I realize that has good intentions, but it's actually terrible advice.

Delivery drivers are paid basically solely with your tips.

If you don't order, they don't make any money that day.

If you want to be nice, order that delivery, but tip more.

Bad weather is actually their favorite because people tip more.

There might be different ideas of what makes “bad” weather.

Some Californians think that any weather at all is bad, and some midwesterners think “there’s no such thing as bad weather, only wrong clothing”.

I wouldn’t hesitate to order delivery if it were raining or snowing, but maybe in this world there are people who would still order delivery during a tornado warning (because that way they don’t have to risk driving during a tornado).

The responsibility is not on you as a consumer.

If it's genuinely life-threatening out, an actual tornado warning, then nobody's delivering in the first place. You can't order delivery even if you want.

It's up to the business and driver (or mayor ordering all non-essential vehicles off the road). Not you.

> I was raised to consider ordering takeout in truly awful weather as pretty rude.

What’s more rude? Ordering takeout in bad weather, or not ordering takeout and indirectly punishing the delivery driver’s livelihood whenever the weather is bad..?