We usually had 3 or 4 days off every Winter for snow or ice, it was nice to have off at that time, but not so nice because some of the make-up days were at the end of the school year, cutting into our summer vacation.
I'm probably one of the few people who can say they got a day off school for
RADIATION, though! I live only 10 miles from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, and I was a senior in high school when the TMI partial meltdown occurred back in 1979 - schools were closed and we evacuated to our Grandparent's house near Philadelphia for a couple of days. Yep, those were the days...