Snow and Driving....New England style

I heard at my staff meeting Tuesday that there was some winter weather headed our way. 8-14 inches supposed to start Wednesday morning at like 3am and last until Thursday at 1 am. So I considered packing a bag for work in case I wanted to stay over because I was working wednesday night and thursday morning. I decided against it as I was late running out the door. At about 2 pm I went outside brushed the five or so inches of snow off my car and headed out. I made it to work ok, the roads were a little rough there was no left lane driving on the highway, but the right lane was fine so no big deal. At 930 when it was time to go home I went out to start my car and brush another 6 inches of snow off my car. When I headed out to go home there were MANY times I should've paid attention to the red flags and turned around. When it took me 5 minutes to get down the street (which is two houses long) or when it took me 15 minutes to get up a quarter mile hill. But no, I made it all the way to the bottom of my own street in about 90 minutes and found out about 30 seconds later that I didn't have a chance in hell of making it up the road to my apartment. My little car gave it a valiant effort but 30 minutes later I quit, backed down a curvy snow covered dirt road and went back to work, where I slept. The best part is I woke up in the morning fully expecting an easy day with no school and found out the girls only had a 2 hour DELAY! Over a foot of snow and they get a delay, while I'm watching Cincinnati schools get closed for the third day in a row. So, I wore the same clothes all day, and just made it home to a hot shower and toothbrush about an hour ago. The roads this time were almost completely clear, craziness!!