What a Mess!

So we get out of school when it is sunny and in the single digits. But we don't cancel school when there is a winter weather advisory and snow showing up on the radar. We started dismissing at 11:00. Mr. C's school called and said the buses would not be running because the weather was too treacherous, so parents were to come pick them up ASAP. Luckily he got a ride home with someone with a four wheel drive.

My school insisted buses were coming. By 2:45 one bus had shown up, but most students had been picked up by parents. There were only 40-50 students left in the school. The principal said teachers could leave. While still on my way home, at 4:35, I got a robocall from my school saying the buses could not get through and parents needed to try to get to school to pick up their children. I don't know how that finally turned out. I only had two children from my class there when I left. But I feel bad that I left and they may still be there.

There were so many accidents on the way home. I changed directions several times and went miles out of my way to get home. M, you will recognize the above location of the duPont exit onto Amnicola. I got up past the barrier and then crossed the median to head back up duPont to Access Rd (accident in the roundabout) and onto 153 to cross the dam. Whew!

The main road to our house was backed up past the interstate (about 8 miles from home) so I got on the interstate, traveled down to the first exit in Georgia and tried to get home on the backroads, though the Georgian countryside. Accidents blocked the roads I knew, so I called Hubby at work and he navigated me over the phone. I was close to tears at one point, but pulled myself together.

I made it all the way to our subdivision and parked at the entrance with about 20 other residents. You can see what happened to the people who tried to drive all the way home. I had about a quarter mile hike, uphill from this point.

The news is reporting over 300 accidents in Chattanooga alone. No school tomorrow. Although after more than 2 hours on the road to get home tonight, I had already planned on not going anyway.

***Update: I heard through facebook that the last 4 students at my school were picked up by a bus at 6:15pm. Yay!