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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They cancel based on FORECASTS.

Forecasts are predictions based on models, which are not guaranteed.

This isn't that hard to understand. I don't get why people get their panties in a bunch because a forecast is wrong. Do they not understand what a forecast is? 
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Don’t you think they should cancel based on the actual conditions? They could have cancelled all activities for today IF it actually started sleeting or the conditions were bad. Same for school. Forecasts are more often wrong than right.[/quote]

The Titanic doesn’t turn on a dime.

If you wait until the snow/sleet is actually falling to make the call, by the time you warm up the buses and get them deployed, you’ve got kids on buses out on the road in the worst of it. Or kids stranded at school because parents can’t get there on short notice. 
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For today??Saturday??[/quote]

+1 Making the call countywide makes sense for deciding whether to open on time/delay/close schools for instruction. For activities? Good lord they need to trust individual facilities to make the call. We attended three different activities today. Thankfully the ones in the afternoon were not county operated. It can be done.[/quote]

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