It is amazing to me that NYC schools will be open tomorrow. Wow, they sure know how to do a storm! Two feet + of snow would shut this Ohio town down for three days minimum!!!
@abasket yes Ohio has gotten worse since the snowstorms of the 80s
I hope my ears heard wrong but I just heard on tv that they are calling for more snow by end of the week.
I heard snow showers around Wednesday but no accumulation expected. Next Sunday will be in the 50s in DC.
KKmama, I think you have it worst of anyone here on this forum, this weekend.
If you are still reading, I find it useful in miserable and painful situations, to consider that I am being tortured in a POW camp. And there will be a specific end to the torture. And if for just a minute, it isn’t incredibly unbearable, then it is quite wonderful, to get a break from the misery. If for some brief time, I’m not sickened, in pain, or about to mentally blow my top, then it isn’t quite so bad. Okay, weird, but I swear, it helps get through the terrible times!
@raclut – I heard the same but am trying to pretend that the forecasters are wrong. I would like the current 15 inches to melt and then not see any more snow!
FYI, an impatient snow thread:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stevens-institute-technology/1855030-classes-cancelled-tomorrow-due-to-storm-why.html#latest
Any advice for Hoboken?
And in little ole upstate NY, where we normally get 10 feet of snow a year, my area did not get a flurrie! However, I will say that the predictions I read about El Nino’s affect on weather in the east is coming true.
Months ago I read that the winter would be warmer and less sever in the east but that there could be sever nor’easters. Well the weather forecasters seem to be right. Standing outside on Christmas Eve in short sleeves and no jacket and little snow when almost February in the northern east coast and record snowstorms on the lower east coast seems to be a result of this major El Niño.
A woman and her 1-year-old son died of carbon monoxide poisoning in Passaic, N.J., on Saturday after sitting in their parked car with the engine running, the police said.
The car’s exhaust pipe was buried in snow, and the woman’s husband was working to shovel the car out.
Their 3-year-old daughter, who was also in the car, was in “very critical condition”
@raclut – I heard the same but am trying to pretend that the forecasters are wrong. I would like the current 15 inches to melt and then not see any more snow!
Oldmom, that is one of the saddest stories I’ve ever heard. Be safe, everyone.
On a positive note, I just saw a buzzfeed on facebook of a newly engaged couple doing a photo shoot in the blizzard.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/keelyflaherty/a-couple-had-their-engagement-photos-taken-in-the-blizzard#.gpApyjryLx
OMG! Those are gorgeous photos!!! What a cute couple! The photographer is terrific!
@raclut. One of the TV weather guys in DC was saying there was a chance of accumulating snow on Thursaday, but the Weather Channel app just shows cloudy skies and a 10 percent chance of precipitation. I just hope lightning cannot strike twice and we won’t get the back-to-back big storms of Snowmageddon in 2010.
Here in south Jersey , we didn’t get all that much snow. Approximately 7-8 ". That was never our concern. I wish we were dealing with heavy snow and no flooding.
That being said, I have seen enough snow to last me the winter. On with spring !
2016 blizzard left perfect conditions for **snow swimming **
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35396402
Now begins the belly aching of my employees. …lol.
Here’s my simple rule, if I close the office I pay you for the day off. I closed Friday, I’ll pay you for Friday. Yesterday I drove to the office, highway was clear, parking lot was clear, I’m open today. If you can’t make it in you can use your leave or take leave without pay.
The hospital delivery side of the business now doesn’t want to open today because some of the employees haven’t had their streets plowed. And the dreaded word…fair…it’s not fair we’re opening because where they live isn’t as clear as where we’re located.
Ask them if it’s fair that you should pay them if you’re not responsible for their streets not being plowed.
In 2010, when the DC area had major snow issues, I was working at a company that did not have work-from-home capability. The office did not close, but the majority of employees could not get to work and had to take vacation time or unpaid leave. On one day, only 5 of 55 employees were able to get to work.
Eventually, the company president decided that the office would open on a couple of weekend days so that people who wanted to make up missed time could do so. This also enabled the company to meet some client deadlines that we would not otherwise have met because so many of us had missed work.
Would something like that work for your company, @eyemamom? Or is the nature of the work such that it can’t be done on a weekend?
^ My company is not closed today, but I am working from home. My other option is to take a PTO day which is what H is doing (WFH is not an option for him). There is about 30" of unplowed snow on our street, we can not get out.
I consider us fortunate. We don’t own a business that will suffer economically. We have options and will still get paid. We are well enough off that unpaid leave would not cause us problems. We do not work in health care or public safety.
Lots of folks much worse off.