I'd just started working at this quite successful major market A/C station with their trenchant news-heavy approach. Two days into it all, they had a a late overnight blizzard -- on April 6th.
We knew it would all be gone that afternoon -- melted -- since it would get up to 52° or so. But for a few hours that morning .... maybe 6 to 8:00 .... there was chaos, on the roads and on the newsroom phones. The sun had come out, was already turning the snow into sheets of ice, and with immense snow-blinding to boot during morning rush. Many accidents. I'll never forget the date, and the chaos that morning with the school closings -- two days after I'd begun working there. For maybe two hours I was on the phones which never ceased ringing.
I realize that, for radio purposes, snow-closings are not 'scheduled' per se. Conditions vary from event to event and time of day ... weekday/weekend. And it seems sensible to suggest that the parents of school-age kids would be at that very desirable age (mid-Thirties?) sought by any radio station, let along an AM station.
So what is KYW going to use as backup content for those four or five such days? More commercials?