Snow day!

[rivka]

There's about four inches of snow on the ground already, and it's snowing steadily. The Weather Channel is predicting a total accumulaton of 8-12 inches. The roads are a mess, and commuter rail is running at least an hour behind and canceling trains due to frozen switches. The clinic, needless to say, is closed. curiousangel's office is technically open, but they're not expecting him to show up.

Snow day! I feel like a little kid, except that my mother isn't calling me to come out and help shovel the driveway so my dad can go to work. Somehow this is a lot more fun than an ordinary holiday. I want to go out and build a snowman.

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[geekchick]

My boss called about 9:15 to tell me the office is closed, woohoo! Not that I wasn't planning on taking one of the personal days I need to use or lose by the end of the year anyway. ;) I haven't been able to go play in the snow in far too long.

I'm actually surprised to see that the government isn't even on liberal leave today. Makes me glad our policy isn't tied to theirs.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I'm actually surprised to see that the government isn't even on liberal leave today.

Fortunately, the Prince George's County government is a lot more wimpy. I'm also allowed to just declare that it's not safe for me to come in from all the way up north here, and cancel my patients on my own, but I'd feel guilty about it if the clinic were open.

Snow days and the federal government....

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Well, there's a reason for that.

At least when we lived in McLean, it worked like this: All the people who were high enough up to declare federal offices closed lived in D.C. proper, in places like Dupont Circle and Georgetown. The rest of the grunts lived out in the Virginia or Maryland suburbs. Since the big guys could get into the office (it never snows as much in DC as outside), they expected everyone else to do likewise. We had three major snowfalls in the year we lived there, and on only one of them was any sort of a "snow day" declared, and that only enough to allow federal workers to take vacation time -- they didn't actually get a free day.

I still remember Brian hiking rhough the snow with luggage to a major street because he was expected to go on a business trip and the taxi couldn't make it up our street. (He was flying out of National, which was open, rathern than Dulles, which was not.) Fortunately (well, not for me) he was out of town during one of the two other heavy snows (the one where the furnace died).