MARILYN, We live on a country road too. Ours is the last ones to be worked by the road crews. So at the first sign of a flurry NO SCHOOL some times for a week. Now I don't believe in endangering our school kids BUT I remember walking to the bus stop (no not up hill and it was only a short distance) standing out in the snow and 0 % temperature for a half hour waiting on the bus. Riding a bus on these Virginia mountain curvy roads for up to 25 miles. If the roads got so bad the bus couldn't go the driver got off the bus put on chains and on we went. It was up to the driver as to wheather the road was too bad for him to make a run. If it was that run was not made and those children were not counted absent. If a parent decided it was too bad for their child to ride the bus he had the option of taking him to school or keeping him out if the latter happened the pupil was not counted absent. Are todays children that much better than we were? Seems to me that we are be coming a very soft county of people. Dot Jo ----- Original Message ----- From: "MARILYN/DON RICKMAN" <mdrick@centurytel.net> To: <samgospel@yahoo.com>; <down-home-chatter@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 2:10 PM Subject: Re: [DOWN-HOME-CHATTER] GOOD MORNING > Sam, We live on a state highway & they take good care of it but the people > that live on the county roads are the ones that suffer. The county doesn't > do anything to them so the school buses can't run & 97% of all of the > students live in the country. > > Stay safe & warm. SPRING IS ON IT"T WAY.! ! ! ! ! > > Marilyn > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sam Loudermilk" <samgospel@yahoo.com> > To: <down-home-chatter@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:24 AM > Subject: Re: [DOWN-HOME-CHATTER] GOOD MORNING > > >> >> Marilyn, it sounds like your roads are like ours. Lots of hills, our road >> is gravel, and huge hills..............................sun is shining, >> and >> it is suppose to get to 32 today..........we had about 4 inces of ice and >> snow. Yesterday, it was just ice that was coming down most of the day, >> then it turned back to snow...................everything is shut down >> here, no one venturing out, roads are just sheets of >> ice.................yuk! I have seen it a lot >> worse.....................glad this has ended, and glad we didn't have a >> power outage....................stay safe and warm....................sam > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DOWN-HOME-CHATTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message