It snowed in St. Louis yesterday. Luckily, there isn't nearly as much snow here as in states out east. I heard that some places like West Virginia got as much as 27 inches. Here it was more like 5 or 6 inches. It's a good thing that today is President' s Day. A lot of people don't have to work or go to school today.
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In the past, I always thought that were so many accidents in St. Louis because the people don't know how to drive in the snow. There may be some truth in that, but they also do a poor job of plowing the streets. I was out driving for about 45 minutes yesterday and I only saw one plow. That would never happen in Chicago. If they didn't clear the expressways, the mayor would be out of a job faster than you can say Jane Byrne.
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Is is just my imagination or do a lot of natural disasters in the USA occur on slow days. I think that the last really big snowstorm in Chicago occurred on New Year's day when few people needed to be outside. The last big earthquake in San Francisco happened when the Giants were playing the Cubs. Since a lot of people were at home watching the game, there weren't that many people on the bridges that were collapsing. Something to ponder.
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I'm always amused at how quickly schools close do to snow in today's world. When I was going to school, I think that we had one snow day in 12 years. That was the time in 1967 when we got about 29 inches in 24 hours. I remember walking all the way to school through snow dritfs that were over my head and being surprised to find the school closed. Of course, when I was going to school we had to walk five miles to and from school, uphill both ways. We were tougher back then.