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Literally, snowed in
Thought I was going into work today, I am a private preschool teacher... they said yesterday if there is no state of emergency, come in from 9-3. The Executive Director called this morning and said its way too bad out to go in, and we closed. I thought "jeeze, is it really that bad?" The answer... YES! Hubby and I looked out our window, we could not see out it the wind had blown all the snow onto the windows and its so sticky, its stuck there. We are in worc. county and have about 12+ so far and its not stopping anytime soon. The two dogs are not happy, they disappeared in the snow until hubby should shovel a path.
Be safe out there everyone! its awful out! Ps. sorry for the big siggy AGAIN, whatever changes I make for some reason arent saving... will fix today.
Re: Literally, snowed in
I'm surprised they waited so long to close your school. On the news last night they said Worcester and surrounding areas were going to get the most snow.
DH and I just shoveled a path so we could get my car out of the garage if necessary. Of course, our neighbors would have to shovel their portion of the private drive in order for us to get anywhere, but at least we did our part. I was surprised how little shoveling our neighbors have done, actually. I know we'll have to go out to do more later, but if you wait until the snow stops falling it's going to be piled so much higher and will be harder to deal with.
Your neighbor has to shovel for you guys to get out? How does that work? Are they good about it?
We have kind of a strange set up where we and 2-3 neighbors on either side of us all access our homes via a private drive in back which doesn't get plowed by the city. We are one of the last houses on the drive so we need the neighbors in front of us to clear their segment if we want to get out (or do it ourselves, I guess).
There isn't any kind of homeowner's association to deal with plowing and in the past one of the two neighbors with plows (they had their own trucks) would just do the private drive for everyone.
Well one of those neighbors sold his house and the other decided to charge each household something like $30 per storm to plow. Now, I totally agree that he should be paid something for his work and in the past we've given him gc's as a thank you w/o prompting. But last winter he sent us a bill without ever having gotten our agreement that we wanted to pay for his services. Supposedly he plowed like 6-9 times or something so we got a good-sized bill. I was pissed, because I felt like he was forcing this down our throats and, honestly, because it was greedy. The whole drive is like 1/10 mile and there are six households that he was charging.
Wow! I can't believe he charged you without asking. Did you pay it???
Oh hell no! I think we gave him about 1/2 of what he billed us for. I was unemployed at the time and we tended to shovel our own small section of the private drive on our own anyway because we had to get to the other side of that drive to have someplace to dump the snow anyway. I was just pissed that he was trying to profit off all of us.
We actually never close, because we are a private preschool, unless there is a state of emergency. We also serve mostly inner city families who have state vouchers, so its very hard for them to actually close the school. If the weather is bad, typically we will be open a 1/2 day. I was planning on going to work 9-3 which is what we had been told would be a "reduced" school day for today. But I was VERY thankful that they ended up closing, I dont think everyone realized just how bad it was going to be.
Glad to hear everyone stayed safe today... and enjoyed a day full of shoveling! haha