White Wonderland

Meanwhile the Canadians are calling the Americans over-reacting pansies.

@FTKnight So are the Finns. Seriosly, if Finland had "snow days", we'd stay out of school the entire winter, every winter

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@EiJuostaVeitseen I know what you mean, for those of us who can measure Snow in feet not inches, A snow day means the Schools doors are buried deep enough that finding them will take a while.

@FTKnight Not all Americans. Here in MN, we call people down south the same. We are colder than most major Canadian cities, and our snowfall would fall somewhere in the middle. Maybe below average for Canada, but not by much, and it comes in bunches, so we're used to dealing with it. Snow and cold have to be pretty bad to faze us, it's not like Atlanta, where an inch completely stops the entire city.

The world record for most snow in a day is in Colorado, not in Canada (the US record is actually more than 1/3 higher than the Canadian record, and is actually near people, it's significantly closer to a city of 100K than the Canadian record is to a town of 1/10 that). And places like the UP Michigan, upstate NY, and of course the Rockies and Sierra Nevadas, get snow that rivals the snowiest parts of Canada, also measured in feet, and most of them don't cancel school for any amount of snow.

Yes, there definitely are parts of the US where they freak out about snow or cold, and they do deserve scorn, but there are lots of places in the US that are as winter-capable as Canada. There certainly are a higher percentage of winter weather wimps in the US, but in absolute numbers, we have more people that can handle anything Jack Frost can throw at us (it helps that the US has 10 times as many people, I just picked a handful of states where the entire state gets both a significant amount of snow and bitter cold, and I got more people than live in all of Canada, and I didn't even include upstate NY, which has tons of hardy winter folk).

@dumdristig Wow, I'm surprised on how many fellow Minnesotans there are on here. You're right. For many schools, they don't cancel until I believe 40° Below, or at least a foot or more of snow.

Well, I, for one, am happy that we don't usually have a shit ton of snow. I hate snow... and the cold...
But I will never forget the time we had a Brazilian exchange student in our class, and it started snowing lightly outside. The dude was absolutely enchanted, he said he had never seen snow before^^ He even filmed it to show his friends at home

*avengers theme*

Then in Australia what the fuck is snow

@Girldownunder I can agree with you there
Meanwhile in South Africa what is this snow?

One time i had to walk to school in waist high snow because they didnt call a snow day, my bottom half was numb for a while (In Canada)

@CanadianDoritos I can relate. I haven't had a 'snow day' in eight years.

@TheEpicGabriel0
Only in Canada


Never had a snow day never had a weather related time school except for a sandstorm that one time ^-^

@CanadianDoritos Snow days just baffle me. We don't have those because it would mean we can only go to school in the summer.

*Laughs in Canadian*

Being a Texan, this is not the case in Texas

@ApplesRock we had some snow in Houston this year

I'm afraid, you're going to have to be a lot more specific. In the American South, society will literally shut down if there are two inches of snow (5cm.) Utah on the other hand will happily plow through seven feet (2m) of snow without even closing down the schools.

@CarlSailor Wait till Alberta, Canada, boy. Here, not a single day of school's been canceled, and we got 76 cm (~3/4 m, or about 2.5 ft) since February 1st.

We literally have mountains of snow this year, and it's awesomely scary.

*laughs in the north of America where I have seen over 4 feet of snow and still had school*

@MoonfeatherMainer we had a snowstorm and got about 20 cm of snow and school was canceled for 4 days

it just rains a lot in ireland...