Snowed in - good or good grief?

The meteorologists on TV were right this time – the storm that just hit Indiana was a big one. I heard “catastrophic” mentioned a few times before it hit. I wouldn’t go that far, but the fact that businesses shut down early and the Indiana appellate courts and General Assembly closed is telling.

I’ve worked for Indiana Lawyer for nearly five years and cannot remember the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, and Tax Court being closed because of the weather. Neither can my co-workers who have worked here for several more years before I started. Nor can we recall the General Assembly shutting down because of the weather in any recent years.

It’s been two days since the ice hit in central Indiana and many parking lots and side roads are still like ice rinks.

It takes a pretty significant storm to shut down businesses and government, but this one did it. Was your office or law firm closed because of the weather? Does your office have a plan in place for these types of weather issues? Are people going to be referring to the ice storm of 2011 the way some people recall the blizzard of ‘78?