I just told my boss that if the weather's as bad as they're predicting for Wednesday that I would not be coming in to work at all. She wasn't too thrilled

What? Did she expect you to try and drive during a blizzard? How about she meet you there? Or if she really needs you to work, how about getting you a laptop to take home for Tuesday night/Wednesday.

how about getting you a laptop to take home for Tuesday night/Wednesday.

This! If everyone else can work from home why can't you?

Did she expect you to try and drive during a blizzard?

Yeah, odds are the city will tell people not to drive unless it's an emergency....

My mother was just telling me a story about the job she got when I was little. I guess they were concerned both about her being a mother, and about how far she lived from the office (it was an hour commute). So the first snowstorm, she got in the damn car and drove to the damn office....to find just one secretary, who lived close to the office, there. Of course none of the bosses were there! At least one boss called in, so she got credit for it.

I feel kind of bad for you all east of Utah, because we've had just one bad storm this winter, and we're better set up for this sort of thing than you folks. All our snow's staying up in the mountains where it belongs. (but I don't feel so bad that I want to take the weather for you)

We've been missed by a couple of these storms, and the rest have hit here as a few cms of snow and then a whole dump of rain. So we have maybe 5 cms on the ground right now, most of which fell overnight. It's a topsy turvy world.

I was just remembering 95-96, when my street in DC never got plowed, ever.

I remember that winter. I was living in Baltimore, and I skiied to the grocery store, which had (of course) no bread, so I bought flour and made my own.

And yeah, Baltimore just doesn't have the infrastructure to deal with three feet of snow, so they never plowed my little cul-de-sac at all. And when I did try to go to work, because the roads were clear, there was nowhere to park because they hadn't been able to plow the parking lots.

I did have a laptop once a few years ago for when I took over doing the early-morning load from a coworker when she was on maternity leave, but then I just stored it in my desk afterwards because I'm so close to work that I come in all the time. Last month, both my boss's and that co-worker's laptops went kerblewy, so one of them got my laptop until theirs was replaced, and I still haven't gotten mine back. Good thing about that was that mine did get upgraded, finally, which was one of the reasons I kept it in the drawer. So, if I did have my laptop here, I could work from home, but since they have it at the city office, no can do!

I don't mind using a PTO day to just putz around the apartment, anyway.

I remember that winter. I was living in Baltimore

So were we! It was our first winter there.

And yeah, Baltimore just doesn't have the infrastructure to deal with three feet of snow

Nope, still don't. Granted, Philly still hasn't plowed our street (or any of the side roads) and we're on a bus line. Wacky, in a cheap-ass sort of way.

Amyth, I'm so sorry for your loss.

Dark chocolate peanut M&Ms--snack of the gods.