Plainview; Exercise Available Right on Your Own Sidewalk

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Not All Jobs Get a Snow Day":

I work in Manhattan all day until 7pm and I still managed to shovel - i shoveled, my wife and kids helped, etc. I think alot of people don't shovel in Plainview because they can't be bothered. If your neighbor is elderly then you should help that neighbor out and shovel their sidewalk. Shoveling is good exercise. No one should be forced to walk out in the middle of the street because the sidewalk wasn't shoveled.

Not All Jobs Get a Snow Day

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "How Come?":

The other half were in Manhattan working because they can not afford to take off. There school tax bill is due in May. Remember some of us do not get off at 3:30 .Our jobs were also were not shut down.

Needed Now-----Community Spirit!

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "How Come?":

I think we have a lot of elderly residents. I think its nearly impossible for them to shovel driveways...let alone sidewalks. The cost for my driveway to be shoveled was A LOT OF MONEY and I couldn't do the sidewalk. When my kids were younger, I sent them to a neighbor to help shovel their driveway and sidewalks when weather was bad. We need some more community spirit in that area...in my opinion!

How Come?

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Dear Mr. Dempsey. What are You Saving the Snow Day...":

how come only half of plainview shovels their sidewalks?

Ed's note: I donno.

Dear Mr. Dempsey. What are You Saving the Snow Days For?

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Snow on Da Ground, Snow on Da Ground":

Dear Mr. Dempsey,

As a district parent I am used to unusual decisions regarding education (Investigations math, Stratford not purchasing ELA review books) but I have to say that the decision to have a delayed opening after the severe weather we had is just plain wrong.

Let's do the math. The school day is 6 hours long. Take 90 minutes off that right off the bat. We're down to 4.5 hours.
Will the buses get the kids to school on time? Let's take off a half hour for late buses, kids changing out of snow boots, snow pants.
We're at 4 hours.
Take out for lunch and rec.
We're down to about 3 hours of potential instructional time.
But not really since the elementary dismissal process begins well before 3:15 with some walkers getting out as early as 3:05 (Stratford) so let's take off another 20 minutes so with rounding we have about 2.5 hours of potential instruction time with a delayed opening of 90 minutes.

I'm unsure why we would opt to send kids to school for less than half a day's instructional benefit when we have snow days figured in the school calendar. Kids can go to school on those days for the full 6 hours and receive maximum instruction time.

I don't know about anyone else's part of Plainview-Old Bethpage but my house got a lot of snow. I shoveled twice during the day over an hour each time (at least 4-5 inches each time) and took another two hours to complete the job after the evening brought at least another 8-10 inches. I'm not done since when the plow makes it way down my block I will again have to clean the apron of my driveway. I estimate that to take at least 45 minutes.

Just cleaning my car off created about 4 inches of snow surrounding it. Tonight's snow was so dense it broke my new telescoping car snow cleaning device.

So far I haven't see anyone shoveling their sidewalks. There's barely any place to put the snow to dig out the cars in our driveways. I have drifts well over 3 feet on both sides of my driveway.

Kids are going to have to walk in the streets and wait in the streets for buses. It's very unsafe.

Every bordering school district made the decision to close their schools tomorrow.

It's not too late to get the phone link and email alerts going and close the schools.