i love this time of year. to go or not to go to work in snow is the question. i know there are a ton of threads on this topic but once again we are faced with this decision.
what are your plans this year? are you going to risk your life and others to make it to work ? are you going make over night plans to stay at work ? or are you just going to stay home.
if its lightly snowing and i can drive in it then sure i will go. however, if i feel it is too dangerous to drive in snow then i won't go in. if i get in an accident on my way to work then what good would i be anyway? if i'm at work already and someone calls out, i will stay.
Let It Snow!! Yay love it... The place i worked before had a policy on snow days NOOOOOO Call IN's Period.. If you call in your fired. Our Admin and DON would say if you know it's going to snow or you see it starting to snow you best head in to work. She didn't care if you had spend the night or not. And i have spent the night at the nursing home a few times because of snow and bad roads. The Ice Storm was the worst. These are my thoughts use them as you wish..
I'm a home health nurse in Vermont, so I'm familiar with snow. I have snow tires, and no qualms about driving on snow (not ice, but snow). I also work 3 miles from home.
I always just took it real slow and slipped and slid on in to work. :snowflake::snowflake::snowflake:Kind of nice to be counted on, really. I always thought it made for a feeling of camaradarie once we all got there, that we all, well, most of us anyhow, made it in alive in spite of the roads. :w00t:
:reindeer:One afternoon on the way home, a normal 30 minute ride was 6 1/2 hrs of bumper to bumper traffic!:snowman::snowman::snowman:Everyone left downtown early at the same time that day it seemed. Ayayay~~~
I inherited an enormous 4X4 vehicle; it will have to be the apocalypse before I can't get to work. I'm on a voluntary list (along with several other coworkers who own ginormous 4X4s) to taxi other in-town coworkers to and from work in terrible winter weather. I didn't get called last winter. I hope, hope, hope that I get a call this winter! I *love* driving in the snow. I grew up in an area that received some major snows during the winter, and I got to school every day in an old ford escort, no matter the weather.
No, I'll not be calling out for winter weather.
that's what i was going to say - ask someone to drive you. i live in the country and our roads don't get salted/cleared for days. in fact, school has been out all week and my driveway is LITERALLY a solid sheet of ice. i had to go take a final this AM and got very scared when i went down the hill on my street and slid. i just drove very, very slow. BUT if i called into work to say i couldn't drive, i would (and have) ask if someone could come and get me. i think they appreciate that a lot more than just saying, "i'm not coming." it shows you really aren't just trying to get out of work at all costs.
I have a Corolla, and I put studded snow tires on it every year. That thing drives like a tank in the snow. My only problem is black ice, but if I know the ice is there I'm great once I cut my speed in half.
Getting out of the driveway after the plow dumps a 3ft bank in front of me is my biggest worry in the winter.
I have a 4X4 Jeep Cherokee (my daily driver), and a ginormous (and ancient) V10 Chevy Suburban, also 4x4. The Cherokee does great on the roads, but don't know that I could get out of a ditch in it. The Suburban can drive out of a ditch (as me how I know!), and my brother has a set of chains that fit it (never had to use them, though). It slides on ice but keeps right on driving. Too bad the gas mileage is awful. I keep it as a backup.
I have driven home in a blizzard, and on roads graded "D" by ODOT, in each vehicle. I live 25 miles from work. I leave lots of extra time, though, and drive extra careful. I haven't had to call out for weather YET. Probably the worst part would be getting out of my driveway, which drifts pretty badly, and then of course the end gets plowed in by the city clearing the streets.
I've also driven a Camry in a blizzard, and on sheets of ice, not for work though. That was not a fun trip. I thought I was going to crash for sure in downtown Akron on pure ice, where any application of gas sent the car sideways, not forward. I coasted through it and made it in one piece.
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Let It Snow!! Yay love it... The place i worked before had a policy on snow days NOOOOOO Call IN's Period.. If you call in your fired. Our Admin and DON would say if you know it's going to snow or you see it starting to snow you best head in to work. She didn't care if you had spend the night or not. And i have spent the night at the nursing home a few times because of snow and bad roads. The Ice Storm was the worst. These are my thoughts use them as you wish..