The whole week prior to January’s epic snowstorm, many news channels warned the community about how severe these storms could be. The Harrison Kroger got slammed every day prior to this snowstorm even running out of milk and bread due to people being scared.
Unlike other storms that fizzled out and left us with too much milk and bread and perfectly drivable roads, this storm didn’t disappoint. Snow fall was between 12-14 inches, and with the extremely low temperatures, salting the roads was not as effective, leading to the county calling an unusual Level 3 Snow Emergency, which means that no one other than emergency vehicles should be on the roads.
Southwest Local School District ended up calling off school from January 26th-28th, and we ended up coming back the 29th. The roads were not in the worst condition, but for high school students it was rough going. Between the piles of snow making the high school parking lot difficult to navigate, making lanes that usually handle two lanes of traffic easily struggle to handle one, and icy spots on the roads, we ended up with 5 accidents in the morning, including multiple totaled vehichles. Many say that this could have been prevented by giving us an e-learning day, like Oak Hills and several other districts had.
Senior Brady Lawhon, starting quarterback and varsity basketball player, was involved in one of these accidents. He was on his way to school after ending his 3 days off school, and as he was about to turn onto school grounds, he unfortunately hit a patch of ice and crashed his car crunching his hood at first. As he got out of his car to assess the damage, he thought his car peed its pants, but it was actually leaking anti-freeze.
Hopefully we all have learned a bit about snow driving, and that we will be better prepared for the next snow storm!
