Another idea was renewing Mr. Bah's canceled work permit in hopes of tapping into Medicaid or disability benefits.
And many others got early morning phone calls canceling work or other obligations, leaving them to contemplate the snowflakes.
"This was very bad timing," said Karen Miles, who said she had to cancel work meetings on Monday to juggle her daughters.
An Upper West Side caterer canceled work and dressed in long sleeves and pants during July's hottest days so no one would see her bites.
The labor minister, Ahmed al Amawi, canceled work permits for foreign belly dancers working in Egypt, according to the state-run newspaper Al Gumhoria, which described the decision as "belated".
Mr. Christie's big move — the one that will define his record — was his unilateral decision back in 2010 to cancel work that was already under way on a new rail tunnel linking New Jersey with New York.
Yet even if Trident were cancelled, work on decommissioning radioactive facilities would last into the 2040s, and perhaps beyond, and the AWE's expertise in future disarmament measures would still be needed.
"How can children learn like this?" The school's librarian, Cara Clarke, said she was embarrassed to have voted for a party – the Tories – that cancelled work to a school that has "smelly damp carpets from roofs that leak".
The City Department of Buildings, fearing accidents at high-rise projects that are under way at a record pace across the city, issued a warning to builders and contractors early in the day, instructing them to secure construction materials and tools or cancel work until the winds subsided.
It found similar agreements with Internet providers like America Online had also violated Section 2. And the court concluded that Microsoft had violated Section 2 by threatening Apple Computer that it would cancel work on a suite of Office applications for Apple's own operating system unless Apple made greater use of the Microsoft browser.
