Bomb Cyclone Bolts Toward Upper Midwest After Blasting Colorado

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weat...sting-colorado-plains/?utm_term=.adf6d89fb8cf

I live in Colorado and lived through this nonsense. I usually am for hands off approach when it comes to the government, except when it comes to endangering lives of people. Not saying the feds should get involved, but Colorado should definitely consider a law requiring businesses(all business, except hospitals and emergency centers) to close during an event like this...not just snow, but a blizzard yes.
A state trooper was killed yesterday trying to help a stranded motorist, while he was aiding the motorist another car lost control and hit him, killing him.
I-25 is so mired up by stranded cars it is still closed this morning.

Our job told us to come in and then if it got bad we could go home, that it wasn't considered an emergency weather event, because it started with just rain....by 2pm it was god awful....there were 97mph winds, white out conditions and cars stranded everywhere(because they were just trying to get home) I left at 2pm, because they were closing the street I live on. My supervisor wasn't happy about it, but I told her, I don't intend to spend the night at my job, so I need to go...also, more than 70% of the employees were right behind me...I hope they all made it home. I called my husband to come get me in a car adequate for snow and left my Prius sitting in the parking lot...it has the HUM device, so I called a wrecker, but the wait was hours long, so I just called him instead.

Anyhow, the law should require businesses close during a major event, the only exception should be military and emergency services. I don't care if it is a gas station...even Walmart decided to close yesterday, because yes, it was that bad...however, one Walmart, even closed allowed people in that were stuck and they were allowed to stay, even if it was all night...Walmart in Monument, asked their employees to stay and not risk their lives if they did not have a safe way home....they shouldn't have been there in the first place. We had major electric outages and thousands of cars stranded, so bad that it has impeded plows getting through.

Blizzards are no joke! I remember a blizzard so bad when I lived in New Hampshire that they banned non essential vehicles from driving and declared a state of emergency so companies had to close.

Higgins86 said:

Blizzards are no joke! I remember a blizzard so bad when I lived in New Hampshire that they banned non essential vehicles from driving and declared a state of emergency so companies had to close.

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They declared a state of emergency here, but it was after most people were already at work. They closed several roads and so far there have been 2 deaths....one a police officer and another a man who died from hypothermia while trying to start a generator.

I agree that sometimes the government needs to intervene. You will rarely find businesses to take a pro-active approach. I remember when I lived in Texas, we had had downpours for days, and the Guadalupe river was almost above it's banks. It was cresting that day, and the downpours were continuing. I was terrified I wasn't going to make it home, and my boss wouldn't let me leave, despite the fact that massive flooding was expected - directly down my path home.