and did they make you make up a meeting that was cancelled?.......We had a couple of elders that LOVED to schedule extra meetings in the week because a snowstorm cancelled it. We had a few elders that would make it a point to keep a meeting going during the worst of snowstorms. For years, we wouldn't go if the conditions were icy----simply because we could get killed! Yet out of 100, at the time, about 35 would travel thru the roads while at the same time praying to Jehovah for a miracle to get there in one piece.
Did Your Hall Make You Go To Meetings During Inclement Weather.......?
by minimus 21 Replies latest jw friends
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MerryMagdalene
NA...we lived close enough to the KH that we could walk, so sometimes we were the only one's there. But that was a rarity.
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minimus
Lesson: Don't live close to a Kingdom Hall. Actually, it's best to live outside the territory so as to be left alone.
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MerryMagdalene
Lesson learned!!!
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confusedjw
It really loosened up the "can't miss a meeting elders" when in a terrible snowstorm a brother was killed and his wife very seriously injured. It was bad weather that was predicted to get much worse. Yet it was thought that the "show must go on" - well it didn't for him. On the way home in blinding snow and roads too slippery to be on they had a head on crash with another car.
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JH
Always having to pick up someone, almost forced me to go to the hall even when the weather was not too nice.
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MerryMagdalene
Did your cong ever have a problem with the sisters dressing for inclement weather (like wearing pants under their skirts but tucked into their boots so no one really knew, but somehow they got ratted out anyway and admonished for wearing masculine clothing)?
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catchthis
I remember back when I was "in," there was a big snowstorm that closed most of the county in which I lived in. From where I lived, there was only two routes to the KH. One was usually closed during big storms as it wound along a lake and it could be easily driven off into. The other way was a typical two lane road that was always driven by tourons that did not know how to drive in inclement weather, even with 4-wheel drive.
I thought I would have some fun that evening and come to the KH in style. I rode my snowmobile to the KH. It was only about 4 miles from my house. I had a talk that night, a number four. I remember working on it while I was at work and that I spent a lot of time preparing for it. I put my meeting clothes in a small suitcase which I strapped down to the rear of the sled. Snowmobiles were a common sight in the winters on normal roads.
I showed up at the hall in my riding clothes - parka, bib, snowboots, etc. carrying my little suitcase. I changed into my meeting clothes and waited for the meeting to start. That night, only about 20 people out of 100 showed up. Yep, no official cancellation was sent out. So now I get to give my number four in the front instead of the back school. But I tell you what, it was the most interesting meeting I have ever been in. It felt like a book study it was so small. Everyone sat in the front of the hall instead of scattered around. I think only one elder made it and he led the whole meeting.
p.s. this congregation was in a high altitude location and usually had large amounts of snowfall. the entire time I was there, there was never a meeting which was cancelled. other places in which i have lived, meetings would get cancelled if just a little bit of ice was present.
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Soledad
no, my congregation wasn't stupid like that. there were (are) many elderly people and the elders didnt want to risk their safety. in 20 years I think about 5 meetings in total were canceled because of snowstorms and 1 summertime blackout (the big one in '77 NY)
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Undecided
I always cancelled the meetings because I enjoyed driving around playing in the snow.
Ken P.