Didn’t I just hear on Rush this week that the mayor of DC said that some people were going to have dig out their streets themselves? I think asking people to do the friggin’ street is a bit much. Being from DC, and knowing the inability of the city to deal with 5” of snow, much less the amounts they got, how can they punish people who couldn’t get into work?
How were you going to go thru unplowed streets? The Metro was closed for some of the storm and only the underground portion ran for some of it. C’mon people. Are all hospital employees considered necessary emergency workers? Is it in their contracts that you get fired if you don’t come into work? I dunno. Seems a bit heavy handed.
I could be snarky and say "just like those of us who live out in the sticks".
But I won't.
'Cuz us hillbillies have one thing going for us that the city-slickers don't.
We have a place to put the snow ...
Please. There was many a blizzard when the side street my home was on in Chicago was shoveled out by the people living in the neighborhood. The plows were all needed for the main arterial streets and it would have been days for them to get to the side streets.
As an ER doc I don’t have too much sympathy here. I have to show up for work, or else. Period.