Bad Weather and Remote Desktop

As I no longer have an office on campus, I have no need to use a remote desktop application.  But when I was in the College of Business, I did so fairly often and it worked reasonably well, for the most part.  I can only guess that current day clients are quite effective, irrespective of the platform.  (I was a Windows guy then.)  
It seems to me that (a) the university should encourage remote desktop function for much of the faculty and staff and (b) with that function in place most people should be encouraged to stay home on a day like today and work remotely. 
Back in spring 2011, we had such a bad weather day where classes were eventually cancelled.  Not knowing that ahead of time, I took the unilateral step of moving my face to face classes to online for that one day.  Once I learned that classes were officially cancelled, those online sessions became optional.