Ski resorts hoping for a snowy March and strong finish

[billski]

A pretty good article in the Times-Argus today on how business has fared.
http://tinyurl.com/d97f34k
A nice piece of reportage about Magic. A curious observation on the dilution of school vacation across several weeks.

"One area of concern for the resorts is that the midweek business during Presidents’ Week was off from historical numbers, especially for resorts in the southern part of the state, Riehle said.

In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy some schools in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey had to make up for cancelled school days and “dialed back or curtailed their February vacation periods this winter,” he said.
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The Sandy effect aside, Riehle said Connecticut appears to be moving toward rethinking its traditional February school break and other states may as well.

“We may see school districts down-country behaving very differently with their school vacation periods in February than they have historically,” he said."

Good piece.

 

[drjeff]

A pretty good article in the Times-Argus today on how business has fared.
http://tinyurl.com/d97f34k
A nice piece of reportage about Magic. A curious observation on the dilution of school vacation across several weeks.

"One area of concern for the resorts is that the midweek business during Presidents’ Week was off from historical numbers, especially for resorts in the southern part of the state, Riehle said.

In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy some schools in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey had to make up for cancelled school days and “dialed back or curtailed their February vacation periods this winter,” he said.
...
The Sandy effect aside, Riehle said Connecticut appears to be moving toward rethinking its traditional February school break and other states may as well.

“We may see school districts down-country behaving very differently with their school vacation periods in February than they have historically,” he said."

Good piece.

I definitely can see CT school districts dropping the full traditional Pres Week vacation for a 3 day weekend in the near future!

Regardless of the 4 "natural disasters" (Irene, the Halloween 2011 snowstorm, Sandy and Blizzard Nemo) that had many school districts all over the state closed for a week for each storm, so many CT school districts now are closing for just a threat of snow/wintery precip at anytime during school hours that even in a relatively "light" winter, most school districts in CT will use up 7-10 snowdays and regularly shorten both February and April vacation weeks in an effort not to go past what is usually a 2nd week in June end of the school year