Opinion: Winter Weather Advisory

Winter Weather Advisory

Alexandria Rivers| Editor in chief

“A winter weather advisory has been issued for your location”, which is the notification I woke up to on January 27th after it had snowed two days in a row.

I love winter, and I love when it snows, but I have never liked driving in it. I live in Kansas City on the edge of the school district on the east side. My roads never get cleared because the city never comes through and cleans them. It is quite a pain trying to get places in the snow and ice when your vehicle isn’t 4 wheel drive going up and down slick hills.

The morning that I wrote this, my brakes weren’t the best due to the snow and had almost slid onto K-32. I could see the rush hour trafc getting closer and closer and my brakes wanting to give up, but I got it under control and kept driving.

In the past when we got a lot of snow, the school district checked the roads in Bonner and Edwardsville, but never my part of town. When I used to ride the bus and it was slick or there was snow on the ground, the bus drivers seemed like they didn’t care and kept driving recklessly and that made me not even want to get on the bus or even go to school.

I understand that they can’t cancel school every time it snows or ices, but at least get it plowed before you try to send your students to school in unsafe conditions.

Driving is the worst part about it, but then as you get to school you are expecting an easy walk inside, well that would be the case, but the parking lot lines are covered in snow and there is ice everywhere waiting for students to slip and fall.

In the winter, I wake up early just to see the snow has fallen. That meant that I had to clean my vehicle of and leave earlier than normal just to make it to school in time. My roads are never clear and have a few tire marks from people that have driven on the street. I would drive in hoping that no one was doing the same thing on the other side of the street. As soon as you get onto K-32, you see that they have semi-cleared it and as you get to Bonner, it is almost completely clear.

The city of Bonner Springs does a great job clearing the roads when they need to and so does Edwardsville, but what I am trying to say that if the school district wants to consider me an Edwardsville resident, then they should be clearing my street and seeing if it is even safe for buses to be on.