I Hate Snow, Part Whatever

Just went through my DVD collection, I pulled Lawrence of Arabia, The Usual Suspects, Fort Apache and The Godfather (boxed set). As a backup I have Team America: World Police and Kill Bill, Vol 1 & 2.

 

This was one big clusterfuck that could've been avoided with a simple two-hour delay, and then a cancellation. But noooooo. Richmond, Henrico and Chesterfield decided to have a dick measuring contest to find out which one would flinch first. Chesterfield won, I guess.

 

I thought the four made cancellation decisions as a unit? That's the way it used to work.

 

They usually do, but the timing of the storm might have affected their decision making. All I know is at 6 a.m. snow was already covering the ground and roads at my house, but Chesterfield decided it best if they turn the buses loose. Glad my daughter doesn't have to be on a bus until 9 a.m. IQ testing is going on this week. Pains me that she's taking a test in a system run by administrators too stupid to know what one inch of snow can do to roads and conditions in this part of the world. Could've gone to school on Friday and Monday, but I guess things were just a little too clear for their liking.

 

NBC12 had live shots of snow covered schools at around 6:45, and the schools were still running buses.

The problem is schools love committees. If you asked a direct question of who decides if schools are open or closed, you could not get an answer. It's 7-8 people hemming and hawing trying to reach a consensus decision.

You need one person to say "closed," but of course you will never have that because that person would catch hell if they say "closed" and the snow never hits.

 

Post reporting that the Northern Region in Virginia (Fairfax County with a smatter here or there in Loudon) has simply canceled the rest of the regular season for its winter sports. They might as well have done the same thing down here, seeing as our schools haven't played much of anything in the last two and a half weeks.

EDIT -- stoopid grammer erur

 

Wow. Wish they would consider something similar here.

 

District tournaments are set to start next week everywhere and there's no chance those schools up there get into their gyms until early next week at the earliest. No point in trying to make up for those missed games. Could make for an interesting state tournament.

 

I had an AD tell me yesterday that you don't need the district tournament.

By Monday, in most of Virginia, school parking lots could be ready to go.

 

You might not need the tournaments per-se, but games will still need to be played to determine regular-season champions, which goes a long way toward determining seeding in regional tournaments. Other than that, the AD is correct. Heck, with the two-division format (that used to be used for football playoffs only) being used in Groups A and AA basketball, there really isn't much to decide anymore, except who gets to host in the first round. After that, games are generally moved to "neutral" sites. Mediocre teams get in, while the truly bad are left at home.

 

I hate living in the worst weather city in America according to Forbes and not getting a snow day!