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Yes I have been in 48” of snow...so your point is...let the patients suffer?

Most of the employees made it to work that morning, I wonder how they did it? Of course some were staff who got stuck in the hospital during the storm. Bet you folks managed to get into the ER for treatment.

You do what you have to do to take care of the patients. I have been a nurse in states that get snow, Michigan and Kansas to name two. Here in Dallas when we get 2” of snow and ice mix people call in. Its common place to find 1 nurse call in, and another come in and they live within 5 blocks of each other.

First off, it's a big hospital with lots of redundancy. Secondly all elective surgery was canceled. Thirdly, ER operations throughout the region pretty much ground to a halt ~ with no people on the road or "doing stuff", there were simply fewer needs for ER, and Fur shur, you didn't have a bunch of illegals out wandering around trying to get free medical care.

Regarding motor vehicles that can scoot around in 48" of snow, they are called large trucks and earth moving equipment.

No, your typical nurse couldn't just go out to the curb, dig her car out, and go anywhere.

In this area the 12 hour nursing shift is standard. No patients were deprived of care. The people who got to work "the next morning" were already there. They stayed. Pretty obvious to anyone in this part of the country there was no way they could get home!

Still, if the hospital wants to get its people to work they'd best pay to get DC streets cleared ~