Goliath storm paralyzes area

Goliath, a record-breaking storm, left Seminole with more snow than most students had seen in their lifetimes. Starting on Jan. 25, Goliath left an estimated eight inches of snow and about one inch of ice which brought traffic to a standstill.

“When me and my dad were driving there was this truck under three feet of snow, and we tried to help him out,” junior Jason Sotelo said. “It was a once in a lifetime experience. I have never seen this much snow.”

Sotelo rode in the police car with his dad during the storm.

“It was about three o’clock in the morning, and my dad got this call that a kid couldn’t breathe and needed a police escort to the hospital,” Sotelo said. “As we got out, my dad and I did two 360’s. At the house the snow was so high my dad’s co-worker ended up breaking the door of the house.”

The child was junior Pedro Enriquez Robles’s nephew.

“It was a Saturday night and my whole family was at my house,” Enriquez Robles said. “Then one of my nephews got sick. We had to call the ambulance because there was too much snow, so we couldn’t go in our own car. When they got to my house there was one ambulance and two police cars.”

Junior Angel Tanner was not stopped by the snow. She walked to work in the storm.

“It was cold, there was snow, and I almost fell in,” Tanner said. “I always walk to work. I got really good hours because the other workers couldn’t get to work.”

Freshman Taylor Harvey and her family got stuck twice in the snow within a mile of their house.

“My brother and my dad were hunting, and they got stuck in one of our trucks,” Harvey said. “My dad called me and told me to drive the other truck down our road to come get them. As I was driving I got stuck in the snow. Finally, after two hours, we were able to get home and out of the snow.”

Whether it was getting stuck in the snow, getting a police escort, or walking to work, Goliath brought new experiences as the blizzard kept the area off the roads for two days and cleaning up after it for weeks.