First week of Jan!

[byjove]

Hoping this week is slow. I'm not ready for January.

Spending most of week following weather blogs for possible snow this weekend...

[dc2london]

Jan 2, 2024 9:11:53 GMT -6 byjove said:

Hoping this week is slow. I'm not ready for January.

Spending most of week following weather blogs for possible snow this weekend...

I think our area will be spared (🤞) but north and west will see some snow

[byjove]

Jan 2, 2024 9:28:41 GMT -6 dc2london said:

Jan 2, 2024 9:11:53 GMT -6 byjove said:

Hoping this week is slow. I'm not ready for January.

Spending most of week following weather blogs for possible snow this weekend...

I think our area will be spared (🤞) but north and west will see some snow

What with that FX! No fingers crossed for being spared FX for SNOWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[dc2london]

Jan 2, 2024 9:32:27 GMT -6 byjove said:

Jan 2, 2024 9:28:41 GMT -6 dc2london said:

I think our area will be spared (🤞) but north and west will see some snow

What with that FX! No fingers crossed for being spared FX for SNOWWWWWWWWWWWWW

I have my first haurcut in six months scheduled for Saturday.
It can snow Monday. 😘

[byjove]

Jan 2, 2024 9:33:23 GMT -6 dc2london said:

Jan 2, 2024 9:32:27 GMT -6 byjove said:

What with that FX! No fingers crossed for being spared FX for SNOWWWWWWWWWWWWW

I have my first haurcut in six months scheduled for Saturday.
It can snow Monday. 😘

Ok, I'll put in a request it starts as soon as the blow dry begins on Saturday.

[byjove]

[cnf]

Jan 2, 2024 9:35:35 GMT -6 byjove said:

Jan 2, 2024 9:33:23 GMT -6 dc2london said:

I have my first haurcut in six months scheduled for Saturday.
It can snow Monday. 😘

Ok, I'll put in a request it starts as soon as the blow dry begins on Saturday.

I'll take it! We're like 2 feet below average right now and it's bumming me out. I love the snow. We're only going to get a few inches this weekend.

[geekygirly]

Our area was showing an inch of snow this weekend as of yesterday, but now it is showing rain instead *sigh* We are going on 2 years without an inch of snow.

[cnf]

Jan 2, 2024 11:21:18 GMT -6 cnf said:

Jan 2, 2024 9:35:35 GMT -6 byjove said:

Ok, I'll put in a request it starts as soon as the blow dry begins on Saturday.

I'll take it! We're like 2 feet below average right now and it's bumming me out. I love the snow. We're only going to get a few inches this weekend.

Quoting myself because tonight on the local weather they mentioned our average for now is 32" but we're at a sad 8" for the year.

DD1 got a snowboard for Christmas that she's dying to use. I hesitate to pay to bring her to a mountain just yet, but if we don't get some snow I'm going to have to suck it up and go. I mean, I love it, I haven't gone in like a decade, but still.

[klw]

We could get snow or rain this weekend. We always seem to be right in the line and end up with rain. I’m crossing my fingers for snow though. We didn’t get any last year and of course the girls got sled for Christmas.

[byjove]

dc2london, looks like you got your rain wish!

[dc2london]

Jan 5, 2024 13:09:18 GMT -6 byjove said:

dc2london, looks like you got your rain wish!

Aww I'm sorry. But it's only January 5! There is still time for snow!

[dc2london]

If it's going to snow, do it on a Friday and give the kids a long weekend 🤪

[elle]

Jan 5, 2024 13:13:40 GMT -6 dc2london said:

If it's going to snow, do it on a Friday and give the kids a long weekend 🤪

They're saying we'll be getting anywhere from 4-12" Saturday afternoon through early Monday morning. Is it wrong that I'm sort of hoping for a snow day?

[athn64]

We're supposed to get a major winter storm next week. Like from Tuesday through Friday. I'm kind of dreading the kids being stuck at home, because I suck with the at home learning stuff and I need my kidless downtime.

[fatpony]

When true life and fiction collide. Love President Bartlett and Josh Lyman. Although it might have been more appropriate for Allison Janney to share this...

[elle]

Jan 5, 2024 13:21:29 GMT -6 athn64 said:

We're supposed to get a major winter storm next week. Like from Tuesday through Friday. I'm kind of dreading the kids being stuck at home, because I suck with the at home learning stuff and I need my kidless downtime.

A week is too much for sure. Especially right after winter break. I'm just hoping for a day to make a nice long weekend.

[kbw]

We could get a foot of snow between tomorrow afternoon and Sunday afternoon. Tuesday it’s supposed to be 50 and pouring rain with high winds.

[mrsweasley]

Jan 5, 2024 13:21:29 GMT -6 athn64 said:

We're supposed to get a major winter storm next week. Like from Tuesday through Friday. I'm kind of dreading the kids being stuck at home, because I suck with the at home learning stuff and I need my kidless downtime.

All the things crossed for you that the weather isn't awful

When I was in middle school we had a huge storm right after winter break and missed at least 4 days. Obviously pre e-learning days and we had to go on a Sat in the Spring because we missed too many days and I guess that was how they worked it out with the teacher's union. I remember being so mad at my mom for making us go on a Sat because so many kid's parents called them out. They started building in potential makeup days to the calendar after that

[cnf]

Jan 5, 2024 21:39:32 GMT -6 kbw said:

We could get a foot of snow between tomorrow afternoon and Sunday afternoon. Tuesday it’s supposed to be 50 and pouring rain with high winds.

I'll take your foot up here. We're supposed to get like 2-4" from the storm then another 3-6" off the lake, but I'd love a good foot plus dump. Sunday night though please. Gimme that snow day.

We're getting the rain Tuesday too. Gross.

[senneth]

Disability advocacy: I don’t usually post here, but a friend recently had a near miss, and I think it’s worth mentioning.

If you work in a building with more than one story, please look on the evacuation map to see if there is an area of refuge included. While there are best practices to actually make that area fire resistant, they’re expensive and unlikely to be implemented. But the cost of designating an area of refuge for people who can’t use stairs during an evacuation is minimal.

An area of refuge is a designated location for mobility impaired people to rally during an evacuation so that management, fire crews, and first responders know where the disabled person/people should be. It’s the difference between firefighters knowing exactly where to go to rescue a disabled person vs having no idea. Most buildings designate their stairwell as the area of refuge, but not all of them.

If there isn’t a designated place for disabled people to rally and mentioning it wouldn’t risk your job, the next time you have an evacuation drill ask the coordinators what you should do if you have a visitor who can’t use the stairs to evacuate. Your priority is to get yourself out, but where do you tell them to go?

[cnf]

Jan 7, 2024 0:43:54 GMT -6 senneth said:

Disability advocacy: I don’t usually post here, but a friend recently had a near miss, and I think it’s worth mentioning.

If you work in a building with more than one story, please look on the evacuation map to see if there is an area of refuge included. While there are best practices to actually make that area fire resistant, they’re expensive and unlikely to be implemented. But the cost of designating an area of refuge for people who can’t use stairs during an evacuation is minimal.

An area of refuge is a designated location for mobility impaired people to rally during an evacuation so that management, fire crews, and first responders know where the disabled person/people should be. It’s the difference between firefighters knowing exactly where to go to rescue a disabled person vs having no idea. Most buildings designate their stairwell as the area of refuge, but not all of them.

If there isn’t a designated place for disabled people to rally and mentioning it wouldn’t risk your job, the next time you have an evacuation drill ask the coordinators what you should do if you have a visitor who can’t use the stairs to evacuate. Your priority is to get yourself out, but where do you tell them to go?

This is good to know, I had no idea, but it makes complete sense.

I know my school definitely does not have a designated area. We have two stories and a few years ago we had a kid with a walker and the SPED room he was in was on the second floor. They timed fire drills with when he was downstairs, which is so ridiculous. I asked about it one day since I had this kid in class and security told me their plan was to just carry him down the stairs since it's only one floor.

And this year we had a kid on crutches during a drill and he was told he could just stay in but look out the window to be accounted for. No surprise when every kid outside was like "why is Soandso still in the building and just staring at us out that window?" GREAT QUESTION, CHILDREN.

Last year we had a kid pull a fire alarm and we were stuck outside for a good 30+ minutes while the FD swept the building. No clue if we had any kids with disabilities to worry about then. Curious.

I have always been very head scratch about it all. I'm shocked they can pass codes this way. And as far as school buildings go, it was built in 2003 so it's still basically new. There's no excuse to not have a been plan for this.

[senneth]

cnf Disappointed but not surprised that your school didn’t test their plan.

So, child with the walker: Security carrying the child down the stairs is the normal plan. During a drill, security shouldn’t have actually carried him down the stairs because it risks injuries. But instead of only doing a drill when the child was on the first floor, they should have tested with him upstairs to ensure that:
1) The child knew where to go and STAY until security got there
2) The teacher knew where the child was supposed to be
3) Security knew where the child was supposed to be
4) Security successfully met the child where the child was supposed to be
5) Person doing accounting remembered to verify that security got that kid out, and if they didn’t, to alert emergency responders

The kid on crutches… honestly, in an actual emergency, I think odds are good a relatively healthy kid on crutches could get down a flight of stairs (even if you’re only on them six weeks, you usually end up crawling up or down a flight of stairs at least once). The problem is that that slows down evacuation for everyone else.

The only place I go that consistently has those areas designated is hotels.

[athn64]

Jan 7, 2024 5:16:57 GMT -6 cnf said:

Jan 7, 2024 0:43:54 GMT -6 senneth said:

Disability advocacy: I don’t usually post here, but a friend recently had a near miss, and I think it’s worth mentioning.

If you work in a building with more than one story, please look on the evacuation map to see if there is an area of refuge included. While there are best practices to actually make that area fire resistant, they’re expensive and unlikely to be implemented. But the cost of designating an area of refuge for people who can’t use stairs during an evacuation is minimal.

An area of refuge is a designated location for mobility impaired people to rally during an evacuation so that management, fire crews, and first responders know where the disabled person/people should be. It’s the difference between firefighters knowing exactly where to go to rescue a disabled person vs having no idea. Most buildings designate their stairwell as the area of refuge, but not all of them.

If there isn’t a designated place for disabled people to rally and mentioning it wouldn’t risk your job, the next time you have an evacuation drill ask the coordinators what you should do if you have a visitor who can’t use the stairs to evacuate. Your priority is to get yourself out, but where do you tell them to go?

This is good to know, I had no idea, but it makes complete sense.

I know my school definitely does not have a designated area. We have two stories and a few years ago we had a kid with a walker and the SPED room he was in was on the second floor. They timed fire drills with when he was downstairs, which is so ridiculous. I asked about it one day since I had this kid in class and security told me their plan was to just carry him down the stairs since it's only one floor.

And this year we had a kid on crutches during a drill and he was told he could just stay in but look out the window to be accounted for. No surprise when every kid outside was like "why is Soandso still in the building and just staring at us out that window?" GREAT QUESTION, CHILDREN.

Last year we had a kid pull a fire alarm and we were stuck outside for a good 30+ minutes while the FD swept the building. No clue if we had any kids with disabilities to worry about then. Curious.

I have always been very head scratch about it all. I'm shocked they can pass codes this way. And as far as school buildings go, it was built in 2003 so it's still basically new. There's no excuse to not have a been plan for this.

In high school, I was on crutches during a fire drill and basically got pushed down the stairs by the crowd of students. Of course that was over 20 years ago so hopefully things have improved.

[senneth]

Jan 7, 2024 11:01:19 GMT -6 athn64 said:

Jan 7, 2024 5:16:57 GMT -6 cnf said:

This is good to know, I had no idea, but it makes complete sense.

I know my school definitely does not have a designated area. We have two stories and a few years ago we had a kid with a walker and the SPED room he was in was on the second floor. They timed fire drills with when he was downstairs, which is so ridiculous. I asked about it one day since I had this kid in class and security told me their plan was to just carry him down the stairs since it's only one floor.

And this year we had a kid on crutches during a drill and he was told he could just stay in but look out the window to be accounted for. No surprise when every kid outside was like "why is Soandso still in the building and just staring at us out that window?" GREAT QUESTION, CHILDREN.

Last year we had a kid pull a fire alarm and we were stuck outside for a good 30+ minutes while the FD swept the building. No clue if we had any kids with disabilities to worry about then. Curious.

I have always been very head scratch about it all. I'm shocked they can pass codes this way. And as far as school buildings go, it was built in 2003 so it's still basically new. There's no excuse to not have a been plan for this.

In high school, I was on crutches during a fire drill and basically got pushed down the stairs by the crowd of students. Of course that was over 20 years ago so hopefully things have improved.

They haven’t improved in adult spaces - so I have doubts it has improved in schools. I’ve been pushed on stairs by people who were just in a hurry to take their lunch break.

I’m a permanent crutch user, and I can go up and down a couple flights of stairs with no problems. But in an emergency situation, in addition to me slowing the evacuation down, it just isn’t safe for me to be on the stairs until everyone is out.

[dc2london]

In my county the schools have a designated space for folks who can't evacuate to go and there is a huge ♿️ on the side of the building by that space's window so first responders can find them.

Thank you senneth for encouraging ys to advocate for this; It should be law.

[dc2london]

Budget deal?
Someone get the lettuce

www.politico.com/news/2024/01/07/congress-spending-deal-shutdown-00134200

[downwarddog]

Jan 7, 2024 15:05:05 GMT -6 dc2london said:

Budget deal?
Someone get the lettuce

www.politico.com/news/2024/01/07/congress-spending-deal-shutdown-00134200

'Someone get the lettuce' made me legit chuckle.