FI was pissed this morning. He's a HS teacher and this district superintendent is really weirdly resistant to late starts and closures. We live in the midwest and obviously we can't close every time it snows, but a lot of times every surrounding district is closed and ours isn't. They are pretty inconsistent too- earlier in the,year, there were tons of 2 hour late starts when it was -20. This morning it was -30 actual temp so about -40 with windchill, but school didn't close or delay today.
FI sent me a message to say that a quarter of his kids were missing due to buses being late, etc. The buses ended up being so delayed that a lot of kids were 2 hours late anyway. People at the college were also talking about seeing stalled out buses on the roads. And then he heard and texted me that a 6 year old girl was found dead in front of her apartment complex this morning with signs of exposure. She must have been waiting on a delayed bus.
What. The. Fuck. Didn't anyone notice her??? There is no fucking way I would let a SIX year old stand around outside at 0, let alone -40. No idea exactly what happened but I'd imagine the parents left the house thinking she'd be picked up in the next few minutes, but you would think someone would've seen her and tried to get her inside or give her a blanket or call the cops or something. It doesn't take long to get frostbite in this kind of cold but I would still think it would take at least an hour to FREEZE TO DEATH. Damn. Everybody's just really in shock today.