So what do you do when the snow storm has closed all the roads between you place of work and your nice warm bed.... :'(

Charles

Depends. Has your boss come in today?

Quote from: ctwaterman on December 02, 2010, 06:09:45 AM
So what do you do when the snow storm has closed all the roads between you place of work and your nice warm bed.... :'(

Charles

Don't know. Never happend (and probably will never happen) to me. Maybe walk or use the train or something?
But *looking out of the window* I feel I have never seen this much snow over such a long time (a few days) before. And yesterday was the coolest December 1^st ever (since mankind is recording such things, that is).

I wish you the best of luck.

Quote from: ctwaterman on December 02, 2010, 06:09:45 AM
So what do you do when the snow storm has closed all the roads between you place of work and your nice warm bed.... :'(

Charles

Hope the heat holds out  :D

Usually not a problem at a major hospital... the Heat that Is.....   Its funny outside my office the Roads are wet pavement... South of the City... bad weather and several accidents keeping the roads closed.

Charles

For over 11 years now, I've been the lives close enough to always come in when the weather gets ugly guy. *sigh*

In this case I am already here I cant get home.... :'(
*listens to a forlorn cry*.... I hear my pillow calling me.... :o

Make a comfy nest from office materials and hibernate localy.
Bill it later as overtime.

Ahoj!
I think Maddox speaks sage words of wisdom.
Happily I live in a large city which has snow every year, so being "snowed in" is very, very unlikely.
Borys

Hey Charles you should have given me a ring, we have a guest bedroom.

The biggest problem for Charles getting home was a number of people got trapped on the I-90 by snow and a number ran out of gas and just left their cars on the road so clearing was made much more difficult.  That and the foot and half or so of snow in the south towns.  They are to get another foot tonight.

Michael

Quote from: miketr on December 02, 2010, 10:51:43 AM
Hey Charles you should have given me a ring, we have a guest bedroom.

The biggest problem for Charles getting home was a number of people got trapped on the I-90 by snow and a number ran out of gas and just left their cars on the road so clearing was made much more difficult.  That and the foot and half or so of snow in the south towns.  They are to get another foot tonight.

Michael

A foot here a foot their eventually it adds up to some serious snow accumlation.
:o

A foot of snow?!? I don't get that much accumulated over the whole winter(melting ignored). Where do you live?
On the other hand... traffic here gets highly disturbed the moment the first snow flakes don't melt on impact and practically comes to an halt ones it adds up to a few centimeters.

Western New York, in particular around Buffalo.  Ski country along the southern tier (boarder counties with PA) gets real amounts of snow; foot plus all the time.

Here is a link to the local paper, some stories on the storm there.

http://buffalonews.com/

Michael

Yea normally this little amount of snow wouldnt have impacted things so badly but a Semi managed to block a whole bunch of lanes and people stopped moving the plows couldnt blow and it was snowing at over 2 inches per hour while this happened.

And now we have 8 miles of Interstate highway blocked with stuck motorist... heads are going to roll in the Highway dept.....

I mean 7 feet of snow closed the City down for 3 days awhile ago and the Blizzard of 77 for over 2 weeks but since 77 the city is usually better prepared then this.

Charles

RI had a similar experience in the Blizzard of '78.  It wasn't the amount of snow that was the problem, it was the forecasters (for saying it would blow over without more than a couple inches falling) and a lot of motorists ended up stranded on the highway.  My dad remembers it (vaguely).