how do parents cope?

Over lunch break, I met with the housekeeper, he really seems out of a novel, tall and slim, he told me the funny anecdotes of the other fellows, like cooking a steak and the fire alarm going off. It is snowing intensely, today we expect 3 inches of snow. Nonetheless I was surprised to see broadcasted the announcement of early closing of the school because of that. 3 inches of snow are sufficient for school to close? in New England, not in Egypt. Besides, how do parents cope with that? This opens a number of interesting questions....