way of life in Midwest winters. Usually school only closed when it was a proper storm and just way too much snow to move so people could walk and drive.

Anyway the best snow days always involved my brother and I making some kind of snow fort or taking stab at building an igloo. I also liked sledding quite a bit.

Hope your crew gets enough snow to create something, a snow man, a snow angle, whatever it is.

Enjoy!

Snow angels! Made while dressed in a scratchy wool thick snow suit!

West Virginia, the year I graduated high school, we were off school for a month because of below zero weather and so much ice on the roads. We didn’t ordinarily get many snow days from school, back then the bus drivers still used chains on the tires. We lived in a very rural county with plenty of back roads to traverse on the bus route. We got on the bus at 7 am and rode for an hour and a half to school, getting home around 5 pm. No phones in our particular area, we would get on the bus and picked up kids until we got to the closest phone. Then the driver would call in to see if there was school, if not, he took us back home. He was our closest neighbor and kept the bus at his house. That’s how all the rural busses operated back then.

Malibumark, yes those awful snow suits. I was a tall kid too and so the sleeves and legs were always too short. So I’d have “snow burns” around my wrists and around my legs just above the top of my snow boot. Wet and cold and not giving a damn, haha!

Mtd, usually it’s the dangerous below zero days that create “snow days” here it seems, because of the kids who have to wait for buses outside.

Yeah being rural makes it even harder. I lived in the city and there was really well established infrastructure to deal with bad weather.

recent arrivals from snow country like to laugh at what keeps us off the road. "in milwauke, we'd call this, "a flurry."

here, the opportunities to have snowball fights and make snowmen are few and typically only last a few days, if that long. we ain't scared. we're seizing the moment. let's close down the town and party! ! !

Being I live in Milwaukee, I don’t disagree, haha!

I agree about seizing the moment and cuttin’ loose!

Oh yes love the snow days when i was a kid. My eyes pealed to the TV to see if my school would be closed that day. If so i would say WOOOPEEEE!!!! and then go back to sleep lol.

Snow days all around. School was cancelled for today last night during dinner and there was much excitement.

I remember as a kid in Ohio listening to the radio during breakfast as they would list school closures, waiting anxiously to hear my school. The joy at hearing school was cancelled was beyond measure.

I remember my father pulling me on my sled in the middle of the street when I was in elementary school one year. I looked around in wonder that I was riding a sled in the street. No cars driving by.

OMG! The hoops and hollers of all us kids on the bus was deafening when we finally reached the nearest phone and found school cancelled. The poor driver! His name was Ralph, he treated us all like we were his kids. He would be grinning from ear to ear and never told us to shut up when we yelled like that. He knew we were happy. Then he just turned that big bus around and took us home! Sled riding, snow angels, and I remember those welts the snow left on my legs too! One day I smashed into and old wood stove base with the sled and darn near killed myself. Good thing it was there though, I might have took out the whole building it was propped up against.

this is my first year using buses in a guardian capacity, but the biggest change in the rural bus system from the rural buses i used back in the 60's is the instant communication of cell phones. even our driver, "nate mate" has one. as do half the kids on the buses. nate mate's bus has radio back up, to boot.

remember when we felt safe leaving home without remote connectivity? i always had my dick tracy watch in the 60's, but it's signal was a might unreliable.

Our bus driver always had the older boys help him put the chains on when needed. He was the one thing that cemented our safety. Never took chances when it came to our safety, especially since there was no way to communicate in our area. He was one of a kind for sure. We didn’t have telephone service till I was a senior in high school in 1975. No radios on the bus back then either. Thanks for the post arfie, it brought back some great memories.