Grunt
Smash Master
Ok, so first a little background. Vancouver WA rarely gets snow. it's usually a lot of rain all year round. and if we get anything close to snow, it's 3 inches of ****ing ice. So granted no one prepares for large winter storms or anything, the slightest amounts of snow will somehow slick up the roads enough to cause pileups on freeways.
Now as everybody knows, the school district administrators call whether or not the school district is closed because of snow. Yesterday (Wednesday) the forecast was calling for large amounts of snow at about 7-8 am and all melting by about noon. now, Portland, just south of us, and camas just east of us, had about 10x as much snow as we did, so I'm sure the district was worried about the roads freezing over and stuff, so they decided to call school off before it had even started snowing here.
Boy was the forecast wrong.
I don't think a 1/2 inch of snow accumulated for more than a few hours, then melted away slightly afterward. OK, so now I'm stuck in my house with no school and no snow to play in. WTF man. WTF? So I had a small smashfest with some dudes and they left, and the rest of the day sucked.
D:
Well, it was about 6 pm and I decided to see what the scene for tomorrow was going to look like. It was obvious that the forecasters got in trouble for extremely precise forecasting that ended up being wrong. There was no snow and the forecast was 35 degrees and going to rise to about 38 midday and never reach freezing. They were playing it on the safe side and not telling you where it might or might not snow, and just doing a million "weather update!" with someone reporting snow in their area.
Ok, so our area had the least amount of snow of anybody ever in the history of snow days, and we wanted at least some snow to fall and hopefully stick so we could get a REAL snow day. school remained open, and there was no snow. it seemed the forecasters playing on the safe side were right.
I couldn't let that happen. The news HAD to be wrong.
only a few minutes into 1st period I got a rather cunning idea. I grabbed a piece of paper that i ripped out of my "Death Note" and stuffed into my backpack. I then wrote "clear skies" and "above 32 degree temperatures" in it's content. I then sat there with a half smirk on my face, feeling pretty smart. Shortly after the class started their loud remarks. "Oh look, it's snowing!" It was true, the sky had turned a dull grey, and it was obviously cold enough to snow...HARD.
Now This had happened years earlier, freshman year to be exact, and they ended up sending people home right away after school started. So all I had to do was wait. I had done it.
Or had I?
1st period had gone by without so much as a doubt that school was going to close, it was just a matter of when the buses could get back. 2nd period had come along, the snow was falling harder and accumulating more. But...school was still in session. What had gone wrong?
Well this is where the Superintendent of the district comes in. He has a name, but he shall be known as "D" for now. This man whom I have never even seen before was ruining my plan. D was determined to let school be in session for as long as possible, and he would not lose. D even slipped off the road and ended up in a ditch trying to reach the district office, but did he cancel school? No, it's just what he'd expect me to expect him to do. So now D is running on pure hope that the snow melts by the end of the day, and that they didn't ruin their reputation by calling school off when it didn't need to be, again.
3rd period rolled around and snow continue to pile up. people were slipping outside, and a few good inches of snow covered the roads and everything else. I sat there watching cute baby polar bears slide down arctic slopes and baby deer getting it's spine ripped out by a wolf, wondering if D would ever crack, and send us home. As I watched out the window, something happened.
The snow stopped.
HOW? The warm temperatures and clear skies should have died when I wrote them down, and the timing of the first snow fall seemed too coincidental to be a natural phenomenon. The only explanation was that D had overwritten my death request of warm weather with his own! I had absolutely no control over the weather like I had thought. That means that D had this planned all along...If so, then when would warm weather really die? probably not in this lifetime even, I know he would love to see me fail. that means that he has been planning our districts weather since he started in office, this year. The snow melted by the time school got out.
I had been defeated.
I had lost the game.
tl;dr:
day off with no snow, school with lots of snow.
anyone else have stupid snow days?
Now as everybody knows, the school district administrators call whether or not the school district is closed because of snow. Yesterday (Wednesday) the forecast was calling for large amounts of snow at about 7-8 am and all melting by about noon. now, Portland, just south of us, and camas just east of us, had about 10x as much snow as we did, so I'm sure the district was worried about the roads freezing over and stuff, so they decided to call school off before it had even started snowing here.
Boy was the forecast wrong.
I don't think a 1/2 inch of snow accumulated for more than a few hours, then melted away slightly afterward. OK, so now I'm stuck in my house with no school and no snow to play in. WTF man. WTF? So I had a small smashfest with some dudes and they left, and the rest of the day sucked.
D:
Well, it was about 6 pm and I decided to see what the scene for tomorrow was going to look like. It was obvious that the forecasters got in trouble for extremely precise forecasting that ended up being wrong. There was no snow and the forecast was 35 degrees and going to rise to about 38 midday and never reach freezing. They were playing it on the safe side and not telling you where it might or might not snow, and just doing a million "weather update!" with someone reporting snow in their area.
Ok, so our area had the least amount of snow of anybody ever in the history of snow days, and we wanted at least some snow to fall and hopefully stick so we could get a REAL snow day. school remained open, and there was no snow. it seemed the forecasters playing on the safe side were right.
I couldn't let that happen. The news HAD to be wrong.
only a few minutes into 1st period I got a rather cunning idea. I grabbed a piece of paper that i ripped out of my "Death Note" and stuffed into my backpack. I then wrote "clear skies" and "above 32 degree temperatures" in it's content. I then sat there with a half smirk on my face, feeling pretty smart. Shortly after the class started their loud remarks. "Oh look, it's snowing!" It was true, the sky had turned a dull grey, and it was obviously cold enough to snow...HARD.
Now This had happened years earlier, freshman year to be exact, and they ended up sending people home right away after school started. So all I had to do was wait. I had done it.
Or had I?
1st period had gone by without so much as a doubt that school was going to close, it was just a matter of when the buses could get back. 2nd period had come along, the snow was falling harder and accumulating more. But...school was still in session. What had gone wrong?
Well this is where the Superintendent of the district comes in. He has a name, but he shall be known as "D" for now. This man whom I have never even seen before was ruining my plan. D was determined to let school be in session for as long as possible, and he would not lose. D even slipped off the road and ended up in a ditch trying to reach the district office, but did he cancel school? No, it's just what he'd expect me to expect him to do. So now D is running on pure hope that the snow melts by the end of the day, and that they didn't ruin their reputation by calling school off when it didn't need to be, again.
3rd period rolled around and snow continue to pile up. people were slipping outside, and a few good inches of snow covered the roads and everything else. I sat there watching cute baby polar bears slide down arctic slopes and baby deer getting it's spine ripped out by a wolf, wondering if D would ever crack, and send us home. As I watched out the window, something happened.
The snow stopped.
HOW? The warm temperatures and clear skies should have died when I wrote them down, and the timing of the first snow fall seemed too coincidental to be a natural phenomenon. The only explanation was that D had overwritten my death request of warm weather with his own! I had absolutely no control over the weather like I had thought. That means that D had this planned all along...If so, then when would warm weather really die? probably not in this lifetime even, I know he would love to see me fail. that means that he has been planning our districts weather since he started in office, this year. The snow melted by the time school got out.
I had been defeated.
I had lost the game.
tl;dr:
day off with no snow, school with lots of snow.
anyone else have stupid snow days?
