***Official 2024 Weather Thread***
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Probably where the Romulans have parked their cloaked cars.
Yeah, this is certainly something new since I have been out of school. Not sure exactly when the change happened though.
I practiced drilling ur mom.
It's because of the timing. It's scheduled to hit during bus drop off. Your options are:
- Keep students and staff in all buildings stay after school until the weather event is clear
- Dismiss at normal time and hope things go well at drop off
- Dismiss early and avoid all chances of weather, clearing the district of any potential wrongdoing stemming from a kid getting dropped off in lightning.
Forecast models weren't as accurate either, vot with the intensity and the timing.
We are way better at predicting the storms and their timing then 20+ years ago.
It's obviously due to the timing. Storms are predicted to hit right around dismissal time. The last thing we need is a bunch of kids being let out in the middle of tornadoes.
It seemed like June was more tornado season when I was a kid. I don't remember there even being severe storms during the school year. It was always in summer it seemed.
About the same time that personal injury lawyers started putting up billboards every 1/4 mile on the highway.
Yeah but it was easier to hunker down in the one-room school house rather than get the kids out in horse and buggies. Not to mention walking uphill both ways in stormy weather is very taxing.
I don't know how old you are, I just talk **** like that to my dad every chance I get.
KidSilverhair
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Sounds like my wife. She was cooped up in the downstairs bathroom riding out the derecho, hearing our massive old elm tree crashing down in our backyard (almost entirely missing our house, thank god). Now every time there’s a thunderstorm warning anywhere in the county she’s all “we better head down to the basement.”
Me, I was stuck in my car along the side of the highway in the derecho, getting pelted with rain and rocks after the rear window blew in, praying I wasn‘t going to get blown over into the ditch - and I’d still rather go out the front door and watch the lightning.
KidSilverhair
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/Insurance companies hate this one simple trick/
Maybe the closest I have been to a tornado was one that missed my elementary school in November 1960 by a couple of blocks in Manchester, Iowa. We didn't even know about it till later. Little boy me was pretty impressed by the stuff driven into tree trunks when we looked at the damaged houses later. Of course this was the era of "Ooh, seems like tornado weather. Is that a siren? Better go sit on the front porch and watch the west sky!"
your right this is probably the first time in the history of storms that they've hit during the mid afternoon time frame
I don't like how it's going to hit us right when it gets dark.
