Frozen In

If anyone has been listening to the news, our county got the brunt of the ice storm that rolled through Atlanta. I was working a little late and tried to head home around 5:30. Wrong choice. I didn't even make it to the interstate when I just turned around and headed back to the office to work in hopes that the traffic would die down. I worked alone until about 7 or so and tried it again. This time traffic was lighter but still backed up like crazy trying to get on the interstate. WSB was great in getting me up to date information. That is when I found out that 575 was closed do to accidents and ice. They said that from 4:30pm to 6pm, in those 90 minutes, our county recorded 90 accidents! I turned around again and tried another direction.

I knew of a bunch of back roads to get home and I thought I'd try one route that takes me by April's school. This proved to be the perfect route with no accidents or traffic but the roads were very windy and rural. 20 mph all the way home and didn't get to the neighborhood until about 8pm. I saw about 20 cars parked in yards at the entrance of the neighborhood and after talking with some people milling about, I found out that the roads in the neighborhood were frozen. So I parked the Jeep and walked the half mile home.

School is canceled tomorrow but I think work will be "canceled" in the morning at least.