<v Speaker 1>Jerry Katy and Josh six one hundred.

<v Speaker 2>Katie, are we about to loop things up?

<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well we have a story about yesterday with all

<v Speaker 1>the schools being closed and everything right, So we have

<v Speaker 1>a local traffic reporter you may know him from Denver seven,

<v Speaker 1>Jason Luber. He tweeted something that I was just like,

<v Speaker 1>why would you do that? He said, and I quote,

<v Speaker 1>by the way, I am stunned that schools are closed.

<v Speaker 1>I could have seen them call for a delayed start,

<v Speaker 1>but closed conditions don't warrant that at all. So he

<v Speaker 1>tweeted that yesterday after the whole snow debacle, and of

<v Speaker 1>course every school around the metro essentially closed. But here's

<v Speaker 1>the thing is, the day before, the news stations made

<v Speaker 1>such a big deal about this impending storm. Of course

<v Speaker 1>they canceled schools like, oh, the powers are gonna be out,

<v Speaker 1>trees are gonna be eight exactly the biggest storm this

<v Speaker 1>part has ever seen or seen since two thousand and three,

<v Speaker 1>Like they made it a big deal.

<v Speaker 2>So I feel h they kind of did.

<v Speaker 1>They did, so I feel people were just responding to

<v Speaker 1>what the news station said. So for him, I just

<v Speaker 1>I feel like it was he was trying to get

<v Speaker 1>people riled up. But I appreciate that schools took it

<v Speaker 1>seriously and they closed because on top of just the

<v Speaker 1>safety issues. As a parent, and I was a single

<v Speaker 1>mom for many, many years, it's really hard to figure

<v Speaker 1>out what to do with your kid when they canceled

<v Speaker 1>a morning of like, what are you gonna do? Take

<v Speaker 1>a PTO day? In my line of work, that's really

<v Speaker 1>hard to do. So I appreciate that they took things

<v Speaker 1>into consideration the night before and they made the appropriate

<v Speaker 1>decisions then. So I just feel like, you know, parents

<v Speaker 1>would absolutely appreciate that they closed schools the night before,

<v Speaker 1>But what do you think as a parent, what did you.

<v Speaker 2>Feel inier to juggle things? If they'd just gone to

<v Speaker 2>school and you went to work, that would have been

<v Speaker 2>the easiest.

<v Speaker 1>Well yeah, but again in response to the news station,

<v Speaker 1>yaya it was gonna be.

<v Speaker 2>There was also a lot of talk though about you know,

<v Speaker 2>there was gonna be twelve inches, but more than half

<v Speaker 2>of it was gonna melt like if you followed along

<v Speaker 2>and really listened to the forecast, they said a majority,

<v Speaker 2>yes we'll get ten inches, but five of it is

<v Speaker 2>gonna be gone immediately it's just gonna turn the liquid

<v Speaker 2>and it's not gonna be that bad. And it is

<v Speaker 2>a spring storm where it's just generally slush and not

<v Speaker 2>like the winter storms that stick and the roads are

<v Speaker 2>really bad and all that. So I kind of get it,

<v Speaker 2>like if you've lived here for a long time and

<v Speaker 2>you saw what went on with the snowstorm. As I

<v Speaker 2>was driving in on four seventy that morning on wet

<v Speaker 2>pavement and my kids had gotten the call that school

<v Speaker 2>was gonna be closed, I was kind of like, what

<v Speaker 2>the frick man, what the frick? I did hear another

<v Speaker 2>forecaster saying that part of the reason that they did

<v Speaker 2>close schools is because schools actually bank these days. They

<v Speaker 2>have built in snow days, and they hadn't used any

<v Speaker 2>of them, so they're like, ah, why the heck not,

<v Speaker 2>let's just use one because we've got it. It's bank,

<v Speaker 2>let's just burn one. So that could have been one

<v Speaker 2>of the main reasons. I don't know. I'm not involved

<v Speaker 2>in that behind the scenes aspect, but to me, it

<v Speaker 2>just felt like, we've got them, we might as well

<v Speaker 2>use them.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah, Well, and again I think that the fact

<v Speaker 1>that they made such a big deal about it because

<v Speaker 1>even with the stuff melting, they were saying things like

<v Speaker 1>cement like and power outages cross metro areas. The words

<v Speaker 1>they were, we're very dark and gloomy. Yeah, and so

<v Speaker 1>again I think that for them to then come out,

<v Speaker 1>and that's the thing too, is they were like, this

<v Speaker 1>is going to be the biggert like it could beat

<v Speaker 1>that two thousand and three storm, and then when it didn't,

<v Speaker 1>they were like, well, it's the closest thing too, that

<v Speaker 1>two thousand and three storm we've seen. Sense like they

<v Speaker 1>were just trying to really backtrack on their words ahead

<v Speaker 1>and I get that that's a thing for people here, right,

<v Speaker 1>Like the meteorologists come on Chase, Well, it's hard to

<v Speaker 1>tell the weather here because it is so unpredictable. But

<v Speaker 1>the fact that they scared the entire metro area about

<v Speaker 1>this storm and then the schools canceled because of course

<v Speaker 1>they did, they're going to close, and then they called

<v Speaker 1>them out for closing, I'm like, well, that's not fair.

<v Speaker 1>I am appreciative of the fact that they closed the schools.

<v Speaker 2>Is a little unsettling when they do do it, like

<v Speaker 2>the night before at six o'clock or whatever it was,

<v Speaker 2>whenever we got the call, because to me, it does

<v Speaker 2>feel like that maybe needs to be a call that

<v Speaker 2>somebody makes at like two am, three am. I do

<v Speaker 2>feel that because I feel like there is there's been

<v Speaker 2>a couple of days. Well again, we've had snow days

<v Speaker 2>and like the sun's out and the roads are finding I'm.

<v Speaker 1>Like, really, you're thinking from your perspective, which is a

<v Speaker 1>two parent household, right, like a one parent household, they

<v Speaker 1>need that information the day before if you're gonna have

<v Speaker 1>to figure out what your kids today.

<v Speaker 2>I got two working parents in the house.

<v Speaker 1>But I'm just saying, like, it's you have to think

<v Speaker 1>of everybody's situation, not just your own, you know. And

<v Speaker 1>so that's where again I do appreciate the fact that

<v Speaker 1>they canceled it the night before, give people some time

<v Speaker 1>to prepare.

<v Speaker 2>You're thinking of your situation, not everybody else.

<v Speaker 1>Care. Yeah, I'm thinking of everybody else's situation.

<v Speaker 2>Okay, Yeah, this is why I'm a Dave Fraser guy. Yeah,

<v Speaker 2>you feel like Dave Fraser's pretty.

<v Speaker 1>I don't listen to Jason Luber's traffic guy. Yeah, what

<v Speaker 1>is so he was just saying for the road stuff,

<v Speaker 1>But again, although he's.

<v Speaker 2>The road expert, so I guess he could be like, hey,

<v Speaker 2>school buses would have been just fine.

<v Speaker 1>You know what.

<v Speaker 2>The thing you got to take into consideration too, is

<v Speaker 2>all the kids standing at the bus stops and stuff too,

<v Speaker 2>I mean, and the bus is trying to travel and

<v Speaker 2>all of it. So I get it there on the

<v Speaker 2>side of caution and the power out whatever.

<v Speaker 1>Like the down trees, like there were so many things

<v Speaker 1>that were more than children. There were thousands without power.

<v Speaker 1>There were so many people without power yesterday. So that's

<v Speaker 1>where again, canceling the schools, I think it was the

<v Speaker 1>right call.

<v Speaker 2>Guess what everybody's gonna be seventy degrees today