UPDATE: It seems to be coming down pretty good today, doesn’t it? In addition to commenting on the topic posed earlier, can you tell us where you are and what conditions are like? My wife just e-mailed me to say that conditions in Chesterfield are basically white-out. I’m downtown and the snow is steady — but not that bad.

The earlier topic:

As I sit here, the very first flakes are starting to fall around my home in west county. My son is playing a video game on the couch, instead of sitting in school, where he would just be arriving at this moment.

My daughter in under a bundle of bedclothes, instead of awaiting her ride to school, which would just be showing up at this moment.

They would have been released from school seven hours from now.

In the meanwhile, we are told that heavy snow that threatened to “is behind schedule — bust still on its way.”

And the list of schools closed is extremely lengthy.

Do you think school should have been closed today? What do you suppose goes into the decision to close school? Even if heavy snow came, could it have been cleared in time to let students come and go?