Snowzilla. How are you affected?

[Don M.]

I'm always amazed at how one of these major snowfalls leaves so many people stranded on the highways, etc. Doesn't anyone watch the weather forecasts, anymore?? When one of these storms is due to hit, the media gives people plenty of warning, and the best advice is, and always has been, Stay Home. The vast majority of employers will have no problem with everyone taking a day or two off while the road crews try to get the roads cleared. All these traffic tie ups do is make that job that much more difficult. When the police, ambulances, and fire trucks cannot get through, some clown in a small car trying to go somewhere is just Asking for Trouble. Then, in many of the older sections of the cities, there are no driveways, etc., for people to get their cars off the street....and that makes clearing the neighborhood streets a real problem, when they are cluttered with cars. I guess some people just have to "reinvent the wheel" every time bad weather hits.

 

[fureverywhere]

My niece owns a bunch of dance schools. Like you say, don't people watch the weather reports? They had a yearly recital in NYC on Saturday. Seems to me that at least one of the powers that be might decide to reschedule the whole thing. But no they went and of course they shut down the city. So you have a hotel of students and chaperones stranded. Then the hotel put up signs on each door...no food service. So the adults had to wander out and of course all the restaurants are closed. Guess they had to find a stray bodega. Certainly a trip those kids will remember!