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DoughtyOne wrote: "It sure is. During these situations a system should be set up to allow flexible work conditions so people could leave to be home safe during the most problematic hours.

An alternative would be to have a place available at work where folks could relax and spend a few hours holed up.

Some of these storms last quite a while though."

DoughtyOne, I like the way you think! Those are great ideas. The only hitch I think is that many folks in the Midwest tend to feel the weather is "never that bad and even if it is, it'll probably happen to somebody else."

A professor in College ignored several hours of blizzard warnings saying "They always say that. A little snow is not a blizzard and nothing to fear." She refused to cancel Zoology Lab or even end it early.

After lab, I drove home not being able to see anything but a faint glow from the street lights above my car and horizontal heavy snowfall. I couldn't see any cars parked at the curb until I was inches from them. I tried to drive a straight line guesstimating the distance from the glow above to the curb.

Fortunately the only thing I hit was a huge snow bank right in the middle of my side of the road. My car got stuck there, a fair distance from my front door so I had to hike the rest of the way home. The city issued a curfew that night and I was housebound for 4 days.