I have the feeling that Gleb doesn't have many blue collar friends.
Posted on 01/07/2025 7:25:15 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
As Winter Storm Blair wreaks havoc across the United States, blanketing highways with snow, disrupting power grids, and bringing life-threatening conditions to millions, the absence of leadership in promoting remote work is both perplexing and deeply frustrating. With the storm spanning over 1,500 miles from the Plains to the Mid-Atlantic, affecting more than 60 million people, this is a moment when proactive policies could save lives, reduce economic disruption and maintain a semblance of normalcy.
The National Weather Service has issued stark warnings, with blizzard conditions, significant icing and dangerously low visibility reported in numerous states. In Ohio, where my hometown of Columbus braces for up to six inches of snow with winds gusting at 35 mph, traveling by car is increasingly perilous. Across the Midwest and Northeast, the story is much the same: jackknifed trucks on icy highways, stranded motorists and overwhelmed emergency services.
Yet, federal, state and local governments, along with business leaders, remain silent on one of the most obvious solutions: encouraging or mandating remote work.
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To be sung to the tune of Led Zeppelin's "If it keeps on raining, the levee's going to fall."
OMG,OMG!!! It’s snowing in the Winter and WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!
I have the feeling that Gleb doesn't have many blue collar friends.
...but bad drivers and financially strapped road departments are not.
Pretty hard for me to deliver mail and packages to 700 houses from home. Tromping through a foot of snow has somehow happened every year of my career.
I’m 82 and live in Knoxville TN. I moved there in July of 1987. Before that I lived in Chicago, Detroit, and Milwaukee. When Knoxville has a snowstorm of maybe three inches everyone tends to go a bit crazy. Those other three cities simply took it in their stride. Another thing that happened up there that you don’t see much of here is serious weather sports, like cross-country skiing.
Biden signed authorization for Democrats to work at home.
The Great Blizzard of 1978 was a historic winter storm that struck the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes regions of the United States as well as Southern Ontario in Canada from Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 1978. It is often cited as one of the most severe blizzards in US history.Didn’t think twice about it. Well, maybe once or twice when the road cuts were pretty full of snow. Buick Regal, no chains.
I got to work around 8 am and the parking lot was empty. “How weird is that?” I thought. I went into the building and the guard asked “What are you doing here? We are closed.”
A snow day for work? What the heck? I wasn’t a radio listener so I didn’t get the message about work closures. I’d just gotten back to HQ after some years working in western mountains in winter (Sierras, Cascades, White Mountains, Wind Rivers) and found out easterners are pansies in snow.
When I was a kid the snow plows ran all night but that stopped years ago. Now the towns can't afford to pay current drivers because they're paying the retired ones. They can't afford to pay cops to respond to crashed vehicles for people who have no business driving in foul weather.
We're $36 trillion in the hole and there's no need to make it worse.
I delivered newspapers during the blizzard of ‘78 on a bicycle in 3+ feet of snow i Ohio.
“the most obvious solutions: encouraging or mandating remote work.”
For the sake of credibility, let’s start with the most obvious observation: global warming theory is wrong.
In 2008 Al Gore and the Sierra club said that by 2014, the Arctic might be permanently ice free. We are talking about an increase in winter temperatures of about 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Ok, they said “may.” However, if their theory had merit, it would have happened by now.
Imagine adding 60 degrees to the temperature where you live. You would not be experiencing cold winter weather. It’s currently 45 where I live. Add 60 degrees and you get 105 - hot summer weather. It’s past time for the Nobel committee to revoke the Peace Prize given to Al Gore and the IPCC. Our MSM and politicians should demand it.
When you're overrun with aliens who were riding donkey carts and have never seen snow before, it's a disaster.
Biden Secures Federal Work-From-Home
Story by Victoria Omololu
“The Great Blizzard of 1978 was a historic winter storm that struck the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes regions of the United States as well as Southern Ontario in Canada from Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 1978. It is often cited as one of the most severe blizzards in US history.”
I was living in Milwaukee ate the time and lived through it too.
In the mid 70s I applied for a position in DC. I was working in North NJ. The panel date was set and off I went the day before to be there for the 9AM schedule. Seems there was this tropical storm that worked its way up the interior coastal regions. Yes it was windy in the 225mi drive. Yes it was raining. Still, got to my motel, got up dressed, caught a bus to DC, got to the building on Constitution Ave, stopped at the entrance by a guard who asked what are you doing here. I told him I was there for an appointment. He said, DC is closed due to the storm! I managed to drive more than 200 miles in the event and they closed the city because of rain storm. It was a mess even then.
Those corporate Real Estate office buildings in major U.S. cities don’t pay for themselves .....
I was at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky, and remember it well.
Safer than flying a small plane I guess. Or the interstate where people don’t know how to crawl in bad conditions.
I do a lot of driving — not commuting exactly, but hither and yon in the course of business, and PA is very spread out. If traffic slows or stops entirely, fine with me. Car has heat, comfy seats, internet. People understand if winter conditions means you can’t be somewhere precisely on time.
Names? They all have one name. Legion!
“We are naming winter storms now?”
Only LTGBQ+ names
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