Hard to explain to anyone ( except to those in Georgia or Alabama) what a SNOW GRIDLOCK is like?! You really wanna know?! we have NO snow plows/ no equipment to handle snow that comes about every 25 years/no way to drive on ICE and guess what?! This has been our weathermen's worst nightmare!! This even slipped up on them!!!!! YES, we have had a SNOW EVENT that has rivaled no other! Yes,this has been unbelievable!!!!!!! A short re-cap of the past 3 days:.
I run to Dollar General to get a few things only to get a text from Katie saying she heard,( in Atlanta!), that our roads were getting bad. I looked outside and ....shocker. It was snowing hard. I buy a few things and leave. I'm so glad I left when i did! roads were already getting icy!
around lunchtime Nat calls and she had a scary ride home from "fitness Resolve", where she works, in Ross Bridge. Kids were stuck at school but parents "encouraged" to get them. By this time that was impossible. Roads were already hazardous. My calm/strong daughter was freaking b/c she had just had the scariest drive ever!
terry calls and says he is stuck at the Colannade. So, what does my brave man do???? WALKS!!!!!!! walks from the Colannade which is a long way away! He leaves his car at the Colannade parking lot and walks 13 miles home in 2 /12 hours! UNREAL!
IN THE MEANTIME: it's getting bad in Atlanta! Katie tells jon to LEAVE~ he FINALLY does, but too late!!!! Traffic in Atlanta , on a GOOD DAY, is hellish, a SNOW DAY, it's impossible. In the end, it would take him over 12 hours. With harrowing conditions/going up huge hills and watching cars plummet. HE MADE IT! praise theLord! There were TONS of people who had problems, too. Lots had to spend nights places. What's bad for Jon, tho, is he lives in Atlanta, where he doesn't know anyone/doesn't know the exits/just learning to navigate there. So his trip was made even MORE scary than most.....Natalie got the kids by a friend who had a 4 wheel drive who picked them up! SHE WAS SO HAPPY! ...Charles watched from UAB, (where he works now), below the mess and sent lots of pix!....Michael and Lily got stuck in Arby's! (I bet Lily enjoyed that!)! And Michael entertained us all with his wit. AND BRAD! POOR BRAD! Even as I write this, on Thursday afternoon, he is STILL at Advent downtown!!!! (our hero--he stayed with some ladies there so they wouldn't have to be alone, plus the fact ice was still everywhere there!)....
TODAY, 3 days later, we chill out and warm UP!!!!!! Terry just left with a friend to go get his car. Natalie is dealing with frozen pipes without Brad and Michael/Kadie are trying to warm their frozen pipes up also. Charles is waiting for the roads to get better to leave.Brad is still holding down the fort at Cathedral Church of the Advent downtown. OH! And did I mention that PATRICK is in SAN DIEGO where it's 75 degrees? Yeah.