August 24, 2007
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That's a new one.
School's been canceled due to heat?
No, not here.....Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Public School system canceled classes both yesterday and today due to temperatures "flirting" (as CNN put it) with 100°.
Mercy Maud! If Fort Worth started canceling classes every time it approached the century mark, we'd have a remarkably short school year.
Let's not hear any more comments about us canceling school for what northern areas consider common amounts of snow and ice, that's all. Apparently it's all relative, isn't it?
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LOL! Amen, it's all relative, that's for sure!
Maybe the schools don't have AC. That is the only thing that would make since to me.
I'm sure they don't, but Fort Worth schools weren't air conditioned when *I* was in school, and it never shut because it was 100 degrees.
We had open windows, open transoms, the occasional wasp and bee in the classroom to wake everyone up, clothes sticking to our backs, and we'd accordion pleat sheets of paper to make fans.
I'd forgotten those fans until now! What a blast from the past.
To be fair, I daresay it's largely because it's become such an air conditioned society, with the overwhelming number of cars having a/c, most homes having a/c, all businesses having a/c. Being without a/c is probably far more difficult now than it was back then.
A nation of wimps, that's us.
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