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Politics aside, if I was the mayor, I'd try to keep people out of the streets too, so that the snow removal people can do their job and bring the city back to normal much quicker.

This is the 21st century people. Most people can work from their homes via VPN connection to their corporate networks. Conference calls can still be done. Webinars. Online training can be done. Emails can be exchanged, reports can still be written...in fact, considering my current job, I can't think of a single task I can't do from home except actually meeting somebody face to face.

Why millions of people in NYC (any city for that matter) have to clamber into their automobiles and risk life and limb on the highways to get to an office on a snowy day (even if it's only a few inches) is beyond me. Just keep those people home. Get the roads cleared and bring them back to the office the next day.

All my employees are off the road today but I have assigned them training courses to take while they sit at home. Now when they come back to work tomorrow, they'll be refreshed and their training will be mostly up to date.

Contrast to that to if I made them drive to the office this morning. It would take some of them four hours to get to the office, after which they'd be exhausted and would be bitching to their co-workers the rest of the day about it. They would basically be useless to me productivity wise. Then a bunch of them would call in sick the next day.

On top of that, some of them would probably be involved in automobile accidents, resulting in yet more missed time.

Unless you have a job where you need to be at a certain place (i.e. you work in a hospital or you are a police officer, etc.) then STAY OFF THE ROADS when it is snowing.

We got about 11" of snow here in Queens. That's plenty to make driving hazardous. I am very grateful to have the day off from work, because I've had an infected tooth which has made me ill, and just had the root canal to relieve it yesterday. It was a race quite literally from the dental chair to home, as the blizzard was just tuning up then.

Roads were terribly slippery to negotiate; anything over 15mph and you'd start to fishtail. Many people (mostly the ones from tropical climes) obviously had no clue how to drive in winter weather. They were more of a hazard than the snow, acting like total ___ holes, expecting other cars to be able to stop on a dime, which you obviously could not.

Nope, I'm 100% grateful to have the day off to recover from the systemic infection caused by the infected tooth and the root canal. Antibiotics and Advil, routine of the day.

I never thought about training on the day off. That’s a great idea. I have a fairly independent job and can accomplish about 50-60% from home easily and there are always training webinars to catch up on. There are some projects I have that seem easier to slog through at home anyway and can usually keep one or two to the side for snow days. I can add training to the list.