Just Simply Holly

As you may or may not know, we got a pretty good snow/ice storm over the weekend, specifically Saturday night into Sunday.   We ended up with an average of about 8 inches of snow in the area.  But the worst part is that there is ice under the snow.  My husband drives major expressways to work, he just called saying all of the main roads are still in horrible condition.  The local news is also all over the area stressing how bad the roads are, how there is a layer of ice under the snow and even some areas with black ice.

By dinner time last night a huge amount of schools had already delayed for today, some of them had even closed.  My daughters school was one that had delayed early last night, but my sons school hadn’t.  In all honesty I was sure my sons school would at least delay today, but amazingly they are the ONLY school in the area that never did this morning.  The worst part of it is the fact that a huge chunk of the students are walkers, meaning that they walk to and from school, and the residents in town are infamous for not clearing their side walks.  With as bad as these roads are and as crappy as the weather is right now, I made the executive decision that my son is not going to school today.  I am not going to put him on a school bus that has NO reason to be on the roads!  The roads are not even close to being cleared, and ODOT representative said they are “hoping” to have the roads cleaned by the rush our drive home TONIGHT!  I’ll never understand his school, not in a heart beat!