Posted on 01/28/2014 8:00:26 PM PST by Pan_Yan
Slippery, snowy roads left students stranded in school late Tuesday night as parents waded through paralyzing traffic and buses struggled to arrive, hours after school was dismissed early.
Some schools and their employees braced for the possibility that students might have to sleep at school overnight if no one could reach them on slick roads.
“We definitely might be pulling an all-nighter here,” said Thomas Algarin, spokesman for Marietta City Schools.
“We have been trying to transport students all afternoon, into evening and up to about 30 minutes ago, Cobb school spokesman Jay Dillon said in an e-mail send to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution at 9:36 p.m. Tuesday. “At this point, the roads have deteriorated to the point that there is no use in further attempting to deliver students home. All buses have either returned their remaining students to school, or will be there shortly. That’s only a relative handful of buses. We dismissed two hours early and were able to safely transport the vast majority of elementary students, and most high school students.
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At North Atlanta High School, students were still waiting for buses at nearly 10 p.m., according to Atlanta schools spokeswoman Kimberly Willis Green. According to the school district’s Twitter feed, food was on the way. Frustrated parents said school officials had been promising to feed students for hours.
Roads were in such bad shape that Marietta City Schools and Cherokee and Bartow counties north of Kennesaw suspended school bus service, asking students to remain at school until parents could pick them up.
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If only we could have swapped places ...
Channel 2 was saying the “models” on this storm were constantly changing. Heck, they changed forecasts three times in the span of 18 hours.
People weren’t paying attention.
And now guvment is trying to explain how well they’ve done.
YOU HaVE TO RESPONSIBLE FOR YOURSELF!
The folks in Atlanta are starting to sound as dumb as the folks stranded in NO after Katrina. Why did they even put those kids on the bus for school? They knew they were not equipped to handle it. They had ample warnings for more than a week.
They were warned. I was at work checking the forcast every 20 minutes. I started suggesting to people that they leave before 10 am, several hours before traffic became a nightmare. Unfortunately my job required me to stay after most people had left.
My wife, her 85 year old mom, and my brother in law with brain cancer, after 9+ hours, have pulled off to side near West Pace Ferry on I 75 northbound. Gas light on. No heat on. As of 11:36PM.
No movement on road for hours. Any one have a gas can nearby???
A large chunk of NO moved to ATL after Katrina. Heck the next year Atlanta was plastered with "Reelect Ray Nagan" billboards for those still registered to vote in Louisiana.
Tell them to be careful the exhaust pipe doesn’t get buried in snow. A friend of mine lost both her parents that way.
Don’t know the area at all, brother but are they nearby any homes? Might just want to knock and ask for help.
That one cold night ahead of them in that car.
And the other poster is right - keep all that snow away from the pipe.
I just went through a friend’s weather warnings for the last two days. They were warned. And officials knew before schools started that snow would hit before noon. But they did not make the crucial call to cancel.
If I had a child stuck at a school tonight, I would be sooooo angry. But I wouldn’t have sent my children. Or I would have picked them up at first flake in Birmingham. LOL. Hubby would have walked ten miles to pick up our children in such a situation!
if its anything like DFW ice rain it is almost a death wish to try and drive. you can be a Quebecker and still get it from some yahoo driving with no tread tires.
They are on the highway, on shoulder. Mom, 85, can’t move. They called police, said it would “hours, not 2-3 hours, but hours” before they could get them help. They are about a mile from exit, but nothing is moving.
No, I saw the warnings from the N.W.S. and they WERE IN ALL CAPS, SO YOU KNEW THEY WERE SERIES.
Meanwhile, my brother’s school district got 58 inches of snow in a 3 day period and the average temperature was below zero. School was never closed.
We got about 3 feet in the same time period with similar tempts and had one day with a two hour delay.
Not to down play people getting hurt or stuck in places, but even in Atlanta shouldn’t you be prepared for bad weather?
The board of education doesn’t follow weather reports???
Here they make the decision as early as 4am to close schools.
Why would they waste a ton of money on equipment and supplies that would be used once a year if that? Better to cancel school and to have make up days later on.
Lower the air pressure in your tires to about 20 lbs for traction on ice.
Ping for preppers
Sorry, bud. If I lived near there I’d hump a can out to them.
Closest person I know to there lives all the way in Hiawassee.
They don't know how to drive on ice and snow.
You can bet when their tires started spinning they mashed the gas peddle even more.
Is Atlanta and surrounding areas school districts run by Democrats??????????
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