Let it snow

I didn't notice it as much the few times there was a hint of winter weather in the Atlanta area, but now that I'm back in the New York area, I now see that the local network affiliates are running school closings in the crawl. It's a big change from when I grew up where the only places you could depend on for school closings in my area were this local AM station and its sister FM station. The Web helps out the process as well, as does the Cablevision News 12 stations, but I guess you can also thank the increased use of the crawl, so even the network affiliates can run school closings without taking time from the rest of the news.