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Please Stay Off Icy Roads

Please stay off icy 
Nineteen-year-old-girl is dead.
Please stay off the roads
Highway patrolman on news.
Is begging us to stay home

Ice under the snow
Do not travel anywhere
Car ran into bridge
East I- 70 is closed
Highway patrol is crying


Please stay off icy
Your life is too important
Your children love you
Nineteen-year-old-girl is dead.
Please stay off the roads

Copyright © Caren Krutsinger | Year Posted 2019

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Mahtab Bangalee Date: 1/23/2019 10:25:00 PM stay off terrible winter icy cold; winter greets abnormally; beware, stay safe at home //(kimo) Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 1/24/2019 12:45:00 AM The black ice is unseen, and you have no idea until you are flying off the interstate, upside down in your car, about to be killed. I know because I have survived this. And believe me, I never saw the ice. Had no idea why these "old people" were going so slowly as I zipped around them at eighty miles an hour and was promptly thrown off the road. That was 39 years ago.

M. L. Kiser Date: 1/23/2019 5:26:00 PM Yes, very good advice. Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 1/23/2019 9:02:00 PM I was in no way tempted. We took the day off, and I have no idea if I can get out of my driveway tomorrow either.