spiceman80
for those abandoned cars they give you a grace period to go get them off the roads. The crappy part is getting to them, many people left theirs on highways and major roads.
For the kids in schools, I think if you were able to you could have went and got them. I can't speak exactly On how it's going down because I nor none of my friends back home have kids that were stuck.
One woman ended up giving birth on the side of the interstate, she had the baby and everything was alright. Eventually an ambulance got to her. CNN reported that one person died during the chaos (assuming from an accident) and there were over 1000 accidents (I'm sure many were just fender benders)