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Are you kidding me?!?
Ok, so we all know it's gonna snow tonight. Is it just me or have people totally lost their biscuits?!? ABC News just broke into The View & announced that the NYC School Dist has already declared tomorrow a snow day. So for all you teachers out there - congrats!
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news&id=7266619
There's also an email going around my office that they want us to work ahead today & do all our work through what's due on Friday in case the storm's bad. We're already working in advance because of the 3-day weekend ahead. They predicted the same amounts for over the weekend, and what happened? Nada - not one flake all weekend. And not for nothing, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't snow underground in the subways. There are a few people in my office who live outside the city (myself included) and, ok - LIRR sucks but Metro North is a bad mammajamma and that shizz always runs. Also - ummm… isn't that what online access is for? We can all work from home if need be.
We're only supposed to get 3-6 inches. It's not like we're in Baltimore where they're supposed to get 16-24, and even if it were - oh my goodness -- SNOW?! In the Northeast? In February? Oh how ever will we manage?! I'm pretty sure the schools in Rochester don't close when they get 6".
Bundle up, put on some boots, suck it up & go to work!!
Ok rant over, sorry - I just don't get it.
If I worked in the city I'd agree with you but since I have to commute out of the city an hour + up to Westchester I say bring on the televised allegations of an impending "Snowmageddon" and office closings :)
ETA: I should probably add that I drive to work bc Metro North doesn't go to the town I work in.
Yeah it's pretty crazy. I remember when I was in 9th grade, they cancelled school for the following day because supposedly there was a hurricane coming. Yeah, there was no hurricane--it was just rainy and windy. Oh well--lucky kids! Although the best part of a snow day is having it be a surprise..
I'm with you Dancy!!! I work/live in the city and I think it's all ridiculous... When SO told me to prepare for the snow... I rolled my eyes and said oh you mean like on Saturday when everyone we knew cancelled their plans and we didn't get a single flake?? Puh-leeeeeeze!!
It's just a little snow guys!
Hehe, it's like here. Everyone was crying out for snow over the holidays but we got a brief snow shower yesterday and everyone was complaining! It wasn't even settling people! How can you complain about it?! Complain when it's 3 feet high and you're wading through snowdrifts. Not when there's some flakes falling out of the sky and melting as soon as the touch the ground. *sigh*.
Dancy and Krissy: I'm SOOO with you. I grew up upstate where a foot of snow meant nothing. The city totally goes bananas when it snows. My boss already just swung by my desk to say she and another co-worker might not be in tomorrow. They live in QUEENS. Come on, people.
FI also loves to get all crazed about the snow and I just ignore him. He is a teacher but he works at a private school and they're much less likely to close than public schools.
Here in Pittsburgh they've canceled school the last two days at the Universities, which never happens! It's mostly because with 2+ feet of snow over the weekend and 6-10 more inches expected over the next 2 days, they're out of places to put it! My brother heard that the city was paying contractors who have heavy equipment $200/hour to haul the snow to the local parks!
Haha.... same for Chicago. They kept talking about all the snow that was coming and how we were going to get like 12" over night last night and the snow was supposed to start at 3:00 pm. It didn't start snowing until after I went to bed last night at 9:00 pm, and there's maybe 3" accumulated so far. Besides, almost everyone I know takes public transportation to work, so shouldn't be a big deal! I remember when I lived in Ohio, I had to drive to work with a foot and a half of snow on the ground!
I'm outside DC and the grocery stores are an effing madhouse. Milk & Bread, people! Milk & Bread! One of the school districts already closed for the rest of the week. Although, the roads are pretty bad already so another 15 inches won't do us any good. :(
@hilsy85: I'm from Florida and we had a school day cancelled for a hurricane once and it never even rained. We went to the beach that day, as a matter of fact!
Well, I'm a teacher so I'm ALLLLLLLL over this (like a fat kid on cake, baby!!! SNOWDAY!!!!!!! ) but I will say that weather.com is predicting 8-13 inches with heavy wind, which makes it a blizzard conditions...Doesn't help you out really and i totally agree that the city usually freaks out over nothing but I'm hoping in this case it actually happens bc I. NEED. A. SNOWDAY!!!!!!!!!!
@hotchildinthecity ... i was raised upstate too... 3-6 inches?? hah!! try 3-6 feet! :)
@jenirae i can't believe how much snow PA got over the weekend and we got zilch!! Some friends of mine said their cars were completely buried!! yikes.....
@trailmix ... deff don't blame you for wanting the snow day :) but do the schools need to start announcing that they're closing now??? Heck, the sun is shining through my window right now!! LOL
Last year when "winter storm of '08" hit in Portland, I was like, Oh please! It's barely up to your kness! We'd get 2 feet in Washington where I am from and still have to carry on like normal! lol. I feel you!
wow. all i can say is wow .... i'm from Wisconsin, getting a snow day there is like a frickin' miracle - they NEVER cancelled school unless it was so bad buses were sliding off the road and you practically had to tunnel out your front door ...
It's the same in Ohio, people are crazy. They did tell FI at his office that they could leave whenever, which is fine with me :-) but it's Ohio in January people, it's gonna snow. Now I would understand tomorrow not having class and whatnot because it's going to blow so bad. But when I was in school we could get a foot of snow and not cancel at all or we would have to wait until like 8AM the day of to find out we are cancelled. Never would school have been cancelled the night before...seriously. I just don't get it at all, it's like people have never seen snow here before.
@JeniRae- 
ooops! Gah, this year is going too fast already!
@ monicka - Haha I know I prolly look psycho but it's really just that I have a hard time understanding it.
@ trailmix - not gonna lie, I'm totally jealous of teachers on days like that. But then I hear horror stories from my teacher friends about students & lesson plans & then I love my job again - haha!
@ Kittyachi-- I feel you. I live in Westchester and I have to drive to the train station. Driving is no fun in the snow - I'll give you that. My complaint is mainly city/mass transit-based.
I know DC & some southern states have been getting hit hard this week and that's understandable. Cities that aren't used to it and aren't equipped for it - I get that. I just think NYC's a little different.
I went to college in Poughkeepsie, which by all standards isn't really all that far upstate. I remember once (I wanna say 97? 98?) the snow was SO BAD that the county decided it was illegal to drive on the roads unless you were an emergency vehicle, West Point isn't far from the college & even the cadets had their classes cancelled. We still had school. It was illegal for our professors to drive to campus, but we were supposed to still have classes. That's stupid. I'll give you that. Everyone in the office today is like - shouldn't we wait till tonight/early tomorrow to make these calls? LOL
@Mrs.Tal - The months leading up to our wedding went double-time, I think! You're not the only one!
LOL: in south-central PA, we didn't EVER get those 'advance' days off, and would only be let out of school early if there had already been several accidents due to the snow coming down. They waited till THEVERYLASTMINUTE to announce school delays/cancellations. Here in a suburb of Philly, basically no amount of snow shuts us down because almost all of our professors live in the neighborhood surrounding the school. They can just walk to class. So even though the snow was up to mid-thigh, the day after it stopped we were back in full operation. I would LOVE it if we got off class for the snow tomorrow, but unfortunately I doubt it will happen. :/
Looking forward to living in New York, though, if everyone freaks out when snow's coming! Maybe it'll make up for all the snow days I missed out on as a kid, heh.
Ugh, I wish it'd just stop. We don't get days off either (the city of Chicago doesn't shut down for anything, haha) but people do forget how to drive/walk, and it's a pain. Everything is slushy and gross. I was really hoping winter was over, but it's not supposed to let up anytime soon.
@VeganGlam - same with us, or else they're down the block from an El stop. Never had a snow day yet in college, and I doubt I'll ever get one.
@Lilyfaith - I wish the snow would stop too. Saturday here in PA we only got about 8 in but I have an hour commute outside of Philly and they got 28 inches, so with the "scare" or a foot or so of more snow here is redunkulous! I know it isn't as bad as upstate NY but this is definitely different. Usually Philly gets less than where I reside but not this year. Even the Poconos was not hit with much.
If it is as bad as they are saying, my poor hubs won't be able to return home from work until Thurs. morning - No Bueno!! Bad enough I am off balance, the last thing I want to do is fall out here (Doc's warning). Ugh!
I'm also in Pittsburgh. Don't get me wrong - there's certainly a lot of snow here. But good lord - my fiance and I broke down and went to the grocery store today because we've been avoiding going, assuming it would be chaos. And it's still chaos. Seriously, you'd think people were preparing to hole up in their houses for MONTHS. The shelves were empty. I wanted to buy ingredients to make chili, and there wasn't a single can of black beans, kidney beans, or chickpeas on the shelf. I also wanted to get eggs and struck out again. And then I went to look for English muffins - nope. For real - who stockpiles English muffins?!
Hehehehe, it always makes me laugh a little to hear about other places freaking out about snow. We didn't even get a snow day a couple weeks ago when we got 5 feet in 5 days! Sigh...
hahaha love it. I grew up south of Cleveland in the "snow belt" which meant snow on the ground more days than not between thanksgiving and easter (if not halloween and easter), and school was only closed when our township ran out of salt or we got like, 18 inches overnight or something. 2 or 3 foot snow drifts were the norm.
Now I live 2 hrs south in Columbus and holy mother of freakouts every time it snows! We get 6 inches and the city shuts down for 3 days. Granted, there is no public transportation really here so 95% of people drive to work/school... but snow here would not be half as bad if 1) people learned how to drive in the snow and not freak out and 2) Columbus learned how to plow the freakin roads when it snows.
... and our HR dept just sent out a Weather and Emergency Info Hotline/Website email and basically stated:
All of our offices are expected to be open tomorrow, but we encourage folks to use their best judgment in traveling to the office.
Which, according to my co-workers & I = WOO HOO SNOW DAY!
Apparently it's not the morning that's gonna be bad, but getting back home that'll be a nightmare. I'll still come in tomorrow but I'm hoping for an early release. ;)
I kind of wish I was in the DC area and snowed in at my apartment for the past few days (provided I didn't have anywhere important to be), sounds like fun! I mean when you can't do anything about it, may as well enjoy it! I'm flying into Philly on Monday, hopefully this snow will all be over.
I admit I'm kinda looking forward to the snow (until I step out tomorrow, haha!) The last time it snowed, at the end of December, I was out of town. My work isn't closing, but it did send out a company-wide email reminding us that if we wanted to use one of our vacation days tomorrow, go ahead. Uhh, thanks, LOL
haha, I laughed so much at this post. I know what you mean about the freaking out. I'm living in Dallas right now, but grew up in Chciago and Philly. I remember one year, when I was in like 6th grade, we had a big blizzard and before it came we tried to get a few essentials like milk and bread, but stores everywhere were sold out of everything!
If you think they are going crazy about the snow there though, you should see how they react in Dallas at the thought thet it might reach 32 degrees. And snow? Absolute madness here (even though it NEVER sticks to the ground).
Conversations like this conjure up images of Inuits bitching to each other about those idiots in Valdez, Alaska who can't handle six feet of snow. Hello, like grab a parka and deal with it!
I'm just glad I don't have to go to class tomorrow. :)
I cannot BELIEVE it--I just got a text from my boss saying we have a snow day! Wahoo!!! Even tho the trains are apparently running fine...
Okay, I admit I am kind of jealous. We were supposed to get an extra 9-12 inches last night according to the weather channel, and it would have been perfect timing because I had to rush through a term paper last night. I doubt they'd close for just a foot of snow, but I'd hoping it'd snow a little more.... psh, I just looked out my window and Lake Shore is totally clear.
(The road, not the actual lake shore... that's still really snowy.)
i know! I feel like because the southern states are (rightly) freaked out, it has somehow infected a city that is getting relatively LESS snow and can deal with a LOT more. We got a foot earlier this dec. and everything was totally fine. I am excited at least we are getting some snow this time vs totally missing the last storm!
Eh, I'm at work. But my boss and lots of co-workers took off today. My commute was normal. So kinda like a freebee day at work.
Well, here in Baltimore it is pretty ugly. After 26" of snow last weekend we are set to get another 16" or so. Right now I can't see the house across the street because it is snowing so hard. FI went to get gas yesterday and the pumps were dry because they haven't been able to get the tanker trucks into the region to refill the pumps. And they are using heavy equipment to dump the snow into the Inner Harbor because there is no place left to put the snow. But we are safe and warm inside!
We have a snow day from school, but they didn't post the closing till 5am this morning, which is the absolute latest my university is "allowed" to close. FI's high school listed as closed last night before 9pm! I think that's a little ridiculous; there was maybe an inch on the ground by then! Sure, they called for up to 12 inches, but I think it makes more sense to wait and see if it actually gets that bad. It is still snowing now at 10am, and it is supposed to continue all day. We've definitely hit 12". We are in an area that is definitely used to winter weather, but I still agree with closing and stuff because as (can't find who said it now on a skim) said above, people forget how to walk and drive. I am pretty careful and almost fell four times just taking my dog to the bathroom! The snow from Saturday melted a little over the last few days and then refroze and you can't see where it is for the snow on top! And yeah, since it is still snowing, it is accumulating again as fast as they're clearing the roads. We wanted to run errands today, but I am not sure (FI has a truck and is unphased by the weather).
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