I’ve been asked any number of times in the past couple of months, "WHO is responsible for my child’s safety?"<\/p>\n
My answer: "you are." And I exercised that authority this morning.<\/p>\n
As my younger two children boarded the bus at 6:50, it was sleeting pretty hard (not necessarily a road hazard, but worthy of further investigation) and turned on the TV. A couple of school systems were closed or delayed, but those were north and east of us — the usual systems that close when no one else does. Still, I left the news on, since I’d noted yesterday evening that the ground was frozen in my front yard… it’s been very cold the last couple of nights.<\/p>\n
Beta wasn’t ready yet, but as the news came on that DOE had closed Bethel Valley Road due to black ice, I told her to just hang out for an extra hour and give it time to warm up a little. I e-mailed a note to her first period teacher, and wrote a note for her to check in at the office.<\/p>\n
It was subsequently announced that buses in Oak Ridge would run 1.25 hours late, but that was after the middle and high school run had already occurred. I just learned a moment ago — literally, in the middle of the last sentence — that all after-school activities at Robertsville have been cancelled.<\/p>\n
Good call. This ice sort of took everyone by surprise, because the weather-guessers had predicted rising temperatures. Even now, today’s forecast high is 42, but it’s only 34 as of 1:52 p.m.<\/p>\n
The last thing I remember the weather guy saying this morning is "there’s NO chance of this stuff re-freezing for the afternoon commute," whereupon I clarified to Beta that we’d just received the best odds of bad weather one can get.<\/p>\n
I’m out of bread, but I have what I need to bake some. I think that’s just what I’ll do.<\/p>\n
Stay home, be safe, and focus on what’s most important for tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve been asked any number of times in the past couple of months, "WHO is responsible for my child’s safety?" My answer: "you are." And I exercised that authority this morning. As my younger two children boarded the bus at … Continue reading