On January 3rd the day before students were returning from their winter break, mysterious white fluffy stuff fell from the sky. SNOW! One of those rare occurrences that folks who call Snohomish their home don’t see very often.

Although days before consisted of temperatures below freezing, snow was not falling, just ice on the roads. The grass was coated in white frost and windshields needed water to not be covered in sheets of ice. Some student’s car doors and handles were frozen.

The first day back from winter break was what people hoped for; a two-hour delay due to snow and ice.

“My new jeep is four-wheel drive so I am mobbing in this snow,” said Junior Logan Sandstrom.

Although some students have the comfort of cars and trucks that can handle the snow, many don’t have that luxury. “It was kind of scary. It was my first snowfall with my car, and I had no clue what I was doing,” Junior Kayla Wentland said, “I just kept slamming on my brake. Everyone probably hated me,” she said.

Many students took to Twitter with their opinions. Several tweeted that the school district was wrong for making students drive in the inclement weather conditions. Most students tweeted that the district put their lives in danger due to the treacherous road conditions.

Senior Tessa Beach tweeted a scare herself when she slid in to the school entrance. “I slid into the parking lot at school, so that’s good, didn’t even use the gas pedal.

Other schools in the surrounding districts chose to have two hour delays as well, including; Everett, Marysville and even Kent school districts. Some students saw this as unfair, like senior Marshall Elliot, who said that Glacier Peak implied that students could just “fly to school” since they believed that roads weren’t icy enough to be dangerous.

Even though the snow was a hot topic that January morning, the snow made its exit by the afternoon.