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Perspective
Fri Apr 09, 2004
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Hi, I'm Bryan Yeaton, and this is The Weather Notebook. When it comes to snow -- and
snow days -- there are different approaches depending on if you live in the north or the
south. Leda Hartman reports:
LH: Orange County High School in Hillsborough, NC, has had eight snow days this
year. A day for every inch of snow that fell. But the school's public information officer,
Ann D'Anunzio, is making no apologies.
AD: So maybe we are wimps when it comes to the weather. But at least we know we're
wimps. (Laughs) We won't put our kids out there in those conditions.
LH: Orange County High isn't unique. Other North Carolina schools that have used all
their snow days have borrowed a day or two from Spring Break. Some are tacking days
onto the end of the year. But there's no need for that in Fort Kent, Maine, says School
Administrator Jim Grandmaison. Here, the plows run...
JG: All the time. (Laughs) They'll be running all night long. Whenever it starts snowing,
they really are out there just about immediately.
LH: That's not exactly how it is in North Carolina, though. Officials say it's hard to justify
buying the equipment when snowstorms are so rare.
LH: Back at Orange County High, I asked freshmen John Davis and Chris Andrews if
anyone comes to clear their roads...
JD: Sometimes.
CA: Sometimes. They come on a tractor and clear it, other neighbors.
JD: Yeah, Most of the time we don't see regular, like, cleaning things ...
people.
LH: Plows.
JD: Yeah, plows, that's it.
LH: Meanwhile, school officials hope that one make-up Saturday is all they'll need till
spring comes. In Hillsborough, North Carolina, I'm Leda Hartman.
The Weather Notebook is online at www.weathernotebook.org. Our show is funded by
Subaru of America and the National Science Foundation.
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