Legal Commentary

Today our law school closed  because of a record amount of snowfall in Spokane over the weekend. I imagine the students are psyched to have the unexpected day off, especially since it's bright and sunny so far today -- although the fun of the day off may be undermined a bit if we learn that we have to make up all the lost class hours from today. Because I grew up in California and stayed there for college, snow days are purely an adult experience for me, and frankly I thought that I would have experienced more of them in the course of nearly 15 years in the northeast. I can recall  only the NYC Blizzard of 1996 resulting in a day off. I think even this 1993 storm may have failed to result in a snow day at my law school, if I remember correctly. As a youth on the snow-free west coast, I had the impression that people in winter climates were getting frequent days off to frolic in the snow. A misimpression? Or just a thing of the past?