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charmcitymermer24 t1_j9t1ce9 wrote

I grew up in the Hereford zone and these were the very best days (sorry :/) since we didn’t have to make them up - but I will say one attempt at driving the roads out there with even the smallest amount of snow or ice and you’ll understand. My bus ride home was only possible with the most skilled driver on a good day - roads are incredibly narrow, winding, and hilly and having a giant yellow bus navigate these with snow is asking for disaster. Also the Hereford zone is quite massive and being north, we tended to get the worst of most storms at least somewhere in the Zone

If it makes you feel any better though we often lived very far from friends so we didn’t usually get to play with each other on these days

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finnknit t1_j9t56qr wrote

Did you know anyone who went to a magnet school somewhere else in Baltimore county? My high school was a magnet school and kids were bussed in from Hereford. I don't think I ever though about what would happen if our school was open, but schools in the Hereford zone were closed.

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PoopIsAlwaysSunny t1_j9uffl2 wrote

Not just north, but away from water and on a plateau. Basically a “hey snowstorm, dump right here” sign

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binary1230 t1_j9s7rik wrote

WHY DIDN'T WE EVER GET A ZONE? WHO IS HEREFORD AND WHY DID THEY GIVE HIM A ZONE? HOW COME HE IS THE ONLY ONE WITH A ZONE

these are the questions of our time

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abooth43 t1_j9ta2xq wrote

Because roads in Hereford are hilly and winding and they're some of the last cleared by state tow trucks in our region. The odds that a bus/parent get stuck on a slippery uphill are much greater than that in the city where they have designated snow routes that are taken care of pretty well.

Also routinely worse conditions north of the beltway than in the city. Baltimore area generally gets less snow, most of the pre-storm prep is focused there, and it's where the most amount of trucks are out clearing early.

Feels shitty, but really makes sense.

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MarinaraPruppets t1_j9s6r7w wrote

I always jealously fumed at the weird named private schools who seemingly always got off. I think like god damn "Goddard School" and something "Day School" and "School for the Blind". I also got mad at NIST and NASA. They always got off before me too.

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jessiker t1_j9vq9pc wrote

Back before Hopkins learned to close for snow, my mom always bitched that the applied physics lab would close, but not the whole University. I work there now and thankfully they know how to close.

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megalomike t1_j9tbaln wrote

yes and then when we wrestled hereford i made a stupid move and got slammed hard enough that the wind got knocked out of me and i had to forfeit so i have been the hereford zone's bitch my whole life.

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Conscious-Patience49 t1_j9udbhr wrote

I remember some of the wrestlers in Towson and Dulaney would always complain about matches against Hereford. They would always say it’s not fair for us to go against some corn fed junior farmers that are the size of full grown men!

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megalomike t1_j9ujx18 wrote

I truly dug my own grave, same guy got whipped by a scrub at that meet.

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TrashPundit t1_j9tlzne wrote

Kids in northern Harford County who momentarily mishear Hereford know this pain well.

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gothaggis t1_j9ul8h8 wrote

haha yeah - also people that think the Hereford Zone is in Harford County...or is the Harford County Zone.

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No-Permit-349 t1_j9sgsez wrote

I remember that. I was in the city, so we hardly ever stayed home. We never got that 2 hour delay either

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FabriceSantoro t1_j9tydj8 wrote

I’m one of those Hereford Zone kids. I think the perception of how many Hereford Zone days we got is much greater than reality. I think in high school we might have one every, or every other year where we got off and the rest of the county/city didn’t.

Also - it makes sense. The Hereford Zone makes up a third of Baltimore County’s land mass and it’s consistently a few degrees colder than the southern areas. Those extra degrees mean the difference between wet roads and icy roads (which are hard to treat because again… huge area to cover)… and there are tons of really tight, really windy roads up in Hereford.

Take solace that it didn’t take you 30 minutes to go anywhere growing up and your nearest shopping center wasn’t in Shrewsberry PA

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judeiscariot t1_j9tqdde wrote

Until I visited there and was like "damn there is nothing here. These kids have it rough."

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anne_hollydaye t1_j9ta9x0 wrote

I went to a parochial school but we always got whatever Baltimore County got, and the absolute seething jealousy whenever Hereford got a day we didn't...

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elcad t1_j9ti36y wrote

Same here. The city never got off back in the 80's.

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S-Kunst t1_j9swmie wrote

A friend of mine was the Principal at a school in the that district. This was in the late 70s. He said some kids were still living on farms and had to deal with farm chores, and the roads were difficult. Still, I grew up in the rural area of MoCo and we did not have similar closings. Though MoCo is south of upper Balt County. Still I also don't remember this happening when I taught in upper Carroll County. Balt County also closes schools in the Borcht-Belt of the County, for High Holy days.

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bobcat7781 t1_j9tnhqe wrote

The National Weather Service now recognizes north-west MoCo as a separate weather zone for warnings and such. The county's school system still does not. Source: my son who teaches at Gathersburg HS.

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FightTomorrow t1_j9uq1uu wrote

Hereford HS was my football rival. >:( Screw them cowtippers!

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YoYoMoMa t1_j9u6cij wrote

I remember the red lion district being similar. No idea what that even is.

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Conscious-Patience49 t1_j9ucy2q wrote

Yes. I grew up in Lutherville and Cockeysville and most of my younger cousins were in “The Hereford Zone” I remember those calls at 6:30am….. “haha we don’t have to go to school” or the kids that I went to THS that were Magnet students but they lived in the Hereford zone and would come back the next day or whatever and say how was school. You know I didn’t have to come because I live in the Hereford zone.

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BmoreBr0 t1_j9ufch3 wrote

For me it was the kids in like Wicomico or Talbot who got random ass 3 hour delays for some fog, and this was all year long!

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2468975 t1_j9v6rbw wrote

I was a Hereford zone kid. Oh the good ol’ days.

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baltosteve t1_j9vfy29 wrote

Further north, higher elevations so the weather was always dicier up that way. Flip side was back in the day it actually had to snow for schools to close and now just the threat of it closes the whole region.

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sbooz2 t1_j9vz54p wrote

Baltimore county 2 hours late... Hereford zone closed. SOABemote:free_emotes_pack:flip_out

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TheCaptainDamnIt t1_j9unqo7 wrote

No because I have never taken to this strange crabs in a bucket mindset that is so prevalent in this country of spending my time becoming enraged at some lowly fucker for getting something I didn't think they deserved. Also I didn't grow up here.

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