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Growing up in a suburb outside of Boston, my friends and I every winter counted on several snow days. Once we detected a flake in the sky we would go to find out about the weather. Was it a storm? How many feet? Will there be ice? Black ice was the best because this made the driving conditions very dangerous and was a clear indicator that school would be canceled. Some towns like Wellesley had a fleet of a couple hundred snow plows. This meant that school was rarely canceled for Wellesley students. I can remember watching the morning news and seeing the canceled school list ticket at the bottom of the screen. Once I saw my school’s name my neighbor and I would get together and plan sledding, or skating, or hot chocolate drinking events. Now that I live in Southern California, it saddens me to think the kids never really experienced snow days. Sure they may have had fog days, but that is pretty much a day wasted were you are restricted to stay inside. Snow days to New Englanders are shared and understood, it is a time to jump into a couple of feet of fresh snow and enjoy the fact that is all you can really do.