[Tonya Scott 476]

I have never seen sleet and ice like we had here. Starting last Friday, it started coming down hard--sleet! Most of the kids at our high school (1400 students 9-12) were checked out by their parents by 2pm. I live out of town, so another teacher kept my 2 kids (that was all that showed up for last hour class) and I put my car in 4x4, and went home. It sleeted/rained for 2 days. Now we have this incredible thick layer of ice, unlike anything I have ever seen. You can drive over it, on the soft parts of your yard, and cant see tire marks. Our school was out Monday for holiday, and then Tues because the parking lots had to be cleared. South and eastern Oklahoma are devistated. They haven't had electricity since Friday night.

The scary news---the temp hasn't been above 30 degrees, and we are supposed to get up to 10-12 inches of snow this weekend again.

Our street and state road crews aren't set up to handle this----we just don't normally get this type of weather.

I think this next blast is supposed to come on up to the east after this weekend---so watch out.

I'm not sure how we are going to get a robot built if we lose another week--and we have been doing this for 8 years-the rookie teams in our state are getting really frustrated-as you can understand.