NYC Area Blizzard

[Addison4300]

Originally Posted by loyal

Samuel Clemens once wrote " If you don't like weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes."

That applies to us here in Texas as well.

[rpaulsen]

Originally Posted by MikeE

It's a combination of population density and the type of snow.

There are 4.6m people living within ~30 miles of Boston*, so even a 4" snow storm hitting during weekday rush hour causes massive traffic congestion and limits road plowing.
* For comparison that's 15 times the population of Michigan's Upper Peninsula in less than 25% of the area.

This definitely underscores the issues here in NYC as well. While New England may get a few more inches of snow than we do, we have something like 20mil people in that same ~30 mile zone. Even with the most extensive public transportation system in the world, theres still close to the population of Boston driving home to work every night on our roads.

[Brian C]

I have to add this although I'm thinking no one wants to hear it:

Welcome to the 'real' world.... deadlines and constraints happen all the time in business.

Adjust, adapt and overcome...... that's the only advice I can offer

BTW the 2 teams I mentor are on Long Island and are affected as well.

Good Luck!

[dellagd]

Turns out the Philadelphia area was quite over-estimated for snow totals, nice to get a few days back.

[Ether]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

It's times like this that I sincerely miss Florida.

After living in the steamy swamps of south Florida for 2 years back in the early 80s, I swore I would never again complain about a Michigan winter.

And I never have.

[rpaulsen]

Originally Posted by Brian C

I have to add this although I'm thinking no one wants to hear it:

Welcome to the 'real' world.... deadlines and constraints happen all the time in business.

Adjust, adapt and overcome...... that's the only advice I can offer

BTW the 2 teams I mentor are on Long Island and are affected as well.

Good Luck!

No you are completely right. Overall just going into the Blizzard that never was, I was really just intending on sarcastically portraying my interest in enjoying the excitement of build season. We are actually quite far along in our process, and honestly I'm the schools librarian, (and our teams only mentor) so deadlines and constraints barely come into my mind, I just enjoy providing the students with the opportunity to work through the process of creation.

[dradel]

So no build this past weekend, no build yesterday, no build today, and no build tomorrow. Yay (sarcastic) oh and another snow event for Friday.

[devg29]

Originally Posted by dradel

So no build this past weekend, no build yesterday, no build today, and no build tomorrow. Yay (sarcastic) oh and another snow event for Friday.

Wow we're really on a roll here (a bad one)

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by Hallry

We already know that we will not be able to work today or tomorrow.

Well, thanks to the storm moving further to the East to expected, our team's school district was closed today, but thankfully our awesome custodial staff was able to get the parking lots plowed and opened the school for us from 1 to 6 today (which was probably our most productive meeting in a while). A great outcome compared to what we were worried might happen due to the weather. Hope everyone else is getting by okay.