Snow Day!

[TMurphy]

We've got snow across the Hudson, too. Schools are closed, so no work for me. Plus I have next week off!

[Rick Denney]

Who else has had work cancelled? I'm very happy to be able to relax practice today.

Cheers!

Work was not canceled. Going to the office was canceled. Which means: Digging out during the day and working at night.

This is my last week at a company where I have worked for 14 years, and I'm deeply missing the opportunity to pass off my projects in person to their successors, and to spend some time with my friends and colleagues.

Rick "looking out the window at sideways snow, barely able to see trees that are only 200 feet away, and hearing the giggling of the Mother of All Snowblowers" Denney

[bort]

Agh, you're lucky Ben!

My work wasn't "cancelled," but they were a little more willing to let us work from home. I preferred to come in today though, it's fun to watch the heavy snow from the 22nd floor. I'm going to take a lunchtime walk through lower Manhattan now and check out the blizzard. Seems like a lot was cancelled up here in NY today, but I still hear the sounds of the WTC construction proceeding as usual.

And once it gets late enough, I'll just hop on the subway and go home! Gotta love city life!

[Rick Denney]

Gotta love city life!

This is one occasion when living in the anthill provides tangible benefits.

To bad about the 5,384,675 occasions where it goes the other way.

Rick "enjoying the benefits of secluded living about 364 days out of a typical year" Denney

[bort]

Well Rick, I can certainly appreciate both sides of it. I'd be just as happy in a (well-supplied) snowed-in cabin in central Colorado.

[Dan Schultz]

I canceled work today... just one of the luxuries I can partake of to make up for some of the looong days I put in working in my shop smashing the dents out of 'little Johnny's' practice horn from school and keeping 'little Suzy's' clarinet going. I've got a stack of stuff to do... including putting back together a very nice old 1241.

The wife was off today and it just happens to be our 12th anniversary. Spent the morning just laying around the house and watching the birds. Lunch in town and a trip to Macy's in the afternoon. It going to be a quiet night. No band practices tonight.

[windshieldbug]

State of emergency here in Delaware (is that redundant!?)

[Carroll]

Another day when my work was cancelled for me. I teach in a rural school system... so we were out of school again. We have not had a 5 day school week in 2010. We do, however, have a rated concert performance in less than 1 month. We are out again, tomorrow.

I did get lots of copy work done and played with MY children a great deal. My evening rehearsals (with grown up groups) have gone on, mostly without interruption.

[tubatooter1940]

Tomorrow all Baldwin County schools are closed for the first ever snow day for the Alabama Gulf (Guf) Coast.
Talking heads are forecasting "some" snow here. We have no snow plows and local drivers have never driven in it.
The last snow that stuck here was in 1973. Four inches stuck for three days. There was a snow man in every yard and a snow man on the hoods of most cars driving down the street.
Here at six miles north of the beaches, we may not get any because the Gulf waters are so warm but we can hope.

[Rick Denney]

Tomorrow all Baldwin County schools are closed for the first ever snow day for the Alabama Gulf (Guf) Coast.
Talking heads are forecasting "some" snow here. We have no snow plows and local drivers have never driven in it.
The last snow that stuck here was in 1973. Four inches stuck for three days. There was a snow man in every yard and a snow man on the hoods of most cars driving down the street.
Here at six miles north of the beaches, we may not get any because the Gulf waters are so warm but we can hope.

Dallas got a foot, which is really exceptional for them. They also have no means of dealing with it. But wait a couple of days, and it will melt down by itself to something people can drive on. Had we taken that approach, we'd be emerging from our house in about April.

Now, we don't want really warm weather too soon because it will melt too fast and we'll have flooding. All the drains are clogged with snow and ice.

Rick "who grew up in Houston, and remembers 1973 when it snowed three times in one year" Denney

[windshieldbug]

I really appreciate the clever media/ruling-class terminology shift from "global warming" to "climate change

I dunno, change may be the right term...

They haven't been able to make manufactured snow last in Canada for the Winter Olympics...

"Repeated snow, rain, fog and too-warm temperatures have turned the Olympic slopes into a soft, mushy mess too dangerous to be used for high-speed skiing. The first women's event, the super-combined, was supposed to be Sunday, and the decision to postpone that was made Friday."