Ok so I’m on this traveling academic team. We are planing on leaving today to take a trip to compete at 2 contests in 2 different states over 5 days. Today as I got a phone call from my mom telling me to look at the weather. Apparently there is going to be severe storms and there has already been flash floods and tornados. She and my dad really do not want me to go. And honestly if it’s going to be that bad I don’t want to go and if it is going to be that bad I’m worrying that the event might get canceled anyway. I don’t think my team mates know about the weather and our advisor isn’t even around, in fact the first day we will be traveling he won’t even be with us, one of our team mates will be driving us in our team van. Im really worried about the weather but I don’t want to call my teammates and say hey I’m not going because of that. We are supposed to be leaving today within a few hours and I really don’t know what to do. I don’t want to miss a competition and I feel really bad and I feel like I might be ostracized for it. I was looking forward to the event but I just don’t like the idea of going into that bad weather and not even having an advisor. And besides even if our advisor knew of the the weather he probably doesn’t care because that’s just how he is, uncaring. He’s made us stay in really old bad motels and when we try to tell him we kind of don’t want to stay here he’s always just like “ok” and makes us stay. We’ve even gotten into a car accident on the road but there was any damage so our advisor just drove off and he really didn’t ask if any of us were ok. I feel really bad for missing the competition and for taking the week off school for it if I’m not even going to go, I just don’t feel comfortable about traveling. What should I do? Would you not go? Should I make up an exuse and say I had a family emergency at home and I don’t feel comfortable leaving?