To consider keeping dd home Friday due to weather?

[Lovemusic33]

I know I'm probably being over anxious. Dd travels to school by taxi a hour away from home, we live rural so it involves country lanes as well as driving through villages and towns (taxi collects 2 other children on route). We are forecast 80-90mph winds and are on a amber warning. Its the last day of half term so they won't be doing much, dd has sn's so if the taxi route is delayed or has to reroute due to falling trees she will get very distressed. So AIBU to consider keeping her home?

Off topic but please organise yourself for a power cut, we have had bad weather in the North East of Scotland 3 times in as many months and some have been out of power up to 5 days at a time. Make sure to have plenty candles/blanket/food that can be easily consumed

@1forAll74

Well I went to school in the war, when bombs were dropping on schools and houses, and in 1947, had to walk through 6 ft snow drifts, in sub zero temperatures, school was about half an hours walk away. There was a farm up the road, and the farmer took his three children to school on the back of his tractor when it was seriously bad weather days.

Oh yes. Those good old days when children like OP's DD were denied an education and put in mental institutions where they were poorly treated and often abused.

We are prepping, I am charging power packs, looking for torches and candles at the ready. We often get power cuts so I’m expecting we will get one tomorrow.

You state you were born in 1942 @1forAll74 so it's not really the case you had much of your schooling experience under war conditions

I'd follow your instincts, you know your child best. As they are a fair distance away and gets distressed in bad weather in the taxi, absolutely not worth it tomorrow if the weather turns out to be as bad as they envisage.

I would definitely keep your Dd at home -- I hope you have all have a good day with minimal storm stress

Toanewstart23 why are you giving a weather forecast for where you live? It's not relevant to this thread. Everyone can check the weather forecast and level of storm warning for their own area for tomorrow themselves. The weather will vary depending on region (funnily enough).

It's absolutely lovely where I am right now. It's called the calm before the storm.

If the weather is very bad there won’t be any medals for making avoidable journeys on Friday.

There will always be people who have to travel and they won’t be helped by longer traffic jams behind fallen trees and more people marooned in stations.

@Lindy2

Toanewstart23 why are you giving a weather forecast for where you live? It's not relevant to this thread. Everyone can check the weather forecast and level of storm warning for their own area for tomorrow themselves. The weather will vary depending on region (funnily enough).

It's absolutely lovely where I am right now. It's called the calm before the storm.

Becuae I’ve got the morning off Sitting here with a coffee and time on my hands

I've just been outside. My milk container and free standing post box (which is weighted down), had blown over. I imagine it will escalate tomorrow, at least it will according to the forecast (I will be happy to be wrong). I'm in London, rural areas with lots of trees will be worse. There's no harm in keeping your daughter at home for one day in those circumstances.

@Lovemusic33 I've just seen the warning for parts of south west has been upgraded to Red

www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings?WT.mc_id=Twitter_Weatherdesk_Enquiries#?date=2022-02-18&id=f3167677-9b5e-464a-b11b-a9d00f9d392b

North Cornwall, Devon, Bristol and south coast of Wales are now on a red warning 😬

Cross post 🤣

We are not on the red warning but pretty close to it, DD’s school is closer to the red than are home so I will be keeping her home.

Good call!

Absolutely keep her at home op, I was going to say this anyway when the amber warning was in place, but now it's gone up to red! My dd has asd so totally understand the meltdowns and anxiety, she also finds certain weather conditions really scary and can get very distressed, she can't cope with the noise and fear that something bad will happen. I grew up in a rural area too, tiny country lanes surrounded by huge old trees for 2 miles after leaving the house, then gradually less for another couple of miles til you'd reach the nearest village. Branches flying into the road or your windscreen and fallen trees, mud slides and flooding - I imagine anyone saying send her in doesn't have a sen child who struggles with exactly this type of situation, or doesn't live / has never lived in a very rural area. I'm not even going to bother with the comment about the good old war days up thread Stay home and stay as safe as you can op, sounds like you're getting well prepared for potential loss of electricity etc, take care xx

Our school is now closed

@Violet9

Absolutely keep her at home op, I was going to say this anyway when the amber warning was in place, but now it's gone up to red! My dd has asd so totally understand the meltdowns and anxiety, she also finds certain weather conditions really scary and can get very distressed, she can't cope with the noise and fear that something bad will happen. I grew up in a rural area too, tiny country lanes surrounded by huge old trees for 2 miles after leaving the house, then gradually less for another couple of miles til you'd reach the nearest village. Branches flying into the road or your windscreen and fallen trees, mud slides and flooding - I imagine anyone saying send her in doesn't have a sen child who struggles with exactly this type of situation, or doesn't live / has never lived in a very rural area. I'm not even going to bother with the comment about the good old war days up thread Stay home and stay as safe as you can op, sounds like you're getting well prepared for potential loss of electricity etc, take care xx

Quite right.

I don't have kids at school and anyway it is half term in my area. However we due to have gales and rain tomorrow on the edge of SE London. I expect there will be disruption all over the place, people being late in or not getting to work.

Both DD’s schools are now closed, though I had already decided to keep dd2 home and prepared her for this. I’m glad we now don’t have to anywhere so we will all be staying indoors until the storm passes.

School closed here too, so starting half term a day early.