Not because it might.

There'd by several inches down already and it was still undecided whether you'd get to stay home.

It took a lot of snow for them to cancel school, back when people weren't pathologically afraid of even a little snow.

Things are different now. It's not just that schools shut down because it might snow. Much of everything else shuts down when it actually does snow. It doesn't take much, either. Just that it's snowing.

We got maybe three inches today – on the grass – and since I'm a Gen X guy who learned how to drive when the roads were covered by several more than three inches of snow, driving a rear-drive car without even a limited slip differential (let alone any "advanced driver assistance technology") I decided to drive downtown to hit the gym and run some other errands.

Because why wouldn't I?

Whey wouldn't anybody? I's just a little snow and very little of it is actually on the road.

Well, as it turned out, I shouldn't have ventured out. Not because of the snow. But because apparently no one else – just about – can deal with snow anymore. I got to my gym, without any slipping or sliding – to find an empty parking lot and locked doors. It was closed. Because people – the owners, I suppose – were afraid to open the joint up. Or perhaps the employees were too afraid to show up for work.

It was the same at the bank. It, too, was closed for business. Same issues, it seems. Probably, the owners decided to do what so many business owners did during the mass-panic event some people still insist upon calling "the pandemic" and pretend there was a reason to panic. More finely, they deferred to the panic of nervous ninnies who have a nervous breakdown when they feel "unsafe." People who runs gyms and banks and so on are probably afraid of these panicked people. Afraid they might get sued by them if they expect them to show up for work in "dangerous" conditions.