Slick..Slick..Slick!

We had a ice storm last week with freezing rain.  All the roads and driveways were a ice rink. I think I prefer driving on snow packed roads than this stuff. 

As you can tell my car decided that it would not make the turn to get out on the street.  It just slid down sideways and then as I was trying to get off the slanted driveway, I buried my front tires into the snow pile because I couldn't get any traction.  I was stuck!  I was on my way to pick up the kids from school.  I then had to have my nice neighbor take me to get the kids that had been waiting for me to pick them up.  The poor kids were one of the last kids picked up that day.

 

Then, my other neighbor helped me chisel the driveway so that I could get traction to get the car up the driveway and dig out my tires.  There was about a 1/4 inch of solid ice to chisel away.  It was definitely a group effort. 

This picture shows the layer of ice on the driveway with the water spots underneath and the area that looks like water was actually solid ice in front of our drive way.

 



These pictures were taken by my other teenage neighbor that was texting her mom to tell her what had happened.  I am glad that I could provide the afternoon entertainment. Too Funny! 

 

The school district decided to delay the starting of school by 2 hours the next day.  So, the kids started school at 10:30a and had early out at 1:15p.  It was a really short day for them!