We are about 35 minutes from my daughter’s school. We heard that it was going to start snowing around 8pm Sunday night. Still the school allowed people to contact campus and come back Saturday night or anyone could just come back as of 8am Sunday. My younger daughter had a special event 2-3pm that my oldest wanted to see so we left around 3:30.
It started snowing when we were just a few minutes from campus. We didn’t get out of the car just dropped her off. Within that short amount of time the roads were already bad. We saw several accidents including a 6 car pile up on the road we just came from. The main highway was even worse including a pick up truck with plow attachment just about completely engulfed with flames (looked like driver was already safely out) and when we called emergency number they had already received several calls. Our anti lock brakes kicked in a few times. The closer we got to home though the weather, while snowing, was not nearly as bad.
By 10pm my daughter already had 13 inches of snow with another 1.5 feet anticipated by Tuesday morning. There was also periods of rain mixed in so there was actually more snow and some was pretty icy. They cancelled Monday which I thought was good for commuters. Tuesday I don’t think they were open but I know one of my daughter’s Tuesday classes was done online for the professor’s convenience so perhaps it was optional. They ended up with about 2 feet of snow.
On the other hand close to my area the weather was not nearly as bad Sunday into Monday. I was glad they my younger daughter had school since I was chaperoning a field trip further away from older daughter’ s school. After school activities were cancelled Monday more so knowing teachers may have a long commute so they like them to have a chance to drive home in daylight when they know some are driving into bad weather areas. Tuesday was actually worse where I live and school was cancelled all over my area but probably more due to icy conditions. I never heard our snow total but i would say 6 to 8 inches at most. Fortunately it stopped snowing early enough to shovel out Tuesday night and roads were treated overnight.