After the ice hit yesterday, schools will be closed today. I felt sorry for the sheriff's deputies when the dispatchers were paging out one 41 (wreck) after another. There were 3 wrecks at one time on Pilgrim Mill Road between my house and town about 4 PM. One made the Atlanta TV news at 5. The school bus drivers had a time of it. One bus driver got stuck on the hill in front of my garden. Couldn't go up, couldn't roll back down without a chance of sliding off into the creek. (They had to pull it on up) It was worse later. The sheriff's deputies were taking kids off the bus and delivering them home as late as 7 PM. The scariest one was a bus that slid off the road (Knight Road) and the bus driver was afraid if she took her foot off the brake she would slide on down a 20 foot embankment. I give the fire and sheriff's department credit for getting those last 6 kids and the driver out in a hurry. For those of you who live away from Forsyth, this county has many hills and gullies particularly in the area around the creeks that feed the Chattahoochee and Etowah Rivers. It puts me in mind of a story from one of the old newspapers from the 1800s. A preacher was crossing Big Creek in one of our Winter flood times. His buggy was washed off the road and down the creek. He managed to catch onto a tree and that is where they found him, frozen to death and to the tree. 80 years later the story had turned into a ghost story. In more modern times, since 1970, Pilgrim Mill Road has washed out many times. One time it took a young woman and her little car with it. The car floated into some trees and they got her out unharmed. When my teen agers started driving, I used to tell them in wet weather: "When you start down the hill from the store, make sure the road is still there before you try to cross the creek." Donna