Snow Day

Today is a Snow day in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area). I'm sure most of you are aware of the concept. Lots of snow therefore schools are closed. Well, schools are open but buses are not working so many kids stay home for the day. Which is something like what we are faced with in the business world these day. We may not be able to get into the office but we can work from home.
What would it take to have a Snow day for grown ups?
Maybe a power outage like back in 2003.


On a similar topic. For a country that gets lots of snow we seem to have a hard time dealing with the white stuff. I think part of it is due to policies put in place. For example, plows don't go out until 4cms are on the ground. In theory this sounds good but if you know the snow is coming and it will be heavy and as rush hour approaches and there is 3cm on the ground maybe it would be a good idea to get the plows out. So what I am suggesting is that a policy is good but sometimes things aren't a 1 or a 0, there are some shades of gray in there. Human interaction (humans saved day for NYSE) is necessary or the policy/program needs to have some items such as this built in to it to accomodate. I find the government is first to follow a rule to the letter.
Here's a great spoof on Toronto's handling of snow.