Lordy, this is normal snow. Average temp is fine. We'll awake to some drifts.
I walked to school up hill, wink. The temp was a modest below OMG cold. Sure I grumbled, but thats how it used to be before the PC Club took over. The only time it was bad was, when a kid walking ahead of me would swarth a branch and it would swing back and slap my frozen ear. That smarts! Yeah, todays youth have zero clue as to what it is to toughen' up. That is kind of one of my fears. What happens when, they have no choise but to toughen up? No over protective parents or laws? What then? Will they remain a functional, well adjusted, contributer to society? Or will they whine that winter has been too long for them? By the way, winter is the same length of time every year.
My question, which prompted me to write is, so the neighbors walk isnt shoveled? Junk art?
I say, send them coddled children out to shovel it for those neighbors. Save and prepare the junk-art for the market Steve, it'll sell. Theres one born every minute.
This is perfect skiing weather. Snowmobile, participate in a winter activity. Make a snow angel, snowman, or build a snow fort. Grab that mounatin bike and giver' a whirl, thats a hoot in snow. Cold is only a cabin fever state of mind in Wisco.
Snow? Well, let me be the first to tell yah, we are in the upper midwest, near a bunch of lakes, and an Alberta clipper-pathway. White-Stuff happens. Enjoy it, before we are a desolate dessert after the world skips sideways. I am kidding ofcourse, you would complain about the heat then, as you will in summer.
Have a goody! Anyone for ice cream?

73 here today. The only snow I ever want to see again is on our mountains.

"Don't we have a stereotype to live up too"..huh?!?

Do all the Cheeseheads get flaky in this kind of weather? Yes, most of us can recall storms when we got over 30 inches of snow and days at Christmas time when it was nearly 30 degrees below zero. But I can recall Christmas when it was nearly 54 degrees and Easters when I was wearing shorts and it was almost 80 degrees. Sometimes adversity is a good thing, it toughens us up and prepares us for harder times. Does it really matter how "blue" the cheese is? PS-not really sorry about the references to religious holy days (holidays).

emac, if you know of unshoveled sidewalks the thing to do is call the city neighborhood services department. They have many tools at their disposal but I do not believe clairvoyance is among them.
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This headline reminds me of one of my favorite Calvin and Hobbes strips.
http://ignatz.brinkster.net/csnow.html

I think prounion gotchya, Steve.

Hey Knox - if its just snow why haven't I seen you running in your Spin Doctor's hat and reflectors?

I grew up in Wisconsin and thought we were a tough group. Now I live in the Arctic and realize that you're all a bunch of pansies. Snow, cold, blizzards; we work through all of it and the kids go to school in all of it. In fact, I walked to work today (about 3/4 mile) with -19 air temp and -39 windchill, and thought to myself, this isn't so bad. Toughen up people!

I lived in Canada for a few years. The only time school closed was when the heat system broke down. Never was too much snow to get to school, thats what chains on the bus were for.

I can remember walking to Adams school when it was -25 below. We lived close to a mile from school. Parents would bundle you up and tell you to walk fast. And if I remember right I think that was uphill both ways. That was about 45 years years ago. I still have all my fingers and toes so I guess I walked fast enough.

This may not be the "perfect blog" to ask this question, But I don't see any other report on the issue. I thought the city was cracking down on un-shoveled sidewalks. I can see 4 house from my front door that didn't remove snow after last weeks snow and I'm willing to bet they don't get shoveled again this week. I thought the owners had 3 days and then the city cleared the snow.

Steve - I agree. It is only snow. The only reason things might should be shut done is when the snow is coming down quicker then they can remove it, and it is deeper then a normal automobile can drive through. I do agree when you have bitter cold windchills that can cause skin damage in minutes, kids should be staying home. Too many might be out with wet heads, with not appropriate clothing, and be walking to school.

Rocky, school was closed for two days due to sub-zero temperatures when my son was in 3rd grade at Monroe School. He would have been about 8 years old...he's 22 now. So that was about 14 years ago. I think, though, that was the first time Janesville schools had ever been closed due to cold. But when it was that cold, I would have kept him home anyway. You can't bundle a kid up warm enough to walk to school in temperatures like that.

I take it your snow blower isn't working again.

Leave early...go slow...not problems. The thing that floors me is that schools now close if it is "too cold". Such a thing was unheard of only 10 years ago. Bundle 'em up and send 'em off! (Spoken like a true curmudgeon)

Ok, I need to say something. Where I grew up, I actually DID walk to school in the snow, up hill both ways. People who know me have heard this story. I lived on the top of a hill, had to walk down the hill, across town and then back up another hill to get to the school. Then do it again to get home LOL

Frozen tundra?Winter is FAR worse in other states.So slap on your cheeseheads and keep
on thinking your special lil`snowflakes.