@Background Pony #FC12  
true

@iamnotabrony  

 
Well you probably don’t have a privatized grid.

Here in Michigan, our winters can be potentially terrible, especially around this time.
 
Calling in a snow day for what’s seen in the last panel? Funny, yet it kinda bugs me for some reason.

Not to make light of the tragedy in texas, but If it aint over 12 inches we didn’t get a snow day.

@Brass Melody  
Exactly the kind of ponies that Twilifht can relate to!

@Alphadude007  
Have fun with your new generation of socially inverted shut-ins.

Instead of having to make up school days, just have virtual lessons! Portal spells for everyone!

@DarkyBoode32  

 
Heck that almost makes sense

@Background Pony #6116  
Thanks for the additional context – I had thought that snow was common there, but I guess I was conflating it with frequent winter rains. Or forgetting how far away the Alaska panhandle is from there.

@Plko2  
Well that’s Canada, and there’s a lot of snow in winter there so it’s obvious they don’t have snow days. But there are snow days when it snows in parts of the world where it doesn’t usually snow.

the cmc don’t actually have a long tragic history with pinkie pie, where she used to be their bff but alas no longer. no, she just managed to photo bomb every time they tried to take a group picture, so eventually they gave up.

I live in Alberta. I have never had a snow day and it isn’t unusual to get blizzards that end up dumping 6 inches to a foot of snow.

This comic is cool, but snow days really don’t have any reason to exist.

For years, I legit thought a “snow day” was just some fictional story-telling trope Americans used. It wasn’t until sometime in the 00’s when I found out that it is a real thing. Here where I live, no such concept as “snow day” even exists. Individual persons may get stuck in the snow and be unable to get anywhere, but schools won’t be closed.

@Neko Majin C  
Snow day for Atlanta children and Texans.

@Neko Majin C  
Places that don’t normally get a lot of snow lack the plows and road salt to deal with even a little snow, and the drivers aren’t as experienced in safely driving in it.

@Scintilla Aquila
 
@Neko Majin C  
@Scintilla Aquila  
In real life, throughout the Pacific Northwest (the western portions/urban areas) it is extremely common for schools and entire society to come to a screeching halt when there is a dusting of snow. So the portrayal in the comic is extremely accurate. Snow isn’t common in the region and it’s very hilly. So when there is snow, it makes things very difficult. Especially since it rains so much, frozen temps also mean icy roads.
 
This particular episode of this comic had the most world building we’ve seen in a long time. It even showed he first ever MAP of the region. As most expected, it’s located in roughly in what what would be real world southwestern Washington. Dockland is Portland. Fort Vanhoover is Vancouver, Washington, etc.

1 inch ice/frozen rain layered on top of 3+ inches of snow where I’m at.

@Neko Majin C  
I guess it depends where you are. I am given to understand that at Thacher, classes were called off if there was enough snow on the quad to make a snowball.
 
But given that this comic is set in the Equestrian equivalent of the Pacific Northwest, you’re right, it does seem a little weak to call school just for that.

Meanwhile, in Texas. >.>

Ol’ Photobomb Pie, they call her.

What kind of shit snow day is that? When I was a kid, unless the snow was really bad they would not close the schools at all. If they closed the schools every time we got round six inches of snow, schools would be closed from October to March.