As a former RIT (rochester institute of Technology) student, I know the feeling. RIT has had 1 snow day in the last 10 years as well (I wonder if it was the same storm that SU got off for as well...would be funny). Western/Upstate NY snow blows away anything else on the East Coast. Yeah, there are Nor'Easters (which Western/Upstate NY gets too) that occasionally bury some of the Atlantic coast cities; but those are very rare, and the usual weather in those places is not snow every day...which it is in Western NY. Some places in Western NY get Nor'Easter type snow daily for weeks at a time (look up pictures of Oswego from last winter....they literally had 10 or more feet of snow on the ground!).

It would be nice if this storm were actually this bad as perhaps I would get off of work (not holding my breath)...trying to find information on it online. Anyone have a link on it? I'd like to read what the experts think of this storm (including the ones TheSource cited).

Didn't realize TheSource was close to me. I commute to PA every weekday from NJ. If it's bad enough, I'll be working from home early next week.

How about North East Ohio?

I hate how my school almost never has a snowday. One time earlier this year I believe my school and the schools in the city was one of the very few schools even open in my area. and we had like 6-9 inches of snow too and the roads were never ploughed. wtf!? 

Ya 6 inches is nothing. (But it really depends where you live) I drove home from work last week in a storm that dropped 6+ inches.  The best storm I have even been in dropped ~3ft of snow in a 36 hour period.  "The great Holloween blizzard"  I collected so much candy that night.

 All thou 3ft is alot for that short a time, if you go high enough in the mountains 10+ ft in less then a week can happen easily.

It really depends on what part of the country you are in.  Indianapolis is a very sprawled city.  You have to drive to get everywhere, and it takes a really long time to clean up the roads.  New York is cramped together and most people walk or take the subway so there is no reason to close stuff down.  

On the other hand, we do get snow every single year and it's not uncomon.  The problem is really just the way the city is designed.  We can get feet of snow and sub zero Farenheit temperatures in my state in the winter but in the summer we can get over 100 degrees Farenhite.  We also get massive tornadoes, huge pooring rains, up to 45 MPH winds, flooding, and small earthquakes in the southern part of Indiana.  Honestly my state is a disaster zone.  2 years ago we had baseball sized hail fall for over an hour, destroying thousands of cars and damaging almost every building in the city.  

Ugh, I thought the icestorm we are supposed to get tonight was lame. I probably have to work on the 17th too :( Driving is going to be great I'm sure.