Not Your Average Snow Day

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December 23, 2013

The older children, here a group of two to three-year olds, wait to play in the snow. (Elaine Chen/WLRN)

A forecast for freezing rain and cold temperatures means parts of the country socked by a weekend storm will be covered with ice through Christmas and beyond.

Hundreds of thousands of people from Michigan to Maine remain without power this morning after the storm dropped up to two inches of ice in some places.

Luckily, most schools were closed for the holidays.

In most of the country, getting a snow day means a day off from school. But as with many things in south Florida, a snow day means something entirely different.

From the Here & Now Contributors Network, Elaine Chen of WLRN has the report.

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Elaine Chen, reporter for WLRN and Here & Now Contributors Network. She tweets @wasabiphile.

This segment aired on December 23, 2013.