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If you are driving to school, be careful

Written by Bella Burnell on December 14, 2010 – 10:19 pm

Be careful out there this morning.

In all my years of living up north, I never slid on ice. But I did last night in Decatur. My daughter’s middle school choir sang before Wednesday night’s performance of “A Christmas Story,” which is being mounted by Georgia Shakespeare at its Oglethorpe University stage.

Our family loves the movie so we bought tickets and stayed for the play, which was fantastic with amazing child actors. (For a fun night, take your kids ages 7 and older.)

The ride home at 9:40 p.m. was spooky. I am a slow driver by nature but I was crawling last night. And all was well until I hit my own street where I slid for about 10 feet. My kids thought it was fun, but I was desperately trying to remember the rules for righting a car after hitting ice. I sort of coasted until I could regain control, luckily hitting nothing in the process. My street is on top of a hill and is famous for getting extreme ice, but I had never had an issue before last night.

Our schools are delayed until 10 a.m. today because of road icing. Given the conditions and the number of sirens I am still hearing in the distance this morning, that was the right decision.

To all of you taking kids to school or driving yourselves, be careful. And to all of you whose schools are closed, enjoy the break but dodge the ice.

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