When I was a kid, on a snowy morning we’d listen to the radio for school closures as we got ready for school in case our school didn’t make the list.
We’re supposed to get 35 centimetres (13.8 inches) by tonight but it wasn’t enough to cancel school.
BELINDA GROVER PHOTOGRAPHY 
January 15, 2026 at 7:26 pm
I too used to stay up late at night, and get up early, to await the reading of the school closures. We had our fair share of closures, but sometimes we also got the disappointing news which still sent us off to school albeit an hour or two later. I did a lot of rooting (and praying) back then, hoping for a day outside playing in the snow.❄️
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January 15, 2026 at 6:27 pm
Yikes! 35cm? That’s a lot and schools are still running? Seems a bit much with the roads the way they are. Great winter capture. 😊 Cheers.
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January 15, 2026 at 6:49 pm
It’s been snowing all day, it sure is pretty; traveling in it is another matter. I saw some kids throwing snowballs but wasn’t quick enough to catch it 😊
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January 15, 2026 at 6:12 pm
Almost 14 inches and not enough to close schools, that’s like Michigan when I was a kid! We were tough kids weren’t we? Thanks for adding the conversion to Inches, Belinda, I don’t know the Metric system at all.
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January 15, 2026 at 4:58 pm
Wow! That’s a lot of shoveling coming up. Too bad they didn’t call a snowday for the kids though. Maybe tomorrow they’ll get a snowday?
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January 15, 2026 at 5:35 pm
They did cancel school buses so I imagine a lot of kids missed school. Still, not the 2 ft+ of snow I remember …
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