First Snow Day of 2009…Well Not Really!
Today we had a blizzard warning out for the county in which I live. That being said I woke up this morning and it didn’t look too bad outside so I got ready for work and went on my merry way. I started driving and as I was driving it was getting worse and worse. The visibility wasn’t that good and the roads were getting more and more snowy as I kept on driving. The place that i work at has vehicles that there employees can drive and I use one of these vehicles for my job. I pick up the vehicle and use that to pick up my crew members. When I went to pick up my one crew member I almost got stuck. As I got closer and closer the visibility was still getting worse and worse at one point you couldn’t see a foot in front of the vehicle. At this point I was quite shocked that the mall hadn’t closed since over half the town was shutting down. By about 10am they were advising no travel but my job was still deciding to open at noon. Long story short I was told I had to be to the mall by noon since the mall was going to be open. At 11:55 when the mall was supposed to be open in 5 minutes the mall manager decided to close the mall. This kind of decision should be one that is made before everyone is told to come to work. The places in the food court had prepared there food. Stores had there employees there, including me that were ready to work even though the weather was not very good and it was hard to get there. Moral of my story, its just crazy that malls stay open in bad conditions and its not very safe that they do that (especially since they were advising NO TRAVEL!). What are everyones thoughts on malls being open in bad weather?
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I can understand it from the point of view of the merchants (people won’t be at work or school and can’t do anything outside so they can come to the mall and spend money) but at the same time I think it is ridiculous that anything should be open in weather where there is no travel advised. The weather bureau and law enforcement agencies don’t generally put out these advisories just for fun and usually there are very good reasons for them. When this happens, people should be able to stay home curl up under a blanket with a cup of hot chocolate and a good book…and this is what they should do as well!
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I can see it from both points also but it still upsets me, haha!
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i really have no comments on this cause we dont have this bad weather you speak of. lol well we do get the occasional hurricane but the whole city shuts down for that, not just the mall. i avoid the mall like the plague. too many preteens and teenagers hang out there.
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I think I’d rather have the snowstorms than the hurricanes…the snow eventually melts and goes away. The damage done by the snowstorms seems to be a bit easier to recover from than the damage done from hurricanes.
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Yeah thats ok that you dont have snow storms allthough I love snow its hard for me to believe that you dont have that.