What are we teaching these kids?

SEE PHOTO AT RIGHT:

As a frame of reference, this is how much snow it takes to close schools in Southern New Jersey.

That's the view from my front porch at precisely 7:01am today. (Breathtaking, ain't it?) You can't tell, but the overnight snow had already changed over to rain and the schools had been closed for a few hours already - much to the glee of parents everywhere, who are now either stuck at home with their rotten kids or forced to find a place to store them so they can go to work.

You're right if you think it's about an inch of snow.

It was enough to send people into a mild panic and cause drivers of 4-wheel drive vehicles to drive slower than people in regular automobiles - like me.

You're right if you're asking yourself why they bothered to buy the damned thing if they're going to drive it 15 miles per hour in an inch of snow.

I yell at them through my windshield.

It rained the rest of the day and it's raining a little even now, at 8:15pm. That means that the roads will be skating rinks tomorrow morning when the temperature goes down to 22 degrees overnight.

The schools will be open.

You figure it out.

I'll be stuck behind a guy in a Hummer doing 12.

Yelling at my windshield.