This ain't November 11th, 1987.

[acroyear]

The feds are a bunch of wussies.

Intellicast.com:

November 11, 1987 -

a Veteran's Day snowstorm dumped record early snows over the mid-Atlantic with 17 inches at Washington, D.C. This amount of snow is rare in winter let alone the middle of fall. Thunder and lightning accompanied the snow for several hours

The thing was, it was supposed to have stopped snowing by 8am.  Every weatherman (and I mean EVERY) said it would stop. Every school system did an late opening to keep an eye on it.

Except Fairfax.

The snow didn't stop.  It got worse.

Every school system called the day off.

Except Fairfax.

Which had to scrounge to get the busses through the 11 inches that had piled up in less than 3 hours to get the kids out 2 hours (or more) early.

People leaving the Pentagon at noon weren't getting to Kings Park West until 9pm.  I know - I was out there pushing their cars past my house.

So to close early on THIS crap?

sheesh...

Comments

Re: You just triggered a flashback...

[eac.livejournal.com]

Me, too. I had an interview with a William and Mary Alumnus that day. And found out that my grandmother was terminally ill.

(Needless to say, after spending all afternoon stuck on a bus in the snow, and crying about my grandmother, the interview didn't go well...)

(Chantilly, '88)

Re: You just triggered a flashback...

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

yeah, but had it not been, we might not have met...

i'll stick to looking at the bright side, m'kay? :)

Re: You just triggered a flashback...

[eac.livejournal.com]

Oh, let me assure you -- I may have hated that day, but I don't regret JMU or the vaxnerds even slightly.