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I'm glad I haven't finalized the 2014 handbook yet. I need to add a paragraph about considering ability to pick up (if I feel that conditions at pick up time will be too bad, I reserve the right to close early like the schools do), and about late fees still applying in the case of bad weather.
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I still charge. My reasoning is that we don't have snow days built into our school calendar here. So what they end up doing is using another day that school was supposed to be closed to make up the day. I follow the school schedule so that means that I would now need to be open on a day I was originally scheduled to close. So it's a trade off.Comment
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-22 to -50 F is our usual winter temps... along with the average snowfall of 3-5feet. Snow days are UNHEARD of here - life goes on!
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: I always laugh when others complain about their weather. 
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To the PP from Canada, I hear you!
If MY STATE EVER held a state of emergency it'd have to be extremely severe and if they did so, that would mean that if people were caught driving, they'd be ticketed. That means, by LAW, I would have to close my business, because in opening, I'm saying it's ok to be on the road when I'm not.
This happened in my state (the ENTIRE state, actually) in 1996. We got snowed in and could not open our front door. Very RARE occurrence, but the snow was actually taller than me (I was not quite a fully grown teen and I'm only 5'2 now,) We lost all power, heat and no one was ALLOWED on the roads. People were ticketed. It was one of the worst blizzards our state had ever seen. And we're used to horrible storms, but nothing this insane. It's been almost 20 years now, so we're probably due for something insane again in the next few years.
Now, I think the difference is that we're prepared. We know how to dress and we know when it's OK to prep trucks and when it's time to whip out tire chains and bags of sand.Comment
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I haven't read all of the responses yet but when I lived in Ohio I always wondered why in Kentucky they went nuts over the very little snow they got sometimes. Then my husband worked in New Hampshire/Vermont and they got sooo much and were experts at going on about business. The difference? In a place where there isn't much snow the city doesn't invest much if anything in snow removal equipment. It is cheaper to just close things down for a day I guess. It would be a waste of money. In New Hampshire, however, they get so much that good equipment makes sense and is a good investment.
It was also kinda funny (as he was up there a long time) that as soon as there is no snow on the ground they are in shorts! We were in winter coats in Ohio. It is all what you get used to I guess.
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I will be glad to take some of your snow but no less than 5". My state (SC), shuts completely down if one snowflake hits the ground. My center follows the school incliment weather policy so once we find out schools are closing, we immediately call the parents to pick up. We then tell them we are closed the next day. Not one parent complains because 99% won't go to work because of the weather. I'm sorry some of you have to deal with this. I guess common sense went the way of the Dodo.Comment
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I have the children of a guy that plows snow and the child of an ER nurse. I'm open. The other two children have a ditzy 22 year old mother that would probably run around all day with the kids in the car so they are better off here.I see little people.Comment
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our low is 14 for this weekend. im done complaining about our cold! you ladies stay warm.....Comment
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we are in the same conditions here yet I had 3 kids here…. 1 parent is a SAHP and the other 2 had parents who were going to "work from home" but apparently that means hanging out on FB all day posting about how bad the weather is and how you had to shovel your driveway, etc.Comment
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