State of Emergency

That's right boys and girls, Wake county declared "a state of emergency" today as the snow grid-locked the streets. Normal 7 minute drives were now 4 1/2 hours long. So, parents have been unable to pick up their kids, people have been selling pizza's on the side of the road and complaints of "indecent exposure" have been filing into police stations (aka: after 5-9 hours in stopped highway traffic, finding a bathroom isn't an option). Over 3,000 students in 50 schools are stranded and well, spending the night and eating dinner in the cafeteria. A few buses finally pulled over into the local hospitals and decided to have the kids spend the night there because of slippery roads and tired students (it was 11:00). Shelters have been set up for others not able to get home, schools and businesses canceled tomorrow and my trip to DC is in limbo. Ahh, but that's not all. I was on my way to Chapel Hill, narrowly avoiding the pandemonium, to see Rachael and Erin when I got rear-ended by a Mercedes-Benz -- and yep, it was the green Corsica again (this time on the other side to even it out). Luckily, her car took it a little worse than mine and dad just wanted to know if it "was anything a can of spray paint couldn't fix". . . so I guess that women got off pretty easy. How much snow could stop traffic, strand thousands of people and cause over 700 wrecks all over the piedmont? Hold your breath, you Idahoans and Utahans. . .it was a whopping 3/4 inch of snow.