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I got my first snow day in the game today. The kids all got the day off school. Mother was on a 10 to 5 work schedule, so there was no nanny in the house when mum went to work. Fortunately one of the kids was a teen, as the nanny didn't turn up until around 3pm.
Could someone awesome make a hack that calls the nanny when school is cancelled due to a snow day, if the parent who scheduled the nanny is going to work?
If not, at least now I know to call a nanny "just for now" next time there's a snow day.
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Children should can call nannies too, if I remember correctly.
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There are snow days? How's that work? Does this mean kids will practically never go to school, since Fimbulwinter grips my neighborhood?
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I've only had one snow day, and only after the heavy snow, so it seems reasonable.
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There are snow days? How's that work? Does this mean kids will practically never go to school, since Fimbulwinter grips my neighborhood?
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I've played a couple of winters and haven't had a snow day yet.
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It's a 30% random chance of a snow day if there is heavy snow on the ground.
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At least it makes sense in the game. Where I live it's like OMFGBBQ if there's a millimeter of snow on the ground and then the kids are up your butt all day and they can't even make a snowman. CRIPES.
But I would be down with this hack for sure.
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I had 3 snow days in a row. It was rather annoying.
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I got my first snow day in the game today. The kids all got the day off school. Mother was on a 10 to 5 work schedule, so there was no nanny in the house when mum went to work. Fortunately one of the kids was a teen, as the nanny didn't turn up until around 3pm.
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I made it snow for 2 days straight and didn't get a snow day. Then all of a sudden next winter snow was built up it had barely snowed an hour or 2 to cause the 2nd build up and yet they declared it a snow day. Pretty weird if you ask me.
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That's pretty much how snow days work where I live as well. First snow "OMG, snow on the ground, get the kids out of school." Next day - constant whining from everyone over calling off for a dusting that doesn't even make your feet wet, paren'ts all upset, had to miss work, trouble with sitters etc. A week later - snows for 3 days straight, you can't open your door, freezing weather, nothing moves - whoever decides school's out is too scared to declare a snow day so the kids all go. Next day - constant whining about the dangerous conditions the schools put our kids through, parent's driving through the emergency-condition streets with 2-year-old siblings, most kids don't show up, half the teachers can't get in etc. Next dusiting - send 'em to school and when the 2' builds up, send 'em home at noon. Next day - parent's all b*tch about having to leave work to get kids, can't these guys even watch a weather report? Next snow - call school off the night previous as weather reports 2' expected, next day snow's all melted. Streets are fine. Whine - nobody can even look out a window and see what the weather is. Next dusting - call school off. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Truthfully, it's rather sadoradom.
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There seems to be a difference for snow days between private school and public school... I've had them a few times for private school sims only while the public school sims on the same lot (poor underprivileged shmucks) have to wade through the snow.
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The Maxoids said that the parents would also get off(without penalty) if it was a snow day for the kids maybe the parents took off because there was a teen at home that is able to babysit? Either that or it is broken. It also might be that the parents already got the call to work before the snow day was declared.
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Private schools often close when public schools stay open, so quite realistic, I'd say.
As far as schools closing, you just need to live where heavy snow is normal. Schools don't close unless it looks like they would get sued by the bus drivers. Even then, the announcements start out as "school busses will be two hours late -- no morning kindergarten," before you finally get the "school is closed" announcement one hour or so later. But it is never a problem for parents, because they can't get out of the driveway to go to work, anyway. By the time schools close around here, nothing is moving -- not even plows.
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"Snow Day?" What's that? Wimps complaining about not being able to drive.. come on now where's the fun in making it easy to get around.
I never had a snow day and it snowed all the time. We didn't even get to stay home when it was 35 below 0. Yeah those were the fun days. ::grumble::
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They don't have snow days in Calgary; instead, the schools have this "we're always open for your kids to have somewhere to go" philosophy.
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In my day, we had to walk to school 10 miles in the snow, uphill and against the wind both ways. And the Japanese would try to bomb us. AND WE LIKED IT!
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Yes, yes, and when we got home our parents would kill us and dance about on our graves singing "Halleluia".
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In my day, we got up before we went to bed...
What is the name of that skit - is it one of the Monty Python ones?
Something about a coal miner?
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It is a python skit, but I don't know the name of it.
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Actually the Four Yorkshiremen sketch was first seen performed by John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brook-Taylor and Marty Feldman on the At Last The 1948 Show. It was first performed by the Pythons on stage in 1974 at Drury Lane. This has been a patent Mirelly smart-ass comment but I like exactitudes  Source Original sketch |
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