By Jason He
Gargoyle staff reporter
Posted Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2007, The OG, news & photo galleries

I CAN EASILY imagine all the smiles on students' faces as they listened to a recorded message Tuesday telling them that the school would be closed again the following day.

I happened to be logged onto AIM while I was listening to that message. About a few milliseconds after I heard “second snow day,” someone IM'ed me about just that.

A couple seconds after that, I saw someone's away message change from something “ordinary” to this: 2 snow days!!!! totally kickass!!!!

Pretty soon, I started getting more and more IMs. “Holy s***,” someone told me. “Uni High is closed [again].”

“YAY! I'M SO EXCITED!” exclaimed someone else who rarely uses all caps in his IM conversations.

People even started creating new threads on the Uni High forums. “We're having a second snow day tomorrow,” sophomore Karen Han posted. “Opinions?”

I replied with the full-size version of that above screenshot and nothing else. About 10 minutes later, sophomore Andrew Lovdahl cheerfully responded, “Now I won't have to do the homework that I wasn't going to do today!”

“I thought it was about as likely for Uni to have two snow days in a row as for George Bush to turn into a giant domo,” sophomore Joy Shapley wrote.

In the subfreshman forum, though, people didn't seem to be as happy. “I kinda wish school was back,” someone posted. “I'm that lonely ….”

All right, enough with the quotes: I'll post some of the pictures I took Tuesday (none were particularly interesting, unfortunately). Here are a few taken at around 3 in the afternoon.

And here are some from around 5 to 6 p.m., when I went to County Market with my dad for some quick shopping. Most roads were reasonably clear, but some were completely impassable. Our car got stuck for a little while once because of that.

We found an alternate route that wasn't too bad but still required caution in some areas. Most of the streets we drove through looked sort of like this Kirby Avenue-Staley Road intersection (just outside Countryside School).

Overall, my area didn't get nearly as much snow as Andrew's backyard, and I've definitely seen worse days. But the amount of snow on the ground Tuesday is a little surprising considering how unwintry this past December and January felt in general.

I've got more pictures of Tuesday's snow in my Flickr photostream (again, there's nothing too exciting in there).

[NOTE: An earlier version of this article appeared in the Gargoyle staff blog.]

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