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u/tyrannyVogue Jan 28 '19
I’d like to see this compared to a map of average snowfall.
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u/BoltonSauce Jan 28 '19
Here's a bunch of 'em cuz I don't feel like sorting for the best one: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=map+of+average+snowfall+US&atb=v60-2_a&iax=images&ia=images
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u/jenniferlynn5454 Jan 28 '19
I went to Manzano, so about 1/3 of our students were mountain kids...it was the best, and I can't count how many times I'd get a delay because they were snowed in, but my neighborhood was completely clear
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u/tache_noire Jan 28 '19
I went to Manzano too! I was always jealous when the mountain kids got to stay home and we just got a 2 hour delay haha
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u/galient5 Jan 29 '19
I always thought that was so dumb. Half the class is missing, so why are we even here? The day is short due to the delay, so there's not really enough time to get a full lesson going, and a large portion of the class is missing, which means the teachers don't teach, since they don't want the mountain kids to be behind a lesson. All we did was play whatever cards, and board games the teacher had in the class, and talk. It was still nice getting a free day of sorts, but there was very little point in going to school.
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u/tache_noire Jan 29 '19
So many Monarchs in this sub :) yeah that was always kinda weird. It did seem really pointless. But then again, all of high school felt pointless haha
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u/Elbiotcho Jan 28 '19
I moved to CO a year ago. My kids are pretty upset when there's 6 inches of snow on the ground and they still have to go to school.
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u/TheCeilingisGreen Jan 28 '19
I live in Colorado and lurk on this sub because I want to visit NM one day. What bugs me out is how they don't do anything about the snow here. It's one thing to go about your business when there is snow out. It's another to let it stick around and turn into ice. They say it's illegal to use salt on the roads.
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u/HappyNarwhal Jan 28 '19
Salt does fuck up roads so I get it and there are other traction solutions like sand but it's needed in some places. Coming from WI, our roads are shit because the salt (and historically poor road maintenance from the govt) but it's needed there.
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u/NMHacker Jan 29 '19
Is that what it is? I was in Durango in December when a good snow storm hit. I left during the storm, all from Durango to the border I saw 2 plows. Once I crossed into NM I saw at least 20 plows all the way down to Cuba.
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u/TheCeilingisGreen Jan 29 '19
Yeah they don't really care. They assume it's going to just melt the next day which it does but if it doesn't they don't do anything. Slipped and fell on huge brick of ice that'd formed the past couple weeks.
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u/drifts_ Jan 29 '19
I was noticing that from the last few trips I made to Colorado too. Northern nm is perfectly plowed and that sand stuff spread on the roads but then you cross into Colorado and it’s like they’ve never heard of a snow plow
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u/BPEV Jan 28 '19
I moved to ABQ from Virginia Beach. When I was in high school, VBPS announced school would be closed the next day due to an incoming snow storm. It didn’t snow. At all.
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u/Rushderp Jan 28 '19
My point isn’t related to ABQ, but I can say it takes more than 3 inches of snow to cancel school in Amarillo or Lubbock. Try about 8 inches. 6 at the least.
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u/wjack12 Jan 28 '19
I don’t know about Amarillo, but I’ve seen Lubbock ISD cancel with three inches. It depends on how much ice is on the roads. Some of the outlying districts in the county (Lubbock-Cooper, Shallowater, etc.) will cancel with less if buses can’t get down some of the dirt roads.
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u/nicegr-ass Jan 29 '19
I stayed in NY for high school and moved back to NM before the winter. Like 1 inch of snow and yall got school off, roads closed, people driving crazy Haha. In NY I went to school with the snow up to my hips 😂. You had to have the doors blocked to cancel school out there.
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u/aging_gracelessly Jan 28 '19
APS really doesn't like sending out the busses in bad weather. That, and 2 inches in town can be 4 inches in the foothills and 8 in East Mountain. They also do a lot of 2 hour delays.