-=> Quoting Mark Hofmann to Nancy Backus on 08 Feb 14  10:38:17 <=-   
      
    NB>> And they are woefully unprepared for this sort of weather... no snow   
    NB>> emergency preparations or plans, no major snow removal equipment... and   
    NB>> no home snow shovels... and so on... But I remember how excited we all   
    NB>> were, the one time (in 4 years!) it snowed when we lived in Mississippi,   
    NB>> and how we enjoyed playing in it... everything shut down totally...   
      
    MH> Yes, I'm sure that was a really tough situation down there with all   
    MH> the snow and nothing to clear it.    
      
   It appears that some of the states are learning from the disaster the   
   first storm was... I hope they are weathering this one ok...  :)   
      
    MH> The school system in our county has been really off this year on   
    MH> weather related issues.  They opened on time on Monday right before it   
    MH> started snowing heavy.  Buses were picking up kids and it was looking   
    MH> like a blizzard with covered roads.  Then just as they get to school,   
    MH> they close them and sent them back out in the middle of the storm   
    MH> instead of waiting for it to end in the early afternoon.    
      
   Apparently the decision makers are more reactive than thoughtful... Had   
   they listened to the forecast, they might have made better decisions...   
   Hopefully they'll learn from their mistakes there... :)   
      
   ttyl        neb   
      
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