rrupert wrote:
Fizz wrote:
Basically, some people are idiots.
It's winter, check the weather, be prepared. STAY HOME.
Up here winter storms are a way of life, happens two, three times a year.
I know many people I worked with would go from garage at home to garage at work lightly dressed for work, jacket and tie or heels and skirt. Howling winds, 20 below and not prepared.... idiots
I think there are many people that never check weather reports before they head out the door.
I don't think it is as simple as checking the weather. I don't think the truckers are allowed /able to just call in. Maybe they should be, but commerce does not stop. The rat race must go on. The roads remain open until they are closed.
The only way to avoid all of this is to preemptively close the roads as a precaution. Who is going to sign off on that!
What happens when the roads are closed and the storm never actually comes? We shut down schools in the mid Atlantic with zero snow on the ground do we need to apply the same approach to the highways?
