MUNCIE, Ind - This week, Muncie residents experienced the coldest week of the month. Ball State students were hit with icy roads and cold walks to class.
For some, the snow brings fond memories of making snowmen and snow angels, and others, the thought of slipping, falling and hurting. For one student, it’s a mix of both
“My Freshman year, me and my buddies lived in the dorms,” said senior Owen Dewese. “We’d always walk around campus, we hardly ever took the bus. But, especially when it got snowy out we would do races, a horrible idea looking back on it, but there were probably four or five times that we just completely slipped and ate it on the ice.”
To keep caution of this below freezing windchill, make sure to suit up in coats, scarfs, hats and gloves. Avoid the frostbite by taking the University offered buses and transportation.
“Make sure to not walk too long in the snow, rather make use of the Inter-city buses that the University has. Limit how much you go out and limit walking on the street,” said graduate student Emmenuel Adu.
For many students, their transportation methods have been frozen shut.
“So, originally on campus, I got around by skating,” Said Cole Wheeler. “Now it's different because I have to take the buses. I live off campus. It usually takes me what would be five minutes to get to class. It takes me 20, including waiting on the bus or if I wanna walk. I’ve slipped and fallen multiple times. My tailbone is bruised, it’s not fun around here.”
Always keep in mind safety while being out and about in the cold. Keep your eyes on the ice and try not to slip.
“I always enjoy walking through the snow,” Dewese said. “It’s really the ice that bothers me the most. I walk from the commuter lot on the north side of campus to my classes. I prefer to walk, so ice just makes it a little trickier to not eat it on my way.”
The lowest temperature ever recorded in Muncie was -29 degrees in Jan of 1994, and thankfully we are nowhere close to that. With spring break in the coming weeks, we can only hope for warmer weather.
Contact Braylon Judy with comments at braylon.judy@bsu.edu.
