On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 08:13:09 -0000, Trevor Appleton wrote:

1 inch of snow here in East Yorkshire and the schools are closed. I
went 7 years in the 60's without a closure once.

I can remember walking to primary school, unaccompanied, through a foot of
snow several times in the second half of the 60's. IIRC the secondary school
shut once, when the heating failed, no snow.

The big problem these days is that a lot of the school staff live too far
from the school to walk in (ie greater than 3 or 4 miles or an hours walk).

No school buses for us today but both schools are open, secondary on a
revised timetable with lessons starting at 1015 ending 1415 but the school is
open for pupils the full normal hours. 50% of the teachers can get in, all
the support staff can get in, they live close enough. Don't know what the
Primary School is doing as we no longer have a child going there but it's not
listed as "closed".

Just come back from dropping the kids off, the road hasn't been ploughed
(yet), has several inches of snow cover, and the occasional drift to a foot
or so but it's dry powder snow so easy enough to drive through in a 4WD...

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Cheers Dave.
Nr Garrigill, Cumbria. 421m ASL.