For many, prediction for another big Northeast winter storm doesn’t mean a snow day

For some in Northeast, a snow day isn’t an option

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Plenty of schools may be closed as the Northeast bunkers in for another big snowstorm. But a snow day isn’t an option for everyone.

In Allentown, Pa., 52-year-old Jim Yourgal walked 3 miles Thursday morning to his job as a valet at an orthopedic center. He was afraid he wouldn’t be able to drive home in there was a foot of snow this afternoon.

In Philadelphia, 39-year-old Denise Woodard caught an early morning subway train as she headed to her nursing assistant job in Norristown. Her three kids were staying with her mother because Woodard figured she might be stranded at work.

In New York, Alan SanFilippo, of Long Beach on Long Island, said he likes the snow. It means overtime shoveling the tracks at the Long Island Rail Road yard in Manhattan.