you think that's hard? try walking in -50 with snow up to your knees. EVERYDAY.

in Soviet Russia, the school ankles up to your snow.

it was -14 when I walked to school today... stfu

And i bet it was uphill both ways to. Oh boo ******* hoo, quit whining it was a funny prank

-5 and snow to your ancles?! -5 is warm in norway, we walk to school in -25 degrees with tons of snow! we get free from school if it is -30 degrees!

For people commenting on how it's ridiculous that this would cancel school: it's not about where the school is, it's about how prepared it is. In certain warmer areas, they're not prepared for this level of cold, so pipes freeze and take plumbing offline, or insulation fails and the school gets too cold. Then school has to be canceled; not because it is cold, but because the building is unusable. My sister is a teacher in rural Louisiana, and they had school canceled for two inches of snow, because the backwoods roads froze immediately and there was no plan to salt or plow them, so the school had no way to reach them with buses and had to call in the first snow day in decades. Again, it's not certain locations being "wussy," it's all about preparedness.

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you wuss. suck it up! -5 is nothing and snow up to ankles is nothing either.

Hey in the defence of the OP, in Ireland we are used to a very mild, (but very wet) climate. I've heard on the radio that this is our coldest winter since records began. So in Canada, where you grew up with that weather it's normal, but for us it's not. It's rare when we get snow, let alone the amount we have had in the past month. No one I know has even seen this much snow in Ireland, and as a nation we are not equipped for this weather, roads, schools and airports have been shut. So this is new for us....

ok well here in the yukon it was -35 celcius yesterday and we have over a foot and a half of snow so i cant be that bad