For those keeping track at home, our kids were on break from school since Dec X. They went back on January 4th for two days. Then we kept them home that Monday because of COVID. We sent them back but this week they were off on Monday for MLK Day. But since Mississippi experienced more snowfall (8 inches) and colder weather (zero degrees) than usual, school was closed on Tuesday and Today. It will likely be closed all week because the temperatures will get not high enough to melt something like it usually does down here next week.
Now, to be sure, it makes perfect sense that MS doesn't invest heavily in snow removal equipment. If you average 1 inch of snow yearly that typically melts a day later, why spend the money? Reports vary but we don't have snowplows or salt trucks, or if we do, there is only one per county, if at all.
That doesn't mean I have to be happy about it. The amount of snow Mississippi received would not raise an eyebrow back in Chicago. We would have dug ourselves out and the roads would have been plowed in time for Tuesday morning commuters.
Luckily, my kids have discovered that a schoolmate lives kitty-corner to our lot line. So they have had someone to play with outside in this cold. They wore themselves out yesterday and slept through the night without any issues. Well, Boris went to bed early because of a headache which seems to have disappeared today. I'm making sure he drinks more water today to rule out simple dehydration.
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