Snowpocalypse 2011 (Decatur, Madison, Scottsboro: to move, radio, campus)

[tam314]

We had to make up a few days while I was at South Alabama during Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina in '04 and '05, respectively. They were just tacked on at the end of the semester... although most professors/instructors did whatever they wanted to do.

Also, last year at UAH, we missed a week due to the shooting incident. The entire semester was basically just pushed back one week. As a result, the break between the Spring and Summer semester was a week shorter.

[SouthernBoy205]

Dang! I just hope A&M doesn't decide to make up these few days.

[HB2HSV]

Originally Posted by A&M Bulldawg

Dang! I just hope A&M doesn't decide to make up these few days.

Why? Do you have better things to do beside studying?

[SouthernBoy205]

Having a break!!!!!!!! It's hard work making A's. I need a break and we haven't started yet.

[HB2HSV]

Originally Posted by A&M Bulldawg

Having a break!!!!!!!! It's hard work making A's. I need a break and we haven't started yet.

Breaks? Sheesh, when I was your age, I walked a mile each way in the snow, sometimes knee deep, up hills, both ways, with windchill upto 40 deg below zero, to the library just to study.

[SouthernBoy205]

LOL! After a while, school becomes tiresome.

[zenjenn]

Re: Shuffle vs. shovel..

Yeah, one is just moving it around, the other is moving it out of the way. If I wanted snow off my driveway, I'd choose the second definition.

[hey teach]

Originally Posted by HB2HSV

Breaks? Sheesh, when I was your age, I walked a mile each way in the snow, sometimes knee deep, up hills, both ways, with windchill upto 40 deg below zero, to the library just to study.

I'm not just "laughing out loud", I'm rolling. Reminds me of my grandfather.

[skinem]

Originally Posted by HB2HSV

Breaks? Sheesh, when I was your age, I walked a mile each way in the snow, sometimes knee deep, up hills, both ways, with windchill upto 40 deg below zero, to the library just to study.

You forgot "in the dark"...

[harry chickpea]

Originally Posted by HB2HSV

Breaks? Sheesh, when I was your age, I walked a mile each way in the snow, sometimes knee deep, up hills, both ways, with windchill upto 40 deg below zero, to the library just to study.

Although that sounds like the great Monty Python routine, you describe the paper route I had in Vermont almost to a T. There was a farmhouse at the end of the route. It had a thousand foot driveway near the crest of a rise, where the snow DID drift regularly into the drive above knee deep, and the ACTUAL temperature some days was twenty below zero. Windchill? That crest was brutal. I have no idea what the windchill was, but when I finished the route it often took a half hour soaking in a tub bath before I started to get back warm. The route went down into town and then up past where Ben and Jerry's is now. I almost always bicycled it, even in the snow. Obviously, that would be impossible now, what with all the traffic.

I am not making this up. The effects of that route haunted me for years and were part of the reason I moved south. But did I think what I was doing was unusual at the time? Nah. I had a pretty good idea what the farmers were going through and felt I had it easy.

Edited to add - Yes, skinem, it WAS in the dark. On the usual overcast midwinter days in Vermont, the day arrived late and left as soon as it could.