"Whimp" or "Wimp?"

Is it spelled "Whimp" or "Wimp?"  Today, it's the schools who are "whimpy" or "wimpy."  C'mon...no school with 4" of snow, maybe 4 1/2"?  Granted, in our large school district, snow depths can vary by quite a bit.  Where we now live might have 2-3", while where we once lived could have 7-8" and vice versa.  So I know.  But....  There was no reason, that I can see, for no school.  Now, last week it was nasty--icy and I certainly wouldn't have wanted to drive or ride on a bus with the slick roads.  But today?  Now I know the media, once again, blew this one out of proportion.  When I got home from class last night and settled, Karen was watching the news, which was all about the weather.  Oh, the storm coming in!  Stores were surveyed.  The road commissions were interviewed.  The maps were pulled out.  And, fizzle, fizzle, fizzle....  All that for 4"?  I haven't seen that any areas around here received more than that.  My guess is schools will point to "All the schools around here were closed," as if that's a good reason.  What did my mother use to tell me?  If everyone else jumped off the roof, would you, too?  Still, the kids and Grandma were excited to have another day off.

It sure is pretty out there.  I don't know what Round it now is (not with the four or five or six 1-2" snowfalls we've had the past couple of weeks), but today's shoveling was fun and, to my surprise, pretty easy.  I expected a heavier/wetter snow, but it was quite powdery.  I know, I know...thinking that shoveling show is fun is sick, but I enjoy it. 

I still wonder why so many folks, with teenage kids, either have snowblowers or plow services.  Shouldn't kids be shoveling?  I suppose, though, that the economy, namely snowblower producers and health care (at least the future) providers, will benefit.