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

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

My coach style commuter bus was fishtailing like mad, and almost didn't make it up a hill. It's heavier than school buses, and the driver is more professional. This was the 2:45 bus, which didn't arrive at WFC until 3:05, still normal afternoon bus time for some schools. This is not mild weather, even if, when we were kids we did walk ten miles to and from school up hill both ways with only old rags for shoes.

I missed being in school for that snowstorm by a tiny bit, alas. Although it sounds like one I was stuck at tysons corner mall for. The thunder and lightning was one of those things that sticks with you. Lewis Black has a great routine about thundersnow.