Fern Drive Elementary School was one of the spots parents came to pick up their kids after an anxious weekend hoping the weather would be calm enough for them to make it back, after spending an extra 3 cold days in the mountains.Hundreds of Orange County students finally made their way back home with a California highway patrol escort Monday.
Students from at least two Orange County school districts were supposed to return home from a trip on Friday but got snowed in – in Running Springs and in Crestline after last week’s record-breaking storm."It was a science camp. But this is a life lesson for them. How to deal with and adapt to change and how to deal with things that come up unexpectedly," said Joe Conty, a teacher at Fern Drive Elementary.“This is definitely the worst it’s been.