Weather

[stoutfellow]

Tuesday, at about noon, the temperature here was around 60F.

Today, the university is closed due to snowfall.

Life in the Lower Midwest...

Comments

[bluedevilsf.livejournal.com]

Wow...I'm...speechless. In all the time I lived in Edwardsville/Glen Carbon and worked on campus, I don't think I've ever seen the campus close because of the weather.

(I found your blog through a search on "Edwardsville" to see if anyone I knew came up. Hope you don't mind my intrusion.)

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Hm. I've been here twenty-some years; in the early part of that stretch, I remember quite a few closings, mostly due to bad highway conditions. Since SIUE has shifted from being primarily a commuter campus to being residential, closings have been quite a bit rarer.

[I remember one occasion when I had a morning class and an evening class. I trudged onto campus in the morning, only to find that morning and afternoon classes had been cancelled, so I went home. There was no word on evening classes, so I came back around 4:00, only to find that evening classes had been cancelled as well. About eight miles of hiking through snow, all told, to no purpose.)

[bluedevilsf.livejournal.com]

It's been about that long for me as well. We moved to Edwardsville from Granite City in '84. I graduated from EHS in '86 and started at SIUE shortly thereafter. (I completed about 2.5 years.) I remember several winter days when I wished they'd closed the place! *g* I didn't know this at the time, but I've got heart trouble, and that walk from the parking lot to the classroom buildings was very tiring for me, especially in extreme temperatures.

I remember when the first dorms were built and have been surprised to see how much of a shift there has been to a more "traditional" college setting. Next time I'm in the area to visit family, I want to drop in and have a look around the place to see how much it's changed. I still think SIUE has a pretty cool campus.