Posted by Penny on July 17, 2003, at 12:19:19
In reply to southern drivers » Penny, posted by yesac on July 17, 2003, at 10:51:20
Yeah, I lived in W.Va. for a while growing up and it took a flood that nearly wiped out my town to cancel school.
UNC actually had a really good record for not cancelling classes until recently. When I was a student the rumor was they had not cancelled classes in a really long time and that the last time they cancelled it was due to war. I dunno. My sophomore year (I think - might have been junior year...) we had a pretty big snowstorm right as folks were coming back to school for the spring semester. I drove from the coast back and it started snowing about 45 minutes after I left home and the rest of my drive, which would have normally taken about 2.5 hours, took me the rest of the day due to snow and crazy drivers, and the fact that I was driving a Chevette! ha! My roommate didn't make it back in time for classes to start because they had closed part of the interstate and her mom wouldn't let her drive. I had nothing to eat in my room and the stores here were all closed. It sucked. I made it to class the first day, as they didn't cancel them, but on day two it iced over and people started complaining so they made classes 'optional', meaning that no one went. Oh - the heat in the dorms, controlled by the physical plant on campus, weren't on yet, so I was freezing with no food. Joy.
I'm thankful that they finally have enough sense to close the university when the roads around here get bad as folks don't know how to drive on icy/snowy roads and we don't have the resources to get them cleared as quickly as needed, though they are getting better. However, I'll be glad when they realize that it's really really stupid to make state employees make up work time when the university is closed!!! It's not our fault it's closed, why should we have to make up the time or take it as vacation??? ARGH!!!!!! Sorry, that's another story...
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