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Snow Daze
Thu Apr 08, 2004
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Hi, I'm Bryan Yeaton for The Weather Notebook. Most of the big snows are over for
North Carolina this year. But as Leda Hartman reports, there are some lasting
effects.
LH: School is letting out early at Orange County High in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
The reason? It's snowing ... Well, flurrying. A group of boys are doing their best to have
a snowball fight. They have to scrape the snow off their cars because there's none
sticking to the ground.
North Carolina is known for its mild winters but these kids have had six snow days this
year -- and just as many shortened days. They missed a whole week of school in
January -- all because of five inches of snow. Junior Levi Benville and senior Nick Tilley
say they could have gone to school some of those days.
NT: (3135) Quite a few, actually.
LB: And yesterday. There was nothing on the roads, I didn't think. Not around my
house, and I live out in the boonies.
LH: But school officials would rather be safe than sorry. And that explains why many
North Carolina school districts have used up all their bad weather days. Of course, not
everyone around the country has this problem. In Fort Kent, Maine, Jim Grandmaison
canceled school only twice this year. Once a blizzard left two-and-a-half feet of snow.
And once the wind chill was at 74 below.
JG: (164) Now the following day, the wind chills were about 50 below. And, we
opened.
LH: Back at Orange County High, most students took their Saturday in school in stride.
Attendance, however, was lower than normal. For The Weather Notebook, I'm Leda
Hartman in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
More from Leda tomorrow. The Weather Notebook is produced in New Hampshire,
where the snow is melting much too fast. We are funded by the National Science
Foundation and Subaru of America: Driven By What's Inside.
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