Brrrr....

I'm in the sunny south, so ice storms are not going to affect me, but when I was in high school, my family would take 3 weeks every February and travel to Florida with our little travel trailer. That was the best time for my dad to get off. We'd take our school work and off we'd go. Now, we can't get off like that as the schools here want to fail you if you are off 9 days in a semester without a doctor's note.

I lived in Michigan at the time, and the snow was piled high and higher...and we'd be itching to get out of the driveway. Lots of squabbles in the car; don't know how my folks could stand it.

Anyway, one year we got caught in an ice storm in Kentucky...we managed to get from Louisville to Elizabethtown, Kentucky. It really wasn't safe. Semis were pulled off to the side of the road -- it was a bad storm. And Kentucky at that time did not have the road equipment or the sand to deal with it, the way that Michigan did without a thought.

So we were cooped up, warm as a bug in a rug, with the heater going...for a week. Where were our tans! Every day we hoped to get out. By the time we got to FL we wasted no time getting out in the sun.

I'm not sure where we pulled off. It seems like it might have been a travel trailer community...or a parking lot. We felt lucky to have made it to a safe place.

Karin

Originally posted 2007-01-13 20:54:44.

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