outspoken1's Blog

The following events repeat themselves year after year in Wise County

1.  People hear the forecast of snow and never believe it untill it starts.

2.  When it does start during daylight working hours panic sets in. Got to take take off early from work, I could be stranded at work, OMG! Then the media wants to ad to the panic. The News media loves it, makes good News.

3.  Then the the traffic doubles and cars are every where, cars sliding off the road. Cars and trucks in the ditches. It looks like Chicken Little the sky is falling syndrom. 

4.  Then the gas stations and grocery stores fill up with cars and people. OMG! I may run out of gas and my family and I could starve to death because of this weather.

5.  Then what happens next is the most dangerous event of all and it gets real scary. THEY TURN SCHOOL OUT! This is when you dare not go out. The reason they do this is so the School Busses can get the little kids home safe and that is okay. It is the next phase that is the dangerous part. 

6.  The next phase is this, any School kid with a drivers license gets turned out too. This is the problem, you know and I know what we did under the same circumstances when we were young. One big difference, they were a lot fewer of us and a whole lot fewer cars.  Traffic in this county turns into a nightmare and with rock trucks and tank trucks added to the mix.

7.  Then the Police scanner comes to life in the middle of all this pademonnium. All the sudden all emergency services are flooded with calls. Vehicle accidents, Medical calls, Fires, Wrecker calls, you name it. We even had family disturbances going on during all this. I guess they were fighting about food or gas.

This senerio repeats itself each year and will continue to do so under the same conditions. It's just the order of things. Now that i think about it, it is interesting to be at home listening on the scanner and tv. Only problem is last year one of them ended up in my front yard and did $1,500 dollars in damage to my fence that the young man never paid for. Oh well stuff happens.

Drive Safe Out There!