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