It’s coming down hard enough here that I told my team to take their computers and work from home.
NO! Your breaking all the rules of “Snow Day”! :eek: The whole point is we get to huddle inside and NOT work!
Oy. Purdue has closed campus for 24 hours and sent everyone home.
Happened once in 1991, during a severe ice storm… and once in 1978, during the blizzard.
I’m watching the stupid neighbor shovel his driveway, right now. He has almost shoveled the whole thing, except that the place where he started is full of snow again.
Thankfully, I have Tuesday and Wednesday off of my part-time job. However, my husband had to go in today. (He works in downtown Indy.) He had to shovel tire paths in our driveway in order to leave, but he still had to go in. Apparently, if the executives can make it downtown, everyone else is expected to be at work. When he left this morning, he said that he’d see me when he gets home – sometime on Wednesday. He’s really pissed. I just talked to him, and the only way he will be able to go home early is if his immediate boss gives the go-ahead. Unfortunately, that guy is in Louisville, so he doesn’t really have a feel for what it’s like up here. While the roads aren’t “officially closed,” they police have said that people shouldn’t be out unless it’s an emergency.
At least the YMCA has cancelled the class he’s scheduled to teach tonight! I’m not sure he’d make it there by 6:00 if he went straight from work when he gets off at 4:00.
He may make it home ok. From the news I’m watching out of Indy you guys aren’t getting slammed (at least yet) with what we have north of there. The drifts on my deck are now past thigh high and it’s supposed to accumulate more through the night.
For your sake I hope he isn’t kept from getting home. It’s no fun being stranded by yourself.
I have a crucial job interview at 2pm Wednesday in Hartford, CT… Mother Nature will not stand in my way, dammit! :mad:
…that said, I’ll probably leave at 11 or 11:30 or so to make the (normally) ~1 hour trip, and hope that I get there early enough to sit inside a Dunkin’ Donuts and bitch about being so early while I sip a nice hot chocolate. Definitely glad I have the entire day off and not just the afternoon.
On the noon news, our neck of Marion County is slated to get 12"-15". And while we’re not getting the worst of the snowfall, I still think it’s ridiculous that he has to be at work. He was in around 7:00, and was done with all of his critical stuff by 10:30. Now he’s just sitting around.
Besides, I’d like to have a bit of a break from baby duty sometime today!
I got up early this morning thinking I could still get to the train. Forget it! It’s not so much the snow that’s falling but the stuff that’s blowing across the roads. It looks like they are filming March of the Penguins 2. Where I live there are a lot of new developments, lots of farm land and few trees so there is nothing to stop the blowing and drifting.
I’m glad that I don’t live in NY now, though. I don’t know how they are surviving this.
They just told us that nonessential personnel could leave early. :dubious: Leaving it up to us to determine if we’re “essential” or not…
Started with rain this morning, followed by sleet for a few hours, now snow in whiteout conditions. Although the weather map looks like the front is passing beyond the St. Louis area right now.
Not looking forward to the traffic on the way home.
YAY! Hubby just called. His office has been closed. Now I’m going to go outside and shovel him some tire paths in the driveway so he can get in. Let’s see how long it takes for him to get home. Normally it’s 15 minutes. Yeah, right.
Snow day here, too. We had snow followed by freezing rain.
I am a bad person. I went outside to look at the sidewalk and saw evidence that someone had fallen and flailed around a bit in the yard. I laughed. I shouldn’t have laughed. And that’s why I’m a bad person.
School was closed at noon, so it’s a true snow day.
I’m thinking a nap might be in my immediate future.
Robin
Goddammit I hate working from home!! And my partner just moved to Georgia so there’s no way he’ll be in the spirit of a “snow day”!
Although last week when it was around 8 degrees, I declared the evening a “snow night” and made a fort in the living room for me and my dog.
Tomorrow will be great fun if we really get 12" like they say. I will go tunneling through the drifts - just on principle!
We let out early today – two hours. But since my school relies on buses from schools all over the county, a two-hour early closing means that we get out at 10:50.
It’s an open question whether we’ll have school tomorrow, given all the freezing rain we’re getting.
Hijack: are snowstorms usually this big? This thing seems to be about 1000 miles wide and 100-200 miles north-south.
The university where I work closed down at 3:00. This apparently means that hell is freezing over as this happens so rarely.
Heh. I had a phone call about 9 am.
Me: “Hello, Goose residence…”
Caller: “[incoherent scream]”
Me: [pause]“Um, hello? Goose residence?”
Caller: [screaming] “This is Bonzo!!” [my son, currently attending the University of Illinois] “We’re outta school today!!”
Me: “What? They closed the U of I? It’s 40,000 students! How can they do that?”
Bonzo: [screaming] “Yeah! The chancellor sent everybody emails! We’re outta school today! Woo-hoo! I gotta go call…[click]”
Har. 
South NE Ohio here…they’re saying 16-20 inches in our neck of the woods - I’d say we have at least 7-8 already. My office FINALLY shut down at 2:30 (after our Columbus, Cincinnati, Toledo, and Dayton offices shut down - only Toledo has more snow, I think), and I’m thinking we may not be in tomorrow, either. Luckily, my FIL picked up my baby earlier today and took him to their house to stay, so I only had to come home this afternoon (they live 5 minutes away), but it took me 35 minutes to get from work to their house, which usually takes about 15 or so.
My car’s stuck in the driveway - we need to shovel. My husband’s on his way home from an hour north, and it’s taken him an hour and a half to go most of the trip - he’s 11 miles away now getting gas, so I don’t expect him before 6.
Runinng through the thread real quick - they’re talking about 2+ feet of snow for us in the next two days. I’ve been told not to ocme to work if it’s bad. Hope it snows HARD!
Snow day, Schnow day… When we think there’s a chance that we’ll have some big overnight snowfall, I’m the one that gets to hit the roads at 4 am and see if it looks like a Snow Day for 14,000 + kids.
Today qualified - far western suburbs, pretty much everyone around us here is also closed. It’s been snowing lightly, but steadily, but the real problem is the wind. As fast as you can clear it off, it blows right back.
I just talked to the public works guy and he’s not all that optimistic the roads will be all that much better in the morning than they were today.
And, I’m here working - no off day for me. Though ‘here’ is the couch, not an office, so I have that going for me.
This thing is headed to Indiana to become one of those special storms only you Hoosier folks get.
hee.
Yeah, it took my ride home about 45 minutes to go the ~7 miles to my apartment from campus.
I was pretty sure when I saw that Kent State and UAkron had closed that we might go - and when Cleveland State cancelled evening classes, I was pretty sure. Still had to wait for the call from university administration though.