Okay, so as you all know, I live in Alabama. Specific city? Helena (pronounced HEH-LEE-NAH). City located where? Next to Birmingham. Pretty small town, yeah.
So...as you also might know, a mini blizzard hit today. It started around near ten in the morning, and it started sticking ten minutes after it started. So after an hour of snowing, it escalated into us getting out of school early. But the buses were not running and Juniors and Seniors couldn't leVe because roads were blocked off because of the ice on the roads. So we were stuck at school for about two hours till a friend if mine's stepmom came and got us out. We stayed in traffic for about an hour and a half because a huge 18-wheeler was laying across the road blocking us all off. So after another thirty minutes pass, we decide to turn around, and I spot my daddy so I get in the car with him and we head into a gas station cause daddy needed gas and we were both starving. So daddy gets gas and I buy us some food, and then daddy goes to use the bathroom. While I was waiting on him, a lady came up and she asked for a ride so we gave it to her because her wheels were just a spinning and her child was home alone. So we eventually get back in the road but the main road is blocked so we have to turn around. So we do, and we get all the way across the city and that road is closed too. But then the other one opens again so we head back toward that one.
Now, while all this is happening, my mom left work around 10:30 and she was in the interstate (she works at UAB). Eventually, her car starts swerving and her engine goes out and overheats, and so she stays in her car for an hour or so, but she gets cold, so she grabs valuables and just humps it outta there. Then this lady with a van picks her up but somewhere along the way she sees a co-worker do she hops in the car with him.
Eventually, daddy and I get to her and it takes another several hours to finally reach home.
It was horrible. Ice everywhere.cars abandoned