You know you're in Kentucky when it's Heads - child safety; Tails - middle school basketball.

 

 

Just messing with you guys. I'm old and retired, so cancelling ball games isn't a big deal for me. I was in the "what's the big deal" camp many years ago when I moved to Kentucky; but things are different here than they were in Maryland where the roads are flat. Even in Mason County there are stretches of road that hardly see the light of day. Not to mention some of the SEKY roads I traveled while in college.

You know you're in Kentucky when it's Heads - child safety; Tails - middle school basketball.

 

 

Just messing with you guys. I'm old and retired, so cancelling ball games isn't a big deal for me. I was in the "what's the big deal" camp many years ago when I moved to Kentucky; but things are different here than they were in Maryland where the roads are flat. Even in Mason County there are stretches of road that hardly see the light of day. Not to mention some of the SEKY roads I traveled while in college.

 

 

By the time the games are to be played even the worst roads are cleared off. Plus, the games are cancelled but the kids ALWAYS have practice on snow days. May as well play if they can practice.

Because when there is no school then there is likely no basketball games. Drives me nuts.

 

I am in the exact same situation. :lol: My high schooler is a senior and my middle school is a 6th grader. I love it but more often than not when the games are cancelled they aren't made up unless they are district games.

 

By the time the games are to be played even the worst roads are cleared off. Plus, the games are cancelled but the kids ALWAYS have practice on snow days. May as well play if they can practice.

 

I understand your sentiment. I'm lucky to live in a district that evaluates conditions for school and basketball games separately, as in many cases road conditions improve greatly by the evening, so having a basketball game is fine. There is still the portion of the community that sees that as putting basketball first ("You can't go to school, but you can have a basketball game. Shows where their priorities lie." ) but most people understand the reality of the situation.

 

No school for us today, but the home basketball game for tonight will certainly be on, as we are having just rain now.

^ PP is correct in that conditions often improve throughout the course of the day/afternoon/evening. Sometimes they get worse. Looks like today will most likely be an example of the former.

 

I don't get my shorts in a bunch when school officials err on the side of caution. Even less so since a night a few years back when the car my daughter was riding in hit a patch of black ice, skidded off the road and snapped a telephone pole. Looking at the totaled car you would never guess that a broken arm (driver) and a concussion (daughter) were pretty much all that resulted in terms of bodily harm.

Glad she was ok, mcpapa. I have a teenage driver too. Even a dusting of snow and I am nervous that she is driving! One unseen patch of ice is all it takes...