Winter Weather

The eastern third of Kansas has been swallowed up by near blizzard conditions today. It's been all the talk on the Weather Channel. Schools were closed before the snow even began to fall, which caused me to laugh just a little because no matter how much snow we get in Kansas, nothing compares to what I saw just about six years ago to the date. I spent the last four months of 2000 in western Michigan working for The Muskegon Chronicle. Once it started to snow, it just didn't stop. And before I knew it, there was two feet of the white stuff in the front yard of the house I was renting. Schools weren't closed and businesses didn't shut down. So every time it starts to snow here, I remember Muskegon and think about how they'd be laughing at our reaction. These pictures from the Roosevelt Park neighborhood of Muskegon were made of school children *on their way* home from school. I'm sure if I went out today, I could find a similar picture here, of children *staying* home from school.