mathmom's blog

They are talking about snow flurries for NC tomorrow night---and astonishingly, they haven't cancelled school yet.  Some people think we are wimps for cancelling school, but I remember January 2005.  Eleanor, Amanda and I were on our way home from The Little Gym, and a drive that usually took 20 minutes took over 2 hours.  Some kids got stranded overnight at schools.  This was just a 1 inch snowstorm---I'd really rather have cancelled school. On the other hand, I also remember the Halloween blizzard of 1991.  We had over 3 feet of snow at college---but they didn't cancel classes.  I had two classes that day, one math and one econ.  The economics teacher was a recent immigrant from China (although now I think about it, I think she came via Cleveland).  She put on her snowsuit and trekked across fields to get to campus.  My other professor practically lived on campus, just a few hundred feet from the math building.  I was sad that I didn't have any professors who drove