Back when I was a kid, you had to be attentive to radio and/or TV every 10 minutes to listen for school closings/delays due to weather. You had to actually put effort into seeing if you were lucky to be snowed out. And if you missed the alphabetically organized listing, you had another 10 minutes of agony, waiting and hooping and praying that Mother Nature did sufficient damage to the local roadways.
Nowadays, the school will call you and text you and email you, and damn near turn off your alarm clock for you, in order to notify you of such luck. Horsebleep.