Comments on: UPDATED: Decatur Schools Closed Tuesday

By: EC

EC — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 01:44:33 +0000

This isn’t the North. School was closed. It’s over with. Glad this wasn’t a big deal to some of you. You’re not everyone.

By: Al

Al — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 01:00:04 +0000

Sheesh. I can almost understand Monday’s cancellation: It may have been too icy in the morning. Today, though–that was ridiculous. Parents know how to dress their children for cold weather, and as relatively cold as it was this morning, a body would have to have been outside for a long time without clothes to have gotten frostbite. You can’t get a cold just from being cold, so what’s the big deal.

Disclaimer: I lived in Boston for 20 years. They don’t close nothing up there unless they know for sure that there’s going to be at least 4″-6″ of snow. People dress for the cold and they deal with it. Sure, they complain louder than any other people in the nation, but when you’re shoveling snow for six hours only to have a plow bury it all in hardened slush, you get to whine. I know that CoD does not have the resources to deal with snow, but a day of cold weather isn’t worth closing over.

By: brianc

brianc — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 21:53:09 +0000

DeKalb and others are opening tomorrow, so I’d be surprised if Decatur doesn’t open too.

By: LDMBnot

LDMBnot — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 21:38:32 +0000

oh no – predicting another call from ms robo call.

By: At Home in Decatur

At Home in Decatur — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 21:28:53 +0000

According to weather.com, it’s 27 degrees F in Decatur right now and will go down to a low of 18 degrees overnight. At 7 AM, it will still be 18 degrees. By 8 AM, it will be 19 degrees and by 9 AM, it will be 22 degrees. It will go up above freezing about noon. It will reach a high of 41 degrees at 3 PM. No precipitation is predicted all day.

Do we have school tomorrow?