This time it’s for real
Now this is what we call a snowstorm!
I took one look outside and decided on my own that my daughters would be staying home. The funny thing is that 10 min after the closing announcement from Marguerite Bourgeoys school board, I get an e-mail from the director of one my daughter’s Lachine private school informing us that his school is open. Probably because they waited for so long that most of their bus routes have already picked-up their students.
I wrote him back congratulating him on his use of technology but that his timing is flawed…and that there was no way I was sending my daughter to school simply because they didn’t make up their minds fast enough.
List of school closings in the extended entry…in case you haven’t heard yet.
Commissions scolaires:
De Montréal (CSDM)
Les Samares (Lanaudière)
Marguerite-Bourgeoys (Montréal)
Les Grandes-Seigneuries (Montérégie)
Marie-Victorin (Longueuil)
de la Région-de-Sherbrooke
de Saint-Hyacinthe (Montérégie)
des Hautes-Rivières (Montérégie)
des Patriotes (Rive-Sud)
au Coeur-des-Vallées (Gatineau) - transport scolaire, cours et services de garde fermés
des Navigateurs
des Laurentides
des Draveurs
Portages-de-l’Outaouais
Vallée-des-Tisserands (Montérégie)
Rivière-du Nord
Sir Wilfried Laurier
Pointe-de-l’Île
Des Bois-francs
Des Chênes
Eastern Townships
New Frontiers
English Montreal
Val-des-Cerfs
Des Découvreurs (Écoles Madeleine-Bergeron et St-Michel-de-Sillery)
Private Schools
Collège Laval (secondaire) - mais le départ pour le voyage en Floride est maintenu
Écoles musulmanes de Montréal (campus primaire et secondaire)
Vanguard (les trois écoles de Westmount, Ville Saint-Laurent et Laval)
Collège Héritage de Châteauguay
Académie François-Labelle (mais le service de garde est ouvert) - Repentigny
Académie Ali Ibn Abi Talib (Montréal)
Collège Esther-Blondin (Terrebonne)
École Les Mélèzes (Joliette)
École Louis-Pasteur (Montréal)
Collège Jean de la Mennais (La Prairie)
Collège Charles-Lemoyne (Ville Sainte-Catherine)
Collège De Champigny
Externat Sacré-Coeur de Rosemère
Séminaire Séminaire de la Très-Sainte-Trinité
Collège Charles Perrault (Laval)
Marie-Anne (Rawdon)
Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes(Longueuil)
Académie Marie-Laurier (Brossard)
Collège Durocher (St-Lambert)
L’école trilingue (Longueuil)
Collège Saint-Jean-Vianney
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Yeah, but do the universities ever close… no… I’m sitting in my office at Concordia and all I want to do is go play in the snow.
Yeah…why am I sitting here at work reading this….? Great job though André with the list of school closings. Lucky kids!
Unless you can take the bus or the metro, my best advice is for everybody to STAY HOME. I tried to drive to the lab from my house in Pierrefonds. Things were ok until we reached the Cote de Liesse exit. I guess that trucks were having problems going up the ramp because it was completely blocked. We managed to escape by going through a warehouse parking lot but I almost lost control of the car as we were getting back onto the 520. Fortunately, I was able to regain control just as we were about to hit the wall. Good thing I drive a small 4×4 with good winter tires or else I’d be making a call to my insurer.
After that, we decided to go back home for a change of pants.
For those of you who made it to work, the return home is gonna be nasty. The snow on the west island is turning to sleet which means that we might also get some freezing rain.
When I look out my office window and can’t see the place ville marie anymore…. that’s a snow storm :)
Howdy!
Three Words:
NAKED SNOW ANGELS!!!