Cleveland, Tennessee has seen record snow this year.  Not that we have snow on the ground, but a record number of days we have seen some snow in some form coming from the sky.  We did have about 2-3 inches of snow that lasted for a few days.  It was awesome.  The city descended into complete chaos.  The grocery stores probably sold more milk and bread in two days than can be consumed by our county in a year.

With the snow comes...snow days.  Not for Lee University where I work.  During the armageddon of snow we got to leave early at 3:30.  But the children at the city and county schools have enjoyed several days off.  It's getting kind of silly.  Basically, if the weather person even thinks about the word snow, some counties go ahead and close school  If the weather person actually says the word snow, they go ahead and close for 2 or 3 days.  Everyone is afraid someone's going to get into a wreck.

We were talking about in the office one day.  The legend goes that a long time ago, Cleveland got some snow.  The school officials did not call off school and some parent had an accident on the way to school which ended up killing the child.  From that day forward some type of community vow was taken to never risk the life of a child over snow again. (I think there was a Frank Peretti book written about it.)

Naively I asked, "why is it the school system's fault that this unfortunate accident happened?  I mean if the roads looked so bad, why didn't the parent just say, 'it's not safe on the roads and we're going to stay home today' or 'I don't feel comfortable driving in that' ?"

It was explained to me that it was the city/county's responsibility to decide when the roads are safe.  People are stupid and can't be trusted to make that call on their own.  They need to be protected because they don't know better.  And then it dawned on me.  Our small seemingly conservative town nestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains was actually a bastion of liberalism.  These same FoxNews patriots who start screaming SOCIALIST! at the first sign of any government intervention were now asking the government to step in and make basic decisions for them about when they should drive. 

Ok...it wasn't really liberalism, just rich irony.  Apparently, people don't need the government to help them with anything but terrorists, illegal aliens and potentially icy roads. 

Health care? Leave us alone we don't need it. 
Unemployment? Only lazy people aren't working.
Child Hunger? If their parents weren't so lazy they could eat.
Potentially slick road?  PLEASE HELP US - WE CAN'T DECIDE...SHOULD WE DRIVE OR NOT??!!

I'm just having some fun.  Don't get all FoxNews on me. ;)