I had to chuckle..........

Our daughter is a paralegal and Office Manager for a real estate title company in Washington DC.

A week or two ago, they had about two inches of snow one day. A couple of the younger employees wanted to take off work because of the snow.

Amy told them, "The boss is from Minnesota, our staff attorney is from Ohio, and your Office Manager is from Nebraska. We don't go home for two inches of snow".

Ha ha !Quite a gal . My oldest daughter is a manager in a printing firm in In. She's encountered similar situations with her employees . She comes back to Pa in some of the worst weather & it scares me to death . She says Dad, quit worrying . I'm an ole Pa gal & I do know how to drive in snow & ice . Gotta love the courage our kids show (at times) . God bless

on the other side back in the 70s went to mich. took the kids to my folks farm for the summer work was slow here in texas. so i got a job in a small machine shop in my home town it got about 95 degrees i wasn't paying much attention around me.was concentrating on work in a milling machine looked up about 2 pm i was the only one left in the shop went in the office was told it was to hot so they all went home

Our Daughter drove from central Ohio Cuyahoga Falls, to home today. Left about 8:00 am She ran into light freezing rain on our end of trip, ( must be the new beet juice mix is working) with no problems 7+ hr. drive. All is well. I posted pics. on sunday of the fog frozen on everything and how it usually leads to freezing rain within 36hrs. It took a bit longer but we got it today.

Wow, you got freezing rain today? The air was damp here in Duanesburg, but we dident get anything. There guessing a dusting to a inch tonight!

Yep ! When I worked in a machine shop yrs ago , I operated the wash , rinse & Parkerizing tanks . They were very large 6'x6'x6' steel tanks with 3 boiling hot & 1 cold rinse . One was accustic acid for washing & believe me , it was hot in the summer . I rigged up an air hose to blow cool air on me & to get the steam away whenever I had to pull parts out to do a rinse . Wasn't allowed to go shirtless due to hot acid splashes plus I had to wear a cussied hard hat & glasses to add to discomfort . There was no going home due to the heat there .I remember one hot summer day, I called the wife & had her bring me down some dry work cloths since the ones I had on were soaked from sweat . Needless to say , not many older guys in siniority wanted to bump me off .And the accustic acid we used came powder form , whenever I had to strengthen the tank I would have to scoop & throw the powder in the tank . The fumes were so bad it nearly put me down a couple times . And the tank would nearly errupt when the powder hit the hot water which made me even hotter . Oh the tales I could tell of those days . But now I can't take the extreme heat or the cold . Merry CHRISTmas & God bless, Ken

Freezing rain here in the Finger Lakes too. Temp on the bank display said 21.

Its 24 here now, and it just started a little light snow.

Freezing rain here in the Tug Hill area--roads were pretty slick when I left for a Christmas party at 6:00 and no better when I came home at 9:00.

Got up the other morning here in NC to 38 degrees outside and rain....though there had been a slim chance of ice overnight....Well I guess I should be a little more exact here. I got awaken at 5AM the other morning by a county wide call from the school system saying that due to the inclimate weather school was canceled for our little girl. Since she goes to a day care at the school that doesn't open when the schools don't we had no day care that day either. Fortunately I am self employeed and could stay home with her and work while my wife went in to her job. I feel for parents that had to waste vacation days they might have needed for a real emergency or for a real family vacation over a stupid decision like this..

Got to be that around here the mear mention of "bad" weather and the school system closes. I can't figure out wether they don't feel the bus drivers are qualified to drive on wet roads or what. They do give out a list of 'alternative' pickup points for the kids at the beginning of the year, supposidly to keep the busses off of the 'bad' back roads that don't get serviced, but in nearly 16 years I have yet to see them used. Instead they just cancel school all together and then jump through hoops trying to make up all the missed days come summer time. I know when I was growing up it had to be BAD out before busses idn't run or they even called school off early. Really makes you wonder if they just don't trust the drivers are are just soooooooooo worried about a parent suing because their kids bus slid off the school.....Either way it's a sad state of affairs the way things are being done. The amount of time and money are wasted by the schools doing this would probably stagger the imagination in an era when they are already begging and saying they are under funded. Then add on the burden put on the parents because of all the stupidity and it makes things even worse.....

When I went to school in the late 60"s / early 70"s somehow no matter how bad the weather seemed to get, The School bus always seemed to get through. Nowadays after half a dozen snowflakes everything stops.

(quoted from post at 23:38:51 12/22/10) When I went to school in the late 60"s / early 70"s somehow no matter how bad the weather seemed to get, The School bus always seemed to get through. Nowadays after half a dozen snowflakes everything stops.

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At least you had a school bus... We had to walk 20 miles in a blizzard to get to school and back....... Uphill both ways.....

Dave

up hill both ways and no shoes I suppose!!!

On his hands and knees.

When our daughter was in school, I told her once that when I was her age I had to walk 7 miles to school in two feet of snow, in zero weather, and it was uphill both ways.

She replied, "Dad, did I ever tell you you're full of s$it?"

She was onto me then, already.