Miasmatic Review

No Snow Day

Oh Glorious Day! The local news channels started declaring Gloom and Doom yesterday and by this morning it was full blown, “worst storm in the last 12 months.” Sadly enough people actually believe it. After living in Northern Illinois for 30 plus years, I know that whenever the local weather service calls for severe weather there is only about a 25% chance that it’s going to be close to what they call for. IE, originally it was supposed to hit at noon today, as of right now it’s not going to hit until after midnight. They are calling for 3-12 inches of snow. More like 2-3 with their record.

I already had employees ask me if they are going to close the office tomorrow. My standard answer was a resounding no. I even told my people that if they call and say they can’t make it in, I’d drive over and pick them up in the morning. However, I will charge them for gas. I have never missed a day of work in my life due to bad weather. Even when we did get a couple of feet of snow in one storm and I had a 45-mile commute, I didn’t miss work. There has not been a situation that good safe driving can’t get you where you are going.

Of course all the people are at the store buying bread and milk. I can’t remember which blogger did a post on it, but every time they call for bad weather everyone runs to the store to buy bread and milk. I’m not sure why, but they do. This means the roads are packed with panicked drivers trying to race and beat one another to the store. Right now the real threat isn’t the possible snow covered roads, it’s the idiots out rushing around. I saw three accidents on my ride home tonight. The snow hasn’t even started yet!

Personally, I would like to see 2-3 feet, yes feet, of snow. We haven’t had a good snowy winter in years. It could drop a foot of snow a week between now and New Years and I’d be a happy man.