With the big snowstorm this past weekend, did anyone get their boasting session cancelled? Or, were they foolhardy and so stupid that, even though there was 4 feet of snow and/or the power lines were down, they decided to hold the damn thing anyway?
Anyone got their meeting cancelled for snow or ice?
by WTWizard 9 Replies latest jw friends
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Burger Time
In NC almost every time it snows over 1 inch the meetings get canceled. I was actually at an assembly that got canceled mid way through. We ended up getting like 6 inches of snow in a day, it was pretty fun of course.
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WTWizard
It must be nice to have one get snowed out. That actually was my favorite kind of meeting--cancelled.
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Velvetann
We couldn't get out of our street yesterday, needed a snowmobile. I don't go to meetings anymore thankfully. I feel bad for you if you still do have to go.
When I was a witness as a child my parents would not miss a meeting unless they were VERY SICK and contagious otherwise weather would not stop them.
We ended up in so many deep ditches on the way to the meeting or home from it. I am still scared to death of driving in snow to this day. Once we were on this lonely country road and spun out on the way home from a meeting, the car rammed into a deep ditch, I can still remember the feel of the car banging us around violently and the sound of the car grinding through the snow. We didn't have seat belts in those days. We then had to get out of the car in deep snow up to our thighs and climb out of the ditch. My Mom and I had meeting clothes on and were not dressed warm and our boots were not the ones we would use for walking. We had to walk down the road in a blizzard for about 1/2 mile and then down a Long driveway to a dark farmhouse. We banged on the door and shouted and finally a farmer came to the door with a shotgun. He wouldn't let us in but said he would phone some friends to come and tow us out. FUN. I would vote for the meeting cancellation.
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JeffT
I was living in Pullman, WA when Mt. St. Helens blew. We got 8 tons of ash/acre. The state closed the roads to non-essential travel. Apparently the elders called HQ and were told that under the circumstances it was OK to cancel meetings. But I think we were all told to go over the material at home.
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BreakingAway
I was living in Pullman, WA when Mt. St. Helens blew. We got 8 tons of ash/acre. The state closed the roads to non-essential travel. Apparently the elders called HQ and were told that under the circumstances it was OK to cancel meetings. But I think we were all told to go over the material at home.
The morons actually had to ask for "permission" to cancel the meeting in the face of disaster ? Why am I not surprised ! It's a wonder some of them don't raise their hands during the meeting to get the OK to take a piss !
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StAnn
Years ago, a Service Meeting/Theocratic School was held despite an ice storm. The weather finally deteriorated so much that the meeting was cancelled midway through it. One family on their way home were hit by a truck (an elder, his pioneer wife, and their son.) The roads were so bad that it took over 90 minutes for an ambulance to arrive, with a salt-truck as an escort. One of the parents bled to death waiting for the ambulance and the other lost so much blood that she died a couple of weeks later. Their little boy in the back seat was relatively unharmed. He said that his parents talked to him, trying to calm him, until they lost consciousness. His aunt raised him. All because they couldn't miss a stupid meeting.
We had 15 inches of snow this weekend. I don't know if they had Mass or not on Sunday. I'm not risking my family's life. I don't think God is that unreasonable.
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JimmyPage
Who cares if the elderly slip on the ice? It would take an act of God to cancel the meeting! Um that's kind of ironic now that I think about it.
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compound complex
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WTWizard
If I had my way, just the fact that it is a waste of gas would be enough to get it cancelled. And double for the Crapmorial.