I remember waiting for the school bus with a friend 35 years ago. As he shivered, huffed, and puffed his way to the bus stop through the snow, he said, "They should cancel school because it's so cold."
"Fat chance of that," I thought. "Our district is one of the last ones in St. Louis to close, and the superintendent who decides that is from Minnesota; he sets a high bar for when it's too cold or snowy to go to school."
Although I'm a long time removed from those days, I'm glad that students in that district and many others here got to stay home today. When you wake up to a temperature of -5 degrees, that's just not safe.
