Actually I was not on the East Coast when the first hit of historical winter storm. I flew home on Thursday evening because an organization, Deaf Inc. invited me to come to their event on Saturday and to present myself as Miss Deaf Missouri. I was supposed to fly back to D.C. on Sunday but my flight was cancelled. So I called AirTran and they moved me to Monday evening. Again, it was cancelled and moved to Tuesday evening.
Good thing that my flight was delayed to Tuesday because I met Alan Hurwitz. He was trapped in Oklahoma too so he flew to St. Louis, Missouri because he rather to stay at his friend’s home instead a motel in Oklahoma. So on Tuesday, I went to Deaf Inc. and met him. It was so weird because I am a Gallaudet student and met the president of Gallaudet in St. Louis, Missouri instead at Gallaudet campus! Lucky him, he make it back to D.C. on Tuesday evening because he flew to DCA, not me. I was going to fly to BWI.
I was trapped in St. Louis until Wednesday because Baltimore got a lot more snow than D.C. When I saw the news that snowstorm is GONE in D.C. but a snowstorm was coming to St. Louis on Thursday morning so I decided to fly to Atlanta, GA and stay at a friends home for one night on Wednesday. On Thursday I flew back to the East Coast!
When I got back to the campus, I saw many gloomy faces of Gallaudet students and my face was shining from warm weather in St. Louis and Atlanta! When my friends told me how devasting that they were trapped in the dorms with no shuttle services and unpaved sidewalks. Only I can say, THANK GOD I WAS IN ST. LOUIS WITH MY FAMILY AND PETS!
I don’t see any positive feelings from my friends but a lot of negative feelings. I understand how they feel when DPS told them the campus is closed and the shuttle service is closed. I think that is kind of unfair for the students because they don’t have other things to do on the campus. Maybe Gallaudet should set up a recreation center for
students during weekends, bad weather, etc. A week of seeing the same people on campus drove them crazy and made them wanting to get out so badly. But the week before the storm, the weather was so beautiful and the students were staying in the dorms? That don’t make any sense to me but I think the peers and media influence are the reasons because when they see other people whining about trapping in the dorms and the news on televisions telling them to keep warm, get more food in case, etc make them worry. So they feel the need to get out and feel that the outside world is fine because of staying in ONE place with a fence around them make they feel “paranoid.”
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