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Dec 5-6th clipper threat


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3 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Yup.  His area kept showing up on the clowns

I actually thought he may waste some QPF to get accumulation but he accumulated quick. Once that happen I figured he was good to go. Definitely more than I forecasted. Was 10:1 or better there. 

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18 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

The world would have to be ending for us to get school cancelled in West Hartford. We would mostly get late openings or early dismissals. Now if the Sun is too bright or its above 75 school closes for a week 

Back in the day we may have been dismissed an hour early.... 

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Just now, Great Snow 1717 said:

Back in the day we have been dismissed an hour early.... 

This is a random aside and I take no position on school delays/closings, but are drivers much worse than back in the day? I mean, school buses are getting hit and damn near run off the road in good conditions. I imagine it’s even worse during these marginal snow events where people today still drive like it’s sunny and 70°. 

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Just now, WxWatcher007 said:

This is a random aside and I take no position on school delays/closings, but are drivers much worse than back in the day? I mean, school buses are getting hit and damn near run off the road in good conditions. I imagine it’s even worse during these marginal snow events where people today still drive like it’s sunny and 70°. 

Roads were much worse back then during storms and after storms....During the late fall and winter we walked to school in the dark. School began earlier back then.

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1 minute ago, WxWatcher007 said:

This is a random aside and I take no position on school delays/closings, but are drivers much worse than back in the day? I mean, school buses are getting hit and damn near run off the road in good conditions. I imagine it’s even worse during these marginal snow events where people today still drive like it’s sunny and 70°. 

The uptick in school bus crashes seems alarming and yeah drivers are much worse. I have a friend who works for the DOT and is involved in research on the driving statistics and he said it's been alarming and scary since COVID, particularly with DUI's. People are much more aggressive trying to get around school buses or pass them and even blowing by them when they have the stop sign out. 

But bus drivers have some fault too, particularly on the highway. You can't have school busses on the highway going 40-50 mph, especially when they're changing lanes. There was a time when I would be driving down 91S and entering Hartford, if I caught it at a specific time, there would be two school busses merging onto the highway and getting over 3 lanes to catch the route 2 exit...it was scary because they're doing 30 and everyone else is doing 60-70.

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