I guess I should know by now that mothers have an intuition, so when my mom told me Monday night to check the weather because she heard we may be getting snow I should've known what was about to happen. I did check it Monday night and the weather man said we might get a light dusting mid afternoon Tuesday. Ok, no big deal. Jackson could easily still go to school and get home before any threat of snow happened. Luckily I checked again when my alarm went off Tuesday morning...snow every hour starting at 8am. I ofiicially called a snow day, hit to snooze button and rolled over. About 10am rolls around still no snow. By this point I'm trying to calculate how much money that day of preschool costs us by not going. Just a few minutes later it starts to flurry, I'm starting to feel a little better about my decision. Not 15 minutes later it is full on blizzard snow. I mean Northern, like we were back in Virginia kind of snow. I am now justified.
I start trying to give Drew the heads up and the snow hadn't quite hit them yet, so I think he thought I was exaggerating. Minuites later the news is starting to list road closings in Cobb county, perfect. Now Drew is starting to see the blizzard and I'm starting to think he's not going to be able to drive home. After going back and forth he starts heading home only to get stuck in his office parking lot for 30 minutes in traffic. He heads to his friend's house near by to "wait out the traffic". I knew it would be longer because the pictures I'm seeing on the news of the roads there was no way Drew was going to make it home that night. Meanwhile we ran out of milk and I realize Drew can't get home and Davis has no bottles. Luckily our friends and Sunday School teacher, the Watsons, live decently close and they walked...yes walked...a gallon of milk over. I say they live decently close because they probably had to walk close to a mile in the snow and icy paths. Good friends. Hours later Drew calls and says he can't make it, it's not safe. Luckily Chris' family had an extra bed, sadly Drew didn't have extra clothes though. Luckily Drew was able to somehow make it home about lunch time on Wednesday. He said it was like God parting the Red Sea. He apparently had to go South in a North bound 75 HOV lane and dodge abandoned cars on every street. Drew said it looked like the apocalypse.
So many people were stranded for hours and had to abandon cars because of ice or they just ran out of gas and got stuck in traffic and literally couldn't go anywhere. It was absolutely crazy. We were iced in the neighborhood for 2 days, but at least we were together.
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| When it was all still fun and games. |
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| Bundled up and ready to go... |
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| Sledding! |
