@LisaSTL wrote:
luckygirl, there is another consideration. The more snow an area averages, the more prepared road crews and drivers are for inclement conditions. We get enough snow and ice, crews are proactive. I still wouldn't get out of my immediate area Monday or today because they were the first snows of the season. To translate, it means anything drivers learned last year has since been forgotten Depending on how bad it is, the main roads being clear doesn't always help me anyway. I'm at the bottom of a hill on a cul-de-sac which puts my street on the bottom of the list for clearing. The storms that dump 6 to 8 inches or more in a short time can mean we won't see a plow for at least 24 hours.
I have had two occasions to be in southern cities during bad weather. A minor snow by my standards in northeastern Arkansas and an ice storm in Birmingham. Neither even bothered to do anything to the roads. I had to drive about two miles after just two inches of snow in Arkansas and was caught off guard by my car sliding because it hadn't occurred to me there wasn't even any salt down. OTOH, in both cases it was 24 hours or less before nature took care of the roads.
@luckygirl0100 wrote:
Speaking from not just a schedulers point of view, but a shoppers too, I would not want ANY of my shoppers risking their safety for a shop. I schedule for Minnesota, Wisconsin & Chicago, if shoppers rescheduled every time it snowed there wouldn't be ANY shops from November till March, lol!
@luckygirl0100 wrote:
Speaking from not just a schedulers point of view, but a shoppers too, I would not want ANY of my shoppers risking their safety for a shop. I schedule for Minnesota, Wisconsin & Chicago, if shoppers rescheduled every time it snowed there wouldn't be ANY shops from November till March, lol!
My advice would be this, don't EVER put your safety at risk but be fair and evaluate the roads. If schools aren't canceled / delayed then the roads are most likely safe enough to get the shop done.
@walesmaven wrote:
I grew up, learned to drive, and drove for many years in Wisconsin and later in Northern Michigan. So, I know where Lucky is coming from (literally!). But in the DC Metro area what we get is ice storms. If any of the 2 inches of ice happens to melt, even a little, it will refreeze into a rutted mess of ice overnight. This area does not have the equipment to handle that or even the rare heavy snowfall. As one of the Obama children said about the first local school closure she experienced here, "Back home we wouldn't even have canceled recess."But, back home the snow freezes, is plowed and stays in frozen, huge mounds well into warm spring weather. In other words, it is better behaved, from the standpoint of safe driving, that snow and slush and ice are here. If I was in Chicago, I would not have had to reschedule; here, local government was asking folks to stay off the roads if at all possible. And, with good reason. I can drive in snow; I want to stay the hell out of the way of the majority of local drivers who cannot.
Waving at you from afar, Lucky. HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!! Did your children have a chance to build their first snowman of the season?
@bgriffin wrote:
@luckygirl0100 wrote:
Speaking from not just a schedulers point of view, but a shoppers too, I would not want ANY of my shoppers risking their safety for a shop. I schedule for Minnesota, Wisconsin & Chicago, if shoppers rescheduled every time it snowed there wouldn't be ANY shops from November till March, lol!
You schedule those areas.....and are used to driving in them. Those of us who live in areas where it snows once every 3 years do not have the same options that you have. Here if 4 flakes fall the schools let out and EVERYTHING closes. The only company I've ever had give me flack about rescheduling was Strategic Reflections, a company that is headquartered in Ohio I think. I still do work for them, but not near as much as I would if they were a better company. And this is one of the 3 or 4 reasons I don't think they're a great company.
@luckygirl0100 wrote:
You're right, but you left off my "advice"... basically I wouldn't want any shopper to put themselves in danger but the OP didn't mention the part of the country they are from.