Comments on: Shut Down http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/01/04/shut-down/ I have no idea whether ''The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy'' is a good album, but I might have to buy it just on the basis of its awesome name Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:38:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Mark in Boston http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/01/04/shut-down/#comment-30777 Mark in Boston Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:36:07 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/01/04/shut-down/#comment-30777 nonegiven: I walked home from Cambridge to Boston during the 78 blizzard -- three miles. I had recently moved from Schenectady, New York where I routinely walked home through blizzards like that, at least five times per winter. In Schenectady they don't even reschedule golf tournaments for blizzards like that. nonegiven: I walked home from Cambridge to Boston during the 78 blizzard — three miles. I had recently moved from Schenectady, New York where I routinely walked home through blizzards like that, at least five times per winter.

In Schenectady they don’t even reschedule golf tournaments for blizzards like that.

]]> By: Keera http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/01/04/shut-down/#comment-30754 Keera Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:36:16 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/01/04/shut-down/#comment-30754 LOL, Sari! LOL, Sari!

]]> By: Elyrest http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/01/04/shut-down/#comment-30740 Elyrest Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:56:08 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/01/04/shut-down/#comment-30740 Sari Everna - There is the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, but you're right Siberian Invasion has a ring to it. http://www.trans-siberian.com/ Sari Everna - There is the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, but you’re right Siberian Invasion has a ring to it.

http://www.trans-siberian.com/

]]> By: Sari Everna http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/01/04/shut-down/#comment-30716 Sari Everna Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:41:29 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/01/04/shut-down/#comment-30716 Siberian invasion sounds like a great band name. :) Siberian invasion sounds like a great band name. :)

]]> By: RobynS8971 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/01/04/shut-down/#comment-30715 RobynS8971 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:29:34 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/01/04/shut-down/#comment-30715 I once tried the "roads are bad" excuse, but I happened to work to a road contractor and the big boss threatened to send a plow for me. Opted to put the VW Beetle in gear and made it just fine, can't beat a rear engine for traction! I once tried the “roads are bad” excuse, but I happened to work to a road contractor and the big boss threatened to send a plow for me. Opted to put the VW Beetle in gear and made it just fine, can’t beat a rear engine for traction!

]]> By: Keera http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/01/04/shut-down/#comment-30712 Keera Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:44:27 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/01/04/shut-down/#comment-30712 Here in Norway they never close anything for any reason, unless there is actual damage to the building or the road's out. To this day, I have no idea what a "snow day" is and right now, I'm writing surrounded by a foot of snow and in freezing -7C. (My neck of the woods has the same climate as Seattle, but continental Europe's having a Siberian invasion this winter.) Here in Norway they never close anything for any reason, unless there is actual damage to the building or the road’s out. To this day, I have no idea what a “snow day” is and right now, I’m writing surrounded by a foot of snow and in freezing -7C. (My neck of the woods has the same climate as Seattle, but continental Europe’s having a Siberian invasion this winter.)

]]> By: nonegiven http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/01/04/shut-down/#comment-30710 nonegiven Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:10:35 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/01/04/shut-down/#comment-30710 My son was in Cambridge during the 78 blizzard. He slept on the couch at work rather than try to walk the (normally) 10 minute walk home in waist deep snow. My son was in Cambridge during the 78 blizzard. He slept on the couch at work rather than try to walk the (normally) 10 minute walk home in waist deep snow.

]]> By: Nicole http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/01/04/shut-down/#comment-30695 Nicole Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:34:02 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/01/04/shut-down/#comment-30695 Years ago I worked for a company that did occasionally close for bad weather. In 1993 we had what was the worst winter in my memory. Frigid, frigid cold for weeks interspersed with snowstorms that would dump more than a foot of snow. Anyway my company had set up a weather hotline so you could call to see if they were open. It was yet another Nor'easter and the radio was predicting two feet of snow .. surely they would be closed ... nope. Not even a delayed opening. So I bundled myself up got in my car and drove two and a half hours to work (normally 45 minutes) . As I stood at my desk taking off my coat, the secretary was walking around telling everyone that the company was closing in a half hour........ After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I put my coat back on and left for my two and a half hour drive home. That's what I call planing Years ago I worked for a company that did occasionally close for bad weather. In 1993 we had what was the worst winter in my memory. Frigid, frigid cold for weeks interspersed with snowstorms that would dump more than a foot of snow. Anyway my company had set up a weather hotline so you could call to see if they were open. It was yet another Nor’easter and the radio was predicting two feet of snow .. surely they would be closed … nope. Not even a delayed opening. So I bundled myself up got in my car and drove two and a half hours to work (normally 45 minutes) . As I stood at my desk taking off my coat, the secretary was walking around telling everyone that the company was closing in a half hour…….. After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I put my coat back on and left for my two and a half hour drive home.

That’s what I call planing

]]> By: The Bad Seed http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/01/04/shut-down/#comment-30679 The Bad Seed Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:22:12 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/01/04/shut-down/#comment-30679 p.s. I lived in Knoxville 1991-1996, and I can vouch for the above comments about Tennessee drivers. I quickly learned that the best thing was to stay at work and let the panickers rush homeward at the sight of the first 2 flakes of snow, because they would all smash into each other. I'd wait until there was at least 4 inches of snow on the ground and everyone else was either already home, crashed, or spun out in a snowdrift along the highway, and I'd have a nice safe drive home. p.s. I lived in Knoxville 1991-1996, and I can vouch for the above comments about Tennessee drivers. I quickly learned that the best thing was to stay at work and let the panickers rush homeward at the sight of the first 2 flakes of snow, because they would all smash into each other. I’d wait until there was at least 4 inches of snow on the ground and everyone else was either already home, crashed, or spun out in a snowdrift along the highway, and I’d have a nice safe drive home.

]]> By: The Bad Seed http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/01/04/shut-down/#comment-30678 The Bad Seed Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:13:17 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2010/01/04/shut-down/#comment-30678 I assumed this strip meant to connote that more people had 4-wheel-drive and could get out, but in this day and age we definitely all should have less need to ever leave our homes. Our big pre-Christmas storm here in southeast PA didn't actually affect my life in any way, because I stocked up on easy food beforehand, then I logged in and worked from home, in addition to finishing my Christmas shopping from home. As long as I have electricity, I'm golden. By the way, when I worked retail (large dept store) for a couple of years in the 1980's, we were only completely closed one day because of winter weather (2 ft of snow with a couple of inches of ice underneath and also on top). Another evening I made it all the way to the store in a snow and ice storm for the 6-9:40 shift, then - still in my coat and gloves - immediately sought out my boss and told her that the traveling was already so bad that I was going to turn around and go home right then (because it was only going to freeze more and get worse). Man, if she hadn't been standing with HER boss when I told her that, I'm sure she would have decked me right then and there! I assumed this strip meant to connote that more people had 4-wheel-drive and could get out, but in this day and age we definitely all should have less need to ever leave our homes. Our big pre-Christmas storm here in southeast PA didn’t actually affect my life in any way, because I stocked up on easy food beforehand, then I logged in and worked from home, in addition to finishing my Christmas shopping from home. As long as I have electricity, I’m golden.

By the way, when I worked retail (large dept store) for a couple of years in the 1980’s, we were only completely closed one day because of winter weather (2 ft of snow with a couple of inches of ice underneath and also on top). Another evening I made it all the way to the store in a snow and ice storm for the 6-9:40 shift, then - still in my coat and gloves - immediately sought out my boss and told her that the traveling was already so bad that I was going to turn around and go home right then (because it was only going to freeze more and get worse). Man, if she hadn’t been standing with HER boss when I told her that, I’m sure she would have decked me right then and there!

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