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[jamil]

Not anymore.

Lessons are sometimes tough.

 

[historian]

Lessons are sometimes tough.

Why do we fall?

 

[LtScott14]

Agree about the basic "stay off the roads- snow emergency". Most whiny bosses don't feel you should not miss work due to personal survival. I work 10 miles away, but it is all open, rural, "snow white out heaven" If the stay home order comes out, I obey it as it may mean dying in the event no one can get to you. Dying worth $80? No way.
A live employee makes more $ for the boss than a dead one. Someone gets overtime... oh well. They wil pi** and moan, but they are alive, right?
The dipstick cruisers with" no care in the world" deserve to be ticketed. Not someone trying to get home.

 

[IndyDave1776]

Agree about the basic "stay off the roads- snow emergency". Most whiny bosses don't feel you should not miss work due to personal survival. I work 10 miles away, but it is all open, rural, "snow white out heaven" If the stay home order comes out, I obey it as it may mean dying in the event no one can get to you. Dying worth $80? No way.
A live employee makes more $ for the boss than a dead one. Someone gets overtime... oh well. They wil pi** and moan, but they are alive, right?
The dipstick cruisers with" no care in the world" deserve to be ticketed. Not someone trying to get home.

This takes in a lot of assumptions regarding unanswered questions...

I can remember having a sheriff who would declare the county roads closed if he drew a 3 foot diameter circle on the ground and two snowflakes fell inside it. It is reasonable to simply accept such an infringement on my personal freedom over someone being an asshat?

I can accept people being held responsible for actual damage they do to themselves or others, but being grounded by local officials is a bad idea and a dangerous precedent. At some point, a more egregious example will be manifested and the response will be, 'how is this different from what we have been doing for decades with snow?'

How do you prioritize anyone's 'need' to be on the road? Why should differing rights and freedom be allotted based on the arbitrary opinion of some elected or appointed official?

 

[BGDave]

Anyone besides me flip through these old threads looking for shooters?....... Man, that was a train wreck.

 

[IndyDave1776]

Anyone besides me flip through these old threads looking for shooters?....... Man, that was a train wreck.

Once in a great while, but I generally don't really have time for such a search. It is interesting to be reminded of those who have come and gone, some missed, others not missed.

 

[actaeon277]

 

[KG1]

Ticket?

 

[historian]

NECROPOSTER!!!

Reported!

 

[actaeon277]

Ticket?

No. I was stuck at work. I can't leave until someone replaces me.
Since that person didn't want to risk a ticket..

 

[K_W]

My work "never closes" for weather either. It's a major auto palrts company. We were told by our District Manager that we are "essential personnel" because we sell stuff that people Out clearing roads need, like batteries, washer fluid, and wipers. We closed once, a few hours early, when Hamilton County Sheriff was saying "close up, go home or your going to be ticketed" and "we will not be responding to non life threatening calls".

The boss got written up.

 

[HoughMade]

Here I sit with the State of Emergency in Porter County extended until noon. Well, I have some work to do here so it's not a total loss. There's nothing I have going on for a couple of hours that make me being on the roads more important than the plows being able to clear them. On my way home yesterday afternoon, I saw numerous cars in the ditch, so I have no doubt it's a mess this morning.

 

[HoughMade]

This is CR 500 N in Porter County, taken by a friend of mine not long ago:

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[eatsnopaste]

almost 60 years living here in Indiana and i have only heard of the "state of emergency, road closures" maybe half a dozen times. Here in northern Indiana we have now had at least 3 in the last two winters. It seems as if they have a new toy to play with and will use it until something else shiny comes along to distract them.

 

[jamil]

Not that there's any weather to speak of in Kentuckyana, but if there were. I'm just glad I can work from home.

 

[SMiller]

I drove across Ill a hour ago and there was 10+ semi trucks on their side of jackknifed, they got s decent amount of snow, guessing the 40mph wind with it just did the interstate in, glad to see it was dry by the time I went through.

 

[IndyDave1776]

almost 60 years living here in Indiana and i have only heard of the "state of emergency, road closures" maybe half a dozen times. Here in northern Indiana we have now had at least 3 in the last two winters. It seems as if they have a new toy to play with and will use it until something else shiny comes along to distract them.

It also depends on who is doing the playing. We had a sheriff several years back who would declare such any time he could draw a 3 foot diameter circle on the ground and three snowflakes fell inside of it.