Snow day

So we officially had a snow day on Friday. I was like, "A snow day!" What does that mean. Well when we went for our beginning of the school year meetings for new teachers the school principals mentioned that if there was too much snow then they would start school 2 hours later. They said that they would not cancel school they would just start it later. The principal metioned that they haven't had to cancel school except for once about 3 years ago. I didn't think much about it because in California the weather doesn't usually affect anything in school. I do remember that they canceled school for 1 day when I was in Elementary because there was suppose to be this major rain storm that never happened. It ended up being nice and sunny.

The sudents were hoping we would have a snow day. I didn't think it was going to happen because there wasn't much snow and I had seen even more snow 2 years ago. Besides since the beginning of November it hadn't snowed again until after Thanksgiving day. All the snow had melted away and people were complaining because it hadn't snowed. Then it snowed again on Friday the week of Thanksgiving break. It kept snowing since then. It would come on and off. We still didn't get much snow but I guess we did get enough. On Thursday it kept snowing non stop all day. So when I woke up on Friday my sister got a call and she came and told me that they called from the school to tell me that we were having a snow day and school wouldn't start till 2 hrs later. She said she was hearing in the news that the buses weren't running. Then I got a call from the assistant principal telling me that school would start at 10:25. I wish I would have known earlier that way I could have slept some more but there is no way of knowing something like this.

So we got to go in later but boy were we having issues in the morning. We were having trouble moving Charlie's car because he doesn't have snow tires. We figured he didn't need them because his car had been running fine. It is ok but it does get stuck in a lot of snow.

We went out at 9 to take the snow off of the cars and warm them up. Then he tried to move his car but it got stuck. Apparently we had to shovel the driveway but we figured it would be ok because it didn't seem like there was much snow but we were wrong. So we were there struggling and he was none too happy. I was trying to push the car but that was not helping at all. It slowly moved. He would move the tires from left to right and shoveled snow around the tires. I told him to just take me to work and he should drive my mom's car and I would have my sister pick me up because it was getting late. It was 9:35 and he hadn't gotten ready and I wanted to be at work and we still had to drop off my niece at my other sister's house.

The things we have to go through just to get to work. At that point I was not liking the snow at all. It was not fun. The day before I had to be in the cold snow taking all of the snow off of my car and this happens in the morning. At that point I just wanted the California sun. But it is something new that we have to get accustomed to.

At you would expect there weren't too many students in school. There were many abscences but it was to be expected. My first 2 periods were missing several students but my last 2 periods weren't to bad. I thought it was going to be worse. Well we survived our first snow day.