Howdy! Joe,

I seen the TV News this morning and one article was about West Virginia
Schools in Jeffrson County, WV were Closed because of Snow.

The TV Station I saw the News on is in Louisville (Jefferson County), KY.

I went to Kindergarten through 12th Grade at Schools in Louisville.

One Winter day (1958?) when I was in the Eight Grade of Junior High School
and an announcement on the Speaker System said that because of the bad
weather that day, anyone who could not make it to School that day wouldn't be counted as an absentee, but the Students who already arrived at School would attend their regular Classes that day.

To my memory that was the only time I remember a Snow Day at Schools where
I lived at.

When watching the News story I thought about You and I was wondering since WV (I think) has harder Snow's than Kentucky does, when You attended School were there any Snow Days where You didn't have to go to School?

I looked on the map to see where Jefferson County, WV was, and saw it is at
the Far Eastern part of WV, and where You are in Huntington is on the Western side of WV.

Miles away from You, but did Huntington get a lot of Snow Wednesday Morning?

The TV News said there was a little Snow overnight but it changed to Rain.

Snow is expected to come back again in a few days.

Being a Riverman I thought about when all of the Snow that fell in the
Eastern U.S.A. Up River from Me melts, as it comes down the Ohio River it
will raise the water level quite a bit as it goes by here.

I ask Daryl all of the time to keep any Bad Weather going through Arkansas
"IN" Arkansas and away from Me and You.

Joe, could You devise a way to hold back that River Water as it goes past Huntington to keep the Ohio River down here from rising too much?
Thanks In Advance.

73 de Ed W9ODR . .

P.S. This Tagline is for Daryl.

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I went to Kindergarten through 12th Grade at Schools in Louisville.

I went from 1st through 12th grade in the JCPS.

One Winter day (1958?) when I was in the Eight Grade of Junior High School and an announcement on the Speaker System said that because of the bad weather that day, anyone who could not make it to School that day wouldn't

be

counted as an absentee, but the Students who already arrived at School would attend their regular Classes that day.

To my memory that was the only time I remember a Snow Day at Schools where
I lived at.

When I went, they had just started bussing. IMHO, the necessity to have
more busses on the road, and more kids being sent further away from home
than they had been, lead to more snow days, even though the weather was supposedly milder in the 1970's-'80's, on average, than before. Granted,
there were two really bad winters in my early school years. :)

Being a Riverman I thought about when all of the Snow that fell in the Eastern U.S.A. Up River from Me melts, as it comes down the Ohio River it will raise the water level quite a bit as it goes by here.

As a young kid, before I learned that, I remember being confused when we'd
have river flooding and it had not rained in days. That, of course, was
why.

Mike


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Hi Ed --

I seen the TV News this morning and one article was about West Virginia Schools in Jeffrson County, WV were Closed because of Snow.

Don't doubt it.

To my memory that was the only time I remember a Snow Day at Schools where I

lived at.

I never recall having a snow day in school.
Of course in our day schools were in neighbourhoods where one could just
walk to, teachers lived nearby, etc. Now we have consolidated schools miles from where people live, few walk to school, they are on buses.
(I got behind a school bus years ago. Kids came out, got one the bus,
and first one off was a block from the school, and every corner after that for some distance a kid got off. They could have easily walked.)

When watching the News story I thought about You and I was wondering since

WV (I think) has harder Snow's than Kentucky does, when You attended School were there any Snow Days where You didn't have to go to School?

In the flood of 1937 schools continued as regular, unless they were underwater. If your school had water in the basement, for example, and mine was
on higher ground, you had the day off but mine continued as normal.
My brother and sister (from my father's first marriage) went to a
parochial school next to a public school. St Joe was above the crest and continued, Olny had water in it and closed.
My brother and sister lived across the river in Chesapeake and took a rowboat across the river that docked at the alley by the school.
(The Ohio just slowly rose and rose, not anything like a flash flood.
Each day it crept higher and higher. There was time for most people to move everything to the second or third floors of their houses, if possible.
(The cause of the flood was a lot of snow in PA and it warmed quickly
that January so the snow melted and the water came down river.
In my current building the water crested at the foot of the stairs to
the third floor, (i.e, the second floor was underwater, but my place was dry). Of course I wasn't alive then, much less living here. :)

I looked on the map to see where Jefferson County, WV was, and saw it is at

the Far Eastern part of WV, and where You are in Huntington is on the Western side of WV.

Yep, opposite side, up near DC.

did Huntington get a lot of Snow Wednesday Morning?

Nope, just rain.

Joe, could You devise a way to hold back that River Water as it goes past

Huntington to keep the Ohio River down here from rising too much?
Thanks In Advance.

After the flood of '37, a flood wall was built along the river and
levee's raised. Plus there are lots of locks and dams all along the river so another one is unlikely. (Huntington had flooded before such as 1884, 1887 and
1913 that come to mind).
There have been times the movable barriers (at openings) have been
installed as a precaution but the river has seldom risen enough for them to be really needed.
Joe
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Ed,

I ask Daryl all of the time to keep any Bad Weather going through
Arkansas "IN" Arkansas and away from Me and You.

That's The Good Lord's Department...you will need to contact Him
for that.

My late mother-in-law told me "If you could control the weather,
you'd be [pooping] in high grass". :P

Daryl

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Mike,

When I went, they had just started bussing. IMHO, the necessity to
have more busses on the road, and more kids being sent further away
from home than they had been, lead to more snow days, even though the weather was supposedly milder in the 1970's-'80's, on average, than before. Granted, there were two really bad winters in my early school years. :)

I sometimes wondered if someone had stock in the school bus companies
to start all that mess.

As a young kid, before I learned that, I remember being confused when
we'd have river flooding and it had not rained in days. That, of
course, was why.

Every so often, we get river flooding in the region...especially after
wet and stormy spring tornado seasons...especially from flooding upstream
in Oklahoma and Kansas, along the Arkansas River. In May, 1990, the
Arkansas River got to 5 feet above flood stage at Little Rock, but it
was measured at Murray Lock And Dam, just east of Interstate 430, on
the west side of town. However, floodwaters were so high that many
areas along the riverfront were inundated...and that affected the
backwater areas as well.

I was far enough away, and high enough in elevation, that flooding
for me personally, isn't an issue...although after heavy rain, the
yard can resemble a mud bog.

Daryl

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