Valentine's Day Snowdays

What's the best thing a high school senior can hear?  The words "snow day."  What's even better than that?  Three snow days in a row.  Could it get better than that?  Yes, when it coincides with your winter break, turning your week off into a week and a half with no homework.

That is exactly what happened when a Nor'Easter came through on Valentine's Day in 2007.  I was just hoping that the storm that they were actually predicting was going to actually happen.  We had not used any of the five snow days that my school set aside and other predicted snow storms never produced enough snow to close school.

It started later in the day on the 13th, and I awoke to a winter wonderland.  Since everything was closed, including the roads, we did not bother to clean out our driveway or sidewalks since it was going to keep snowing.  When we went to clean it out the next day, during a lull before it started to snow again, we were all pleasantly surprised at just how much snow actually fell.

Although not as much snow fell Thursday night into Friday, the wind was so bad that it was making it still too dangerous for the buses to travel, meaning I just got three extra days added to my winter break, with no homework.  This never had happened before, and to get them around my senior year winter break was something for the record books.