Unoffical Snow Day Called By Mom-In-Charge!

So we are expecting as much as 15 cms of snow to fall in our region between now and five this evening. Making both the morning and evening rush hours hellish to say the very least. A peak at a local news' media website and the top story centres around the fact that already this morning, before 6am, there have been dozens of crashes due to the weather. Yet our Catholic school board has not yet cancelled the school buses. What to do?

Well I could, I suppose send my child to school on her school bus, business as usual. From looking out my window, the sidewalk seems to only have received a light dusting at this point. Though I am mindful of the rather sheltered community, the high brick building construction of our century old Victoria Row House complex and how that so nicely seems to shield us from all but the most heaviest and windiest storms. I am also mindful of the simple fact that the heaviest accumulation is expected to fall between eight and noon today.

Still there is one more factor that weighs heaviest on this mom's mind. Beginning in 1999 through until 2003, I was a school bus driver. Employed through two different Boards; one rural the other urban, I know all too well that there are days when no bus should run, period! That as a former driver I have witnessed some pretty horrific accidents; both visually as well as the aftermath on our closed frequency radios. The pleas and terrified shrieks of one driver, many years later, still clear in my mind as she pleaded for help for another motorist who's car was pinned beneath her front tires. In an instant any who saw the motorist knew he wasn't to be helped. It was on a day that is quite reminiscent of today's expected forecast.

On another occasion a close friend and fellow driver. Having made the call to refuse a high school student to bored her bus. A gut feeling that all was not good to then only moments later be faced with being hit by a loaded 40' transport truck or swerve hard, hit a ditch and over turn the bus. Almost a decade later and still dealing with chronic and severe back pain.; unable to return to work.

So I suppose the point in me writing is to ask simply this...."how well do you trust your child's school board in deciding if the roads are safe enough to travel?" Though it may turn out to be next to nothing? Maybe be passed over, even....still she's just far too precious for me to gamble on and so today.....today I'M CALLING MY OWN SNOW DAY brought to you by the Board of Mom:) Have a great and safe day, everyone.