All I can say about the weather over the past weekend is somebody please make it stop!
We had yet another epic failure of road department management doing what they get paid to do. The weather guessers were guessing that Friday was going to bring bad weather, and it did bring bad weather, just a bit sooner than the weather guessers guessed. Freezing rain started a little before noon, but the pre-treat wasn’t done and the entire central part of the state turned into a giant skating rink, with the MoDoT-maintained roads being the worst.
Naturally, there was a giant freak-out and everyone decided to leave work early and try to go home, which was, for the most part, a really bad idea. I was out and about doing stuff and got caught in the traffic jam.
It took me 3hrs45mins to travel five miles on state road WW east out of Columbia. There were well over 100 vehicles off the road in that five mile stretch. The last of the kids that get home on school buses weren’t dropped off until after midnight.
And then it turned cold. And snowed. And then it got colder.
My daughter called on Friday to let us know how slick the roads were and that she was going to be really late getting home.