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[W5FL]

Bird,

When we moved to California, we were surprised that they had HOT days off in the school system. Since the temp is so moderate, many of the schools are not air conditioned. If the temperature reached a certain temperature by 10:00, the dismissed all the school childeren and sent them home. In Texas, we had only heard of snow days, and there weren't many of those.

 

[Bird]

Wen, I don't recall school ever closing for weather when I was a kid (maybe it was just so long ago I've forgotten)./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif And of course the school wasn't air-conditioned. And I don't believe I ever heard of having school days off for heat. I do remember my dad telling about moving from Oklahoma to Baltimore when I was a baby and he took a job with the Social Security Administration there. He said they told him they closed the office and sent everyone home when the temperature got to 90, and for an Oklahoma farm boy who worked in the fields when it was over 100, he thought that was ridiculous until it happened. He said with the humidity there, when it got to 90, you just went to a city park and sat under a shade tree until the sun went down. And of course we didn't stay in Baltimore very long before going back to Oklahoma.

Bird