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Those in snowstorm/no electricity, check in PLEASE!!!
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 10359" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Dreamer - I work for the state in a prison and have plenty of leave time I can use so I just call and tell them not to bother looking for me. They leave it up to our judgement on whether we can make it in or not. The back country roads don't scare me as much as the little 5-mile stretch of the interstate that I have to get down, with the big semis flying by. Our security people though, the ones who work in the housing units where the inmates live, will be held over if the next shift cannot get in. There's been times that some of them were there for three days without going home. We're out in the country and some of those hills are just impossible to get up or down without sliding off into a ditch or down in a gully.</p><p></p><p>Before she went to nursing school, my daughter worked as a CNA in a nursing home and they were the same way. We lived way out in the country then. Fortunately the nursing home administrator was one of our neighbors and he had a huge 4-wheel drive truck that could get through almost anything and he would pick my daughter up and take her to work. I always worried but they always made it in safely. Right by our house was some huge hills and sharp curves and those shady spots stayed slick with ice long after it had melted off everywhere else. Every winter there was so many wrecks right by my house, I kept the Sheriffs office and wrecker service numbers on my speed dial! On that road, if you slide one way you plow into a rock wall that is the side of a huge hill a few feet off the road. If you slide the other way, you find yourself plunging down into a steep gully, unless you hit a convenient tree on the your way down and that generally stops you! No thank you, I'll be home on the couch!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 10359, member: 1883"] Dreamer - I work for the state in a prison and have plenty of leave time I can use so I just call and tell them not to bother looking for me. They leave it up to our judgement on whether we can make it in or not. The back country roads don't scare me as much as the little 5-mile stretch of the interstate that I have to get down, with the big semis flying by. Our security people though, the ones who work in the housing units where the inmates live, will be held over if the next shift cannot get in. There's been times that some of them were there for three days without going home. We're out in the country and some of those hills are just impossible to get up or down without sliding off into a ditch or down in a gully. Before she went to nursing school, my daughter worked as a CNA in a nursing home and they were the same way. We lived way out in the country then. Fortunately the nursing home administrator was one of our neighbors and he had a huge 4-wheel drive truck that could get through almost anything and he would pick my daughter up and take her to work. I always worried but they always made it in safely. Right by our house was some huge hills and sharp curves and those shady spots stayed slick with ice long after it had melted off everywhere else. Every winter there was so many wrecks right by my house, I kept the Sheriffs office and wrecker service numbers on my speed dial! On that road, if you slide one way you plow into a rock wall that is the side of a huge hill a few feet off the road. If you slide the other way, you find yourself plunging down into a steep gully, unless you hit a convenient tree on the your way down and that generally stops you! No thank you, I'll be home on the couch! [/QUOTE]
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