Anticipating a "Snow Day"

Everyone has been talking about this impending storm since Monday.  The teacher's at work were so happy and the student's have been hoping and praying for our first "snow day" of the season.  Unfortunately, since we live in the Bronx we have to wait and pray for our wonderful Mayor Bloomy to declare a snow day while many schools in Westchestr County, Rockland County and Long Island have already declared it a snow day and are closing their schools.  What I never understood is why is it so easy for other school districts to close but yet in NYC where we have the largest amount of children and staff attending and working in our schools, the city always seems to drag their feet in giving us a snow day.  I feel it's better to keep people off the roads and safe in their homes as opposed to risking one's life to go to work and school in a foot of snow trying to walk and drive in hazardous conditions.  The way I see it if there are less people on the road it will provide ample time for the plow crews to hit the roads and clean up the mess more quickly.  Only time will tell....