This weather is awful...its destroyed my chest and skin, my nose is a mess, and I'm continually exhausted. I walk a mile to work, so you know it's not fun. I'm a teacher too, and the policy towards snow days this season has been a disaster. No work gets done on snow days...it's a baby sitting day, even in HS. Today maybe half the kids were out, but we did well with maybe only a 1/4 of the teachers out. Some days half are out. When my kids were small, even though our school was a block away, we kept our kids home on snow days. My wife would call the principal to find out how many teachers were out. What's the point of sending kids to school to sit in an auditorium and watch the Little Mermaid all day?