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[Scott]

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Anybody with PlayStation Vue able to watch the live coverage through the browser? I can't get the feed to stream for me.

YouTube TV works perfect

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[Fresh Tendrils]

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Do you need a YT subscription?

[dickey1331]

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Do you need a YT subscription?

Yes but I believe they have a free 7 day trial


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[countryboy]

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Snow/sleet/freezing rain came through overnight last night. Got up this morning to see schools closed all over and weather man and news media talking about how bad and dangerous the roads were.

I leave early from my house and don't see anything on the roads except an icy spot here and there. But roads, especially main roads are primarily dry. Get to Louisville where they say its worse and same thing, primarily dry roads with icy spots here and there.

I swear they close schools more often now for less inclement weather than when I was a kid. If this system had passed when I was in school, at most we would've been put on a 2 hour delay to let it get light out.

[notsobabybombers]

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Snow/sleet/freezing rain came through overnight last night. Got up this morning to see schools closed all over and weather man and news media talking about how bad and dangerous the roads were.

I leave early from my house and don't see anything on the roads except an icy spot here and there. But roads, especially main roads are primarily dry. Get to Louisville where they say its worse and same thing, primarily dry roads with icy spots here and there.

I swear they close schools more often now for less inclement weather than when I was a kid. If this system had passed when I was in school, at most we would've been put on a 2 hour delay to let it get light out.

I've noticed this too. But my school was an exception, lol. They hated closing for weather and only did it in really extreme circumstances.

[Majingir]

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I've noticed this too. But my school was an exception, lol. They hated closing for weather and only did it in really extreme circumstances.

I don't think in all the years I was in elementary/high school, they ever completely shut down due to weather (though many surrounding areas/school boards did close schools,especially if school busses weren't running). At most, halfdays, but even then I never showed up for those days either lol.

In elementary school, teachers couldn't tell students not to show up, but would be like "If the weather is really bad but school isn't cancelled, if you don't show up, you won't be missing anything important". Of course, you had to have parents phone in still to say you're not showing up, but teachers were much more understanding.

In high school, they would simply be like "give yourself extra time". So many people would be late so often, especially since most took public transportation, and on days like this, they were filled and/or slow to run, so of course people would be delayed. Even on regular days, I'd say the average person who is late is simply late because of public transportation. Easy for school to say "give yourself extra time", because all the teachers drive. You can't predict public transportation.

[notsobabybombers]

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I don't think in all the years I was in elementary/high school, they ever completely shut down due to weather (though many surrounding areas/school boards did close schools,especially if school busses weren't running). At most, halfdays, but even then I never showed up for those days either lol.

In elementary school, teachers couldn't tell students not to show up, but would be like "If the weather is really bad but school isn't cancelled, if you don't show up, you won't be missing anything important". Of course, you had to have parents phone in still to say you're not showing up, but teachers were much more understanding.

In high school, they would simply be like "give yourself extra time". So many people would be late so often, especially since most took public transportation, and on days like this, they were filled and/or slow to run, so of course people would be delayed. Even on regular days, I'd say the average person who is late is simply late because of public transportation. Easy for school to say "give yourself extra time", because all the teachers drive. You can't predict public transportation.

Exactly. Now that I'm in college, the game has changed, lol. Last week I want to say it was Tuesday, it was a full-on blizzard. I was sitting in the dining hall, refreshing my email page again and again, expecting to have at least one class cancelled. Nope! Both classes were on. As long as the professor can get to school, you're pretty much expected to make it. And most classes have pretty strict attendance policies.

[Majingir]

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Exactly. Now that I'm in college, the game has changed, lol. Last week I want to say it was Tuesday, it was a full-on blizzard. I was sitting in the dining hall, refreshing my email page again and again, expecting to have at least one class cancelled. Nope! Both classes were on. As long as the professor can get to school, you're pretty much expected to make it. And most classes have pretty strict attendance policies.

Those were worst ones too, where class isn't cancelled AND you have marks depending on you showing up/doing work. Harder for college because people obviously don't all live in the area, some can be coming from over an hour away(on a good day), meaning they might spend more time actually going to/from class than they do at class itself.

I remember one time, there was class the final day before Christmas, and it was a big snowstorm. They didn't cancel class, but like 5 people showed up lol. Nothing happened that class, and I'm sure there's probably some unofficial rule like if a certain percentage of people don't show up for a non test day, you can't have anything worth grades.

[notsobabybombers]

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Those were worst ones too, where class isn't cancelled AND you have marks depending on you showing up/doing work. Harder for college because people obviously don't all live in the area, some can be coming from over an hour away(on a good day), meaning they might spend more time actually going to/from class than they do at class itself.

I remember one time, there was class the final day before Christmas, and it was a big snowstorm. They didn't cancel class, but like 5 people showed up lol. Nothing happened that class, and I'm sure there's probably some unofficial rule like if a certain percentage of people don't show up for a non test day, you can't have anything worth grades.

Yeah, that's happened to me, too.

[BurghFan]

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I've noticed this too. But my school was an exception, lol. They hated closing for weather and only did it in really extreme circumstances.

My school district was the same. It was a small district (middle/high school had something like 850 students 6-12 my senior year) and we didn't have buses as most kids could walk to school. There was a catholic elementary school in the same area that did use buses and oftentimes they would get cancelled and we wouldn't.

Exactly. Now that I'm in college, the game has changed, lol. Last week I want to say it was Tuesday, it was a full-on blizzard. I was sitting in the dining hall, refreshing my email page again and again, expecting to have at least one class cancelled. Nope! Both classes were on. As long as the professor can get to school, you're pretty much expected to make it. And most classes have pretty strict attendance policies.

Same, I went to school in the snow belt (small private college) and had to walk through my fair share of nasty winter weather to get to class as it was never cancelled due to weather. As of my senior year (2003/04) I think classes hadn't been cancelled do to weather since the 70's. Actually, there was this one time my senior year that a local radio station had supposedly announced that the college closed early one Friday due to bad winter weather. Thing is, nobody heard about it until the following Tuesday.

[notsobabybombers]

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Same, I went to school in the snow belt (small private college) and had to walk through my fair share of nasty winter weather to get to class as it was never cancelled due to weather. As of my senior year (2003/04) I think classes hadn't been cancelled do to weather since the 70's. Actually, there was this one time my senior year that a local radio station had supposedly announced that the college closed early one Friday due to bad winter weather. Thing is, nobody heard about it until the following Tuesday.

I go to school in upstate NY; whenever I tell people where I go to school, their immediate reaction is "oh, it snows a lot there. (Or some variation of that.) So I get it. Plenty of walking in nasty winter weather. Lol at the last part.

[LambertandHam]

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Snow/sleet/freezing rain came through overnight last night. Got up this morning to see schools closed all over and weather man and news media talking about how bad and dangerous the roads were.

I leave early from my house and don't see anything on the roads except an icy spot here and there. But roads, especially main roads are primarily dry. Get to Louisville where they say its worse and same thing, primarily dry roads with icy spots here and there.

I swear they close schools more often now for less inclement weather than when I was a kid. If this system had passed when I was in school, at most we would've been put on a 2 hour delay to let it get light out.

No snow here, just hurricanes. Days missed got added to the calendar as "half days" which meant you got home early, but they served you pizza and hot dogs for lunch at 9:30am.

[l3ulvl]

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No snow here, just hurricanes. Days missed got added to the calendar as "half days" which meant you got home early, but they served you pizza and hot dogs for lunch at 9:30am.

That's it I'm moving to Florida

[Watson]

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Happy Mardi Gras y'all.


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[jeremym480]

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Happy Mardi Gras y'all.