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In general I say no matter what. We live in New England so we can have rain, snow, or freezing temps. It just is what it is. I can think of one year all of the surrounding towns tried to reschedule because a snow storm knocked the power out everywhere. But it was a mess - kids were attempting to trick or treat on both Halloween night and the rescheduled night.

We have no problem in cold temps, snow, or light rain - we just wear layers and/or bring umbrellas. If it is absolutely pouring we go to the mall for trick or treating.

I have never even considered doing it on a different night! I usually don't have any candy at that point, so it would be a bummer for every kid that stops by my house.

This actually reminds me of a David Sedaris short story about some of his neighborhood kids doing their trick or treating the next night because they were busy on Halloween.

Growing up, it was always rain or shine.

Some cities reschedule it to a Friday or Saturday night, which I love, as a teacher. I'm NOT looking forward to Friday in the classroom....

Saw this on FB through "Sanctimommy" (actual name of page) -- it is sarcastic --

"I'm so sick of people in my neighborhood suggesting we move Trick or Treating to Friday just because there are going to be severe thunderstorms on Thursday night. HALLOWEEN IS HALLOWEEN and just because you don't want your little snowflake to be electrocuted doesn't mean you have the right to move a time honored tradition like trick or treating, which was invented by Jesus himself, 2.73 million years ago to another date. Kids need to learn about disappointment and you can't coddle them forever so if they can't go trick or treating in the high winds and lightening because they're weak little entitled 6 year old millennials, that's not my problem. Entitled little shits. End rant. Gimme a break. Just sayin'. Smdh."

We’re definitely still going. Unless the entire town decided to postpone I’m not sure how it would work. It’s also DDs bday so we have festivities even if trick or treating doesn’t last long.

I'm in favor of keeping Trick of Treating on the 31st but our weather is mild in CA. I'd probably feel differently in freezing rain. We're hoping smoke and power outages aren't a factor (would people open their door if power goes out?). Skies are blue here today for the first time in days so I'm optimistic.

@DesertDreams88: Our district made Nov 1st a PD day.

I have never heard of this and am still confused on the logistics of it. Who decides? I mean if it's an organization putting on an event I understand but like a whole town? And are all neighborhoods on board with this?

For example, I live in a huge subdivision (think like 200 houses) with lots of kids and there's an equally big subdivision across the street. Maybe bc ours isn't that greatly organized, even if someone or some committee decides to move it back, I don't know how all houses would feel about it and participate. I mean I don't mind endless doorbell ringing on Halloween but the next day? And I have kids...not sure how people who don't would feel. Our two neighborhoods are close in proximity so there's a lot of going back and forth. How does everyone get the memo? Again, I'm just not sold on the logistics.

I had never heard of this until we moved south to Lexington, Kentucky. We are on our second Halloween here and both times it has been rescheduled to a date with better weather. The city government makes the call. When it first happened last year, I was absolutely shocked. I was definitely in the camp that it should stay on Halloween night.

Well I've since changed my tune and I'm a pretty big fan of it at this point!! It's supposed to be freezing and raining tonight on Halloween so they moved the entire town's trick-or-treating to Saturday afternoon when it's supposed to be sunny and safer for young children. We have a lot of windy roads with not the best lighting - I definitely feel better that my kids will be safer on the rescheduled time. I think one's perspective on it is likely driven by 1) the ages of your trick-or-treaters, and 2) your fond, or not so fond, memories of trick-or-treating yourself as a child in bad weather.

We are currently in the middle of a freak October snowstorm and will have like 4 inches of snow for Trick or Treat tonight. I'm less than excited, but we're going.

@kiddosc: you in wi???? Cuz I could do without this

We’re back from the trenches! We only lasted like 20 minutes but it wasn’t that bad. It was torrentially downpouring—the worst we ever get here—but it was at least 60 degrees so we were ok.

ETA About 5 minutes after we got home, really high winds started. Perfect timing!

Our neighborhood was talking about rescheduling due to forecasted bad weather (thunder, lightning, torrential rain, tornado warnings), but we ended up with a great window for trick-or-treating around the block, and another two hours of passing out candy (my 3-year-old's favorite)!

The weather really ended up cooperating and I feel like we had the most kids EVER b/c everyone was out at the same time trying to beat the oncoming rain/wind. We don't usually go ToT but my girls had a lot of fun handing out candy!

@DesertDreams88: I saw that and thought it was funny! I was also laughing at one of the comments that was like, "Who ever heard of moving an outdoor event due to rain? That is preposterous! It’s never happened once in the history of ever!" which is a fair point. And the whole post is pretty accurate to the arguments I've been seeing, lol.

They've never moved it where I live, but I can see the appeal. Just seems a little tough logistically, but hey, who wouldn't rather trick or treat in nicer weather?! (a lot of people, apparently...)