How many of you will be missing work due to the weather conditions?

My journey is about 90% motorway, 9% dual carriage way and 1 % single lane so it's mostly clear for me. Although they did forget to grit about half a mile of the A1(M) earlier in the week :eek:

MW
 
WFH but made a token effort to take my daughter to school in the next town. I have winter tyres on the car but it was still tough going, many many cars stuck all over the place, passed my neighbours wife stuck at an uphill junction.

Got half way to school before deciding to bail out and turn around, mainly as my daughter was getting sadder the closer to school we got. Got home, parked car out of the estate near the main road. ;)

Just cleared the snow off the drive, and same neighbours wife has just returned home with front end damage. *chuckle*

The winter tyres are fantastic, but the weakest link is everyone else getting stuck and blocking the roads.

Got email when I got home, school is now closed - could parents please try and get back there and collect their kids... :rolleyes:
 
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School got shut an hour after we dropped the kids in! Pathetic really but I can see why they do it. People can't get in to the school easily and risk of kids getting stuck there. I'm vpn'd in from home to work. Why wouldn't you on a day with even a bit of snow. Just not worth the hassle.
 
I drove about half way to work before encountering a queue of traffic trying and failing to get up a hill. My 20 year old astra on budget tyres was never going to make it so I parked up and walked the rest of the way.

I'm hoping the roads will be a bit less hellish on the way home, otherwise I may have to abandon the car there over the weekend.
 
Nope, I'm at work like usual :(

There has been snow here for a week or so, we had another 10cm last night on top of the existing stuff but it's a long way off making any noticeable affect on daily life.

Hopefully it'll stick around until the end of the month as I'm going hiking and camping for 4 days in one of the national forests :)
 
The schools here sent out text messages at 630 this morning saying they were closed, I drew the short straw and came to work while my wife stays home with the kids.
 
Told to go home, probably had like 15 people in the office. Considering everyone has VPN access and WebEx etc for phone calls nobody really needs to be in unless you have like lab admin stuff to do.
 
Coming down really heavy here in Newcastle.

Not a chance we would get sent home, could be an interstellar war and I would still be here hahhaha!
 
Working from home here :)

I fail to see the logic in forcing employees to travel to work in conditions like this.
If your role is not operations critical then kick in the BCM plan.
 
I was advised to go home at 10:30, so I did. Working from home but to be honest most of the people I need to speak to get things done have gone home anyway.
 
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