Well, they canceled our church’s big Christmas concert last night, and they canceled it again tonight.
The problem yesterday was that people couldn’t get here through the snow. The problem tonight is that there aren’t enough places to park. The lot is cleared, but the snow had to go somewhere, and it’s all around the perimeter of the parking lot, which means a lot of the perimeter parking spaces are unusable. In addition, the residential streets have not been plowed curb-to-curb yet, so there’s no possibility of on-street parking.
Tomorrow, they’ve canceled all the worship services except for one — the 11:00 a.m. service. And whether or not we have concerts tomorrow is still up in the air. On a semi-related note, I wasn’t able to deliver the Grace Alive program to the radio and TV stations yesterday or today, so that will be a rerun of last week’s program tomorrow morning at 9 a.m.
My kids have been having a blast playing in the snow! They go out and dig and build forts and all kinds of exciting things, then come in and have hot cocoa and homemade cookies. What a life. 🙂
Happy snow day again, everyone!
Quote frequently heard from the Little Dragons the past two days:
“N-n-n-n-no d-d-d-daddy. I’m n-n-not c-c-c-cold. We d-d-d-don’t n-n-need to go in y-y-yet.” said through shivering blue lips.
All good things must come to an end they say. I’m sure some “civic minded” idiot will soon be hollering how awful it was that the people of central Illinois had to spend a couple days near home instead of spending their money at WalMart. Here’s to the thought that the construction of snowmen outstripped the sales of Chinese-made junk this weekend!
My street was opened up yesterday. As soon as everyone dug out, they were “outta-there”. I guess that was the end of the neighborhood bonding.
I have a side business that contracts with a large number of busineses and people with snow plows/trucks and we do a lot of snow removal. The amount of people that tried to go out in cars during the height of the storm was amazing. These people got stuck in the middle of intersections, in the streets (not in the ditch) and abandoned their vehicles. This is the main reason why the main roads were in such poor condition. It should be legal for the city plow trucks to push cars out of the way. The city trucks had to drive around vehicles. At one point, one of our drivers reported 38 cars stuck in the roadway (not the ditches) on Knoxville between Proctor Hospital and Pioneer Pky.
Early Saturday morning, the scene was repeated as virtually every idiot with a SUV thought they could go out sight-seeing. Traffic was a mess because of this and did not help the city in removal of the snow. Besides, virtualy nothing was even open! Our drivers came across so many stuck cars and SUV’s it wasn’t funny and we will not tow them out. We will stop and offer a cell phone call if needed, but insurance would cost us too much to help otherwise.
All of our truck drivers reported numerous near misses (thankfully, no accidents) with stupid people who tried to rush past them as they were backing up into intersections to remove snow from entrance ways, while in parking lots, etc. All of our trucks have flashing lights and other safety items.
When it is snowing, stay off the roads. It isn’t safe. I have heard of other cities that have actual DRIVING BANS during really bad weather. maybe the City could look into this.
C.J.
I see District 150 will be closed Monday and I support that since the safety of our children is so important! Hopefully the salaried personnel such as administrators, clerical, and maintenance will be required to work that day as has been the practice with the previous administrations.
Sorry here if I’m sounding petty agin about the mere $469,000 in wages paid for non performace of duties when Superintendent Hinton closed 150 on a mere technicality in a printed calandar back on Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Hey! Maybe Hinton/Cahill can get the PBC to mortgage Peoria’s future for this snow day too!