Blizzard Leaves Some Students Stuck in the Snow
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January 8, 2010
Filed under Feature, Top Stories
Heavy winds. Sleet and snow. Low temperatures. Stranded for hours upon end. Ring a bell?
“The Great Texas blizzard of 2009″ as some are calling it (there’s even an I Survived the Great Texas Blizzard 2009 Facebook group), left us with a Christmas we will surely never forget. The snow was packed high on streets and highways making it hard for people to travel leaving many families with the choice to postpone Christmas. Trees were knocked over, carports were caved in, and cars were trapped in parking lots all over the town. Though many stayed inside their homes, others were stranded out on the streets for what seemed like eternity leaving many students with great stories to tell.
“Every year my entire family comes together and we eat, exchange gifts and hangout. This year we were going to postpone it because of all the snow, but with it being tradition and all, we didn’t. It took my aunts and uncles an hour to go not even 10 miles to my house. By time they arrived at my house they got stuck in the middle of my street, so they just left their cars there and walked to my house. It was an adventure, but I’d say it was a blast.”
-Sophomore Macye Ross
“I was stuck in the snow for four hours. My mom thought it’d be a brilliant idea to go to Lake Arrowhead. We got stuck half way there and some people helped us. We turned around to head back to Wichita and there was a traffic jam and all the exit ramps were blocked off. Nobody was helping people, so me and my brother got out and helped them push. The brilliant people who were going 90 mph threw the snow back onto us.”
-Senior Jeremy Boren
“I had to go to work that Thursday it started snowing. Well, obviously we closed early, so we each grabbed some trays so we could sled down the big Filmore hill before anyone else got to it. Well, we close down, and me, my manager and the cook all jumped in my big ol’ yellow Xterra. We start driving alright, then we get stuck. I mean, REALLY stuck. I’m reeving up, switching gears constantly,while my manager and cook are pushing in the back. We do this for a good 30 minutes…and, to say the least, I was already low on gas to begin with. Suddenly, I hear this *gugugugugugugugugu* noise, and my car won’t reeve up anymore. I peak my head out the window and yell out, “Umm…ya’ll might want to stop pushing…I just ran out of gas”. So now, we’re all back in my car, and I turn off my radio and put my car in park, so the heater could keep blowing for a while. Five minutes later, I hear the same *gugugugugugugugugugu* noise, and my car is completely DEAD. We immediately call my General Manager, and she agreed to get me gas. We waited out in my car, no heater, in complete awkward silence for a good hour before she came and gave me some gas. Luckily, she made some good tracks in the snow to follow, so with a little more reeving, we finally got out and headed home.”
-Senior Terran Watson
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