Snowjam on Tell Me Tuesday

Jan 29, 2014 | family | 0 comments

Yes Tuesday January 28, 2014 needs to be forever called SNOWJAM here in the metro Atlanta area.  I’m not sure yet what they are naming this storm or weather event but we definitely had a snow-jam yesterday and it is continuing today.  Where we live the weather predictions were for a “trace” of snow occurring in the afternoon with greater amounts of snow occurring south of Atlanta.  I kept hearing 1pm was when we would start seeing snow flurries.  But that is not what happened here!

Greg went to work, Ryan went to school and Tyler was planning to head to school.  I get made fun of because I keep close tabs on the weather situations that might arise – normally its tornadoes and such not snow most of the time.  In the morning I got an email that school would be closing 2 hours early – for Ryan that would be around 1 – that sounded good because so far our weather was fine.  Greg says I make stories too long so let’s just say the weather quickly turned for worse.  Ryan’s principal decided the driving students could leave at 11:45 and the buses would go as soon after.  I called Greg and told him that he needed to start coming home – he left about noon – and with no traffic it would be a 30-40 min drive.  Tyler’s class was cancelled and then the campus closed at 1 – so he actually never left.  I waited patiently for Ryan to get home – he finally arrived – with a friend (although I didn’t realize he had a friend for the first 30 minutes they were home – oops).  Kyle was home.  Now for Greg to get home – he said he left and would be home in about an hour – yeah right!  I spent the remainder of the day on the computer checking traffic, watching the news, checking FB, and on the phone with Greg – trying to tell him which routes were blocked and how to best get home.  Greg finally arrived home at 6:30 pm!  A new record for him.  But he was one of the lucky ones – he filled up with gas on Monday, his car handles the ice and roads so he was able to go around some others that were stuck.  That was the problem – cars got stuck, cars running out of gas, cars blocking the roads keeping others from getting through and trucks clogging the interstates as they slid and jack-knifed blocking all the lanes.  It was a mess a HUGE traffic jam all over the entire area – some people are now getting home more than 24 hours later – and some interstates are still clogged.  There were kids stuck at school or on school buses some overnight!  People sleeping in cars, stores, fire stations, and with strangers. Just the snow wouldn’t have been so bad, but the cars were melting it and then it was freezing into ice.  I guess I’m making this long – Greg is right – I’m sure you heard it on the news.  

Our trace of predicted snow turned into 3 inches.  And most of it came down quickly by 12:30 pm the roads were jammed and no one could move.  I was grateful when my family was home.  Ryan’s friend spent the night and I sent out a request on FB for someone to get him home – and a friend of a friend came to help.  I’m sure his mom is glad he is back at home too.  School cancelled for today (my card classes cancelled too) – school cancelled for Thursday.  We’ll see about Friday – I think tomorrow we will be over the freezing mark and with a day of sun it will greatly help get us dry.  But tonight everything the sun melted is going to freeze back to ice.

Here are a couple of videos near us – this is what happens when you hit a fire hydrant –

and then you get this stranding everyone at school

The car  –

I’ll add another post with all the Stampin’ Up! news….