Snowed in
Students hoping for a ride between Super Bowl parties received no support from the usually dependable Escort Service Sunday night.
Phone dispatchers were forced to tell those in need of a ride that the Escort Service was closed due to inclement weather.
"All of our vans are rear-wheel drive," University Police Capt. Purcell McCue said. "When the roads get slick we really can't run."
Although main roads were plowed, back roads and parking lots were made virtually impassable by the third winter storm of the semester.
"Most people want to be picked up in and out of parking lots and if we go in, we can't get out," McCue said.
Students still were able to rely on UTS buses to get them across main routes, however.
But for students stuck on back roads, visions of four-wheel drive vans were only a dream. Unlike SUVs, vans can only be custom ordered with all-wheel drive -- an expense which is not worthy of the three or four large snowstorms Charlottesville generally receives each year, McCue said.
Nonetheless, despite the lingering ice and snow, the Escort Service was back in action last night.
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