Posted on 01/28/2014 8:00:26 PM PST by Pan_Yan
Private schools also have these issues, as do parents who transport their children regardless of where the children attend school.
“Hubby would have walked ten miles to pick up our children in such a situation!”
Your husband is so well trained!
He is! He is wonderful! :)
I think he learned to walk in blizzards during his childhood. But floods, snow, whatever would not keep him from our children if he thought they needed him.
“Do their tires not have treads?”
Many, practically speaking, don’t. There is no requirement for car inspections (tread included), and conditions are rarely intolerant of bald tires, so many people let their tires wear down to darn near useless. Put that on ice and you get gridlock.
Sort of a LOL. Those of us who live in the land of Little House on the Prairie know all about this stuff and deal accordingly. -43 windchill this past morning = no school.
Hey...appreciate the thought though...thanks.
“More than 24 hours”? Hasn’t even been 12 hours since this mess started.
I learned to walk in blizzards and bad weather too; really makes you sturdy doesn’t it?
I don’t know what to think of this; snow in Georgia? I mean, the South is no stranger to low temps, but realistically this is something else.
It once took me 13 hours to get from Fredricksburgm VA to Annapolis MD in the snow. It would have taken longer, but we took the surface streets through the middle of DC and cut off 5 hours.
We are in south GA, and school for tomorrow was cancelled ahead of time. Coming from Germany, where we had several inches to feet of snow regularly, this seemed a little overcautious, but they are not used to black ice in this area. I totally get it. Hopefully, everyone at the schools in Atlanta will get home safely, even if that is in the morning. Prayers for al the families concerned.
Ice is a problem in the South. Throw in stupid government officials who did not make preparations by shutting everything down, and you have a mess.
Hubby suggests they get into a car with someone else if possible. If not, then run the car for 12 minutes each hour. That will heat up the car and keep them from freezing AND hopefully, they won’t run out of gas. What a nightmare. Prayers for your family!
It started snowing here in SE TN before the kids went to school
and keep snowing for hours way into the afternoon
I texted one of my grands about 11am thinking she was at home..
she said that they were still in school and going to be let out at 12.30AM
Mine live just a few blocks from school and get picked up by a family adult but I don’t know how the bus riders fared as the roads were thick with snow by that time..
when I saw that my drive way was covered and not likely to melt but could be frozen over by night, I took my car down by the street so I could get out if need be..
Its not snowing at present but right now 1AM Wednesday its colder here than it is in Atlanta ...
Praying for your wife and family!!
Thanks! Greatly appreciate it!
Thanks for the suggestions.
Yeah; notice how the government likes to control, but when it comes to being responsible, they avoid it like plague.
Knowing they weren’t prepared, I would have canceled school to. But when your main problem is ice it’s not hard to have city/county trucks that can also serve as salt or sand spreaders, for instance. We have them here. The same truck picks up my leaves in the fall, deposits sand/salt in the winter, picks up my brush in the spring and keeps up with general maintenance in the summer. Driving reminders are also important because sometimes going as slow as possible in snowy/icy conditions is not your best bet. Sometimes, if I don’t keep a steady 30-40mph highway the snow and ice tends to build up on the windshield, The extra speed helps blow it off and doesn’t substantially increase the chance of an accident, IMHO.
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