I think that would get me a few days off of work... I wish I could sign up!I won't complain anymore.
With 78 inches of snow already, a CNY town braces for more: ‘It’s coming down in buckets'
Even for lake effect snow country, this month has been extreme.www.syracuse.com
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I've been in the workforce since 1980, but didn't move to NH until 1987. that is when I got my first 4WD vehicle and put some nice aggressive (and expensive) tires on it. Since then, I always got up super early and cleared a path, cleared off the vehicle and assumed I would be going an average of 15-20mph for the 30-55 miles to work. There were several times that the road that lead me home for the last 13 miles was shut down from ice, and I'd have to go 10+ miles out of my way to go around. It was always great to take 2 hours or longer to get home.
Actually a lot of the time when I lived at my previous house, we would not clear any of the driveway until we got back home (uphill, both ways - literally as a horseshoe driveway). But at that time the ex would usually already have started clearing the driveway before I got back home (at least enough to get my SUV out of the street). At this house, I would snow blow the driveway before I left if there was a lot, or I needed to take care of the berm (that is bad enough to take care of without having driven over it). I'm sure my neighbors loved to hear me snow blowing at 4am so I could leave at 5. Of course I would leave all the paths and extra parking space until I got home from work.
Since 2014, I've had jobs that I could usually log in from home. If bad weather was expected, I would take my laptop home. That just meant that I would log in earlier and log out later - while taking a long lunch to clear the driveway and parking spot. Also, a lot of times I will go out and clear everything in the middle of the storm, so not as much builds up. This time, with the icing event in the middle of the storm, I couldn't do that.
I've been WFH since March of 2020 so now I don't have to worry about that stuff as much. Good thing too since now I'm old and cranky
. Now I can pick and chose when to clear the snow so don't have to wake the neighbors - but since I'm, up wicked early, still think about it 
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See I don’t doubt me or my truck’s ability to make it to work, it’s everyone else on the road’s ability to not wreck my truck or kill me is the problem. The people near me like to drive like it’s bright and sunny out even with ice all over the road and tend to fly off the road into the ditch. I don’t need them totaling my truck or hurting me I’ll just take the day off.I've been in the workforce since 1980, but didn't move to NH until 1987. that is when I got my first 4WD vehicle and put some nice aggressive (and expensive) tires on it. Since then, I always got up super early and cleared a path, cleared off the vehicle and assumed I would be going an average of 15-20mph for the 30-55 miles to work. There were several times that the road that lead me home for the last 13 miles was shut down from ice, and I'd have to go 10+ miles out of my way to go around. It was always great to take 2 hours or longer to get home.
Actually a lot of the time when I lived at my previous house, we would not clear any of the driveway until we got back home (uphill, both ways - literally as a horseshoe driveway). But at that time the ex would usually already have started clearing the driveway before I got back home (at least enough to get my SUV out of the street). At this house, I would snow blow the driveway before I left if there was a lot, or I needed to take care of the berm (that is bad enough to take care of without having driven over it). I'm sure my neighbors loved to hear me snow blowing at 4am so I could leave at 5. Of course I would leave all the paths and extra parking space until I got home from work.
Since 2014, I've had jobs that I could usually log in from home. If bad weather was expected, I would take my laptop home. That just meant that I would log in earlier and log out later - while taking a long lunch to clear the driveway and parking spot. Also, a lot of times I will go out and clear everything in the middle of the storm, so not as much builds up. This time, with the icing event in the middle of the storm, I couldn't do that.
I've been WFH since March of 2020 so now I don't have to worry about that stuff as much. Good thing too since now I'm old and cranky
I use the road that I live on as a gauge for whether I come in or not since it’s a main road. If it doesn’t look bad I’ll come in. If it isn’t cleared at all and looks like a sloppy mess I’ll just take the day. I also don’t get pto or anything so it’s whatever I can afford, I won’t get penalized for it.
I have a track and ski kit for a plated motorcycle, I've always wanted to take it to work. I'd bet I could avoid a ticket if the snow was deep enough...
This last one to hit western Canada has been a bit uncomfortable, -40C for the last 6 mornings. The BK has been getting a good workout. It is getting old by now, really makes a guy appreciate summer!
And BC (more Western Canada) could really use some winter, we got a bit of cold, and a bit of snow but not enough and we are running out of season.
I didn't know that Saskatchewan folks called Saskatchewan Western Canada?
We sure aren’t central or eastern Canada geographically or politically speaking.
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