Bonnie;

From what the media has told us, a contractor installed a new system to control the heating of the schools. There was a "software problem" and the system failed. The contractor is being sued big time, from the "City that forgot how".

Tom


>Tom,
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>Yeah, the snow they got all excited about a few years ago (up in the North Bay anyway), was a dusting of it up on Mt. St. Helena ... and it was gone by the end of the next day, if I recall correctly.
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>Why did the SF schools not have heat?
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>>Bonnie;
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>>I envisioned 1/4 inch of snow on the ground at Petaluma. The Bay Area comes to a complete hault due to massive amounts of ice and snow! :) Well, they must of had more. "Deep" is just a bit subjective. One day in 1962 the guy on the radio was screaming over and over, "It is snowing in San Francisco"! I ran outside - no snow. It turned out it was snowing on Mount San Bruno, in Daly City! :) This time there was 6-8" here and there - not a solid mass through out the Bay Area. We saw none in Sunnyvale but Los Gatos had 2" on the ground. North Bay seems to have had the most.
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>>Would you believe - 32 of 35 San Francisco schools had no heat yesterday and held classes on one of the coldest days on record! "The City that knows how"? Sure has changed for this fourth generation San Franciscan!
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>>Tom