Do you live in some idiotic neck of the woods where the schools close the instant someone yells "snow!!!"?

I work for a school district, if if the district is closed, our office closed.

I have lived in Kansas for most of my life. I got up this morning, there was a dusting of snow on the ground—maybe, literally ¼ of an inch. Didn’t even cover the whole yard. I got ready for work. I leave. The streets weren’t bad at all. A tad slick in spots but mostly clear. I’ve seen thousands times worse. It wasn’t all that cold, either.

I stopped at a convenience store. The clerk says, “You guys open today?”
I kind of laughed and said, “Well yeah!”
He told me the schools were closed.
I said, “For what??”
....“Snow”....
I get to work, call my coworker and yeah. Office was closed. Apparently in “Weather like this” I was supposed to be watching the news and listening to the radio for school closings. I said, “Weather like WHAT? There is nothing out there!”
Apparently the roads were bad last night. I said, “Well, they’re fine now.”
I was mad, because the BEST part of days off is SLEEPING IN!! Which I didn’t get to do!
Stupid, stupid, stupid.

I think that in all but the most extreme and obvious cases, school should be open, with the understanding that absences are automatically excuses, especially for those coming in from the country. There has been only one day in my life that I thought really, truly justified closing school, and that was one morning in the mid 1990s. When I got up it was -20, and the wind was blowing like a monster making it -50. I didn’t know if they planned to close schools that morning or not, but I made my own call. It went something like, this….“Ain’t nobody goin’ nowhere today!!!! Go back to bed!!!!!” (Insert cheerings….)