AIBU to be reluctant to go to work in the current weather?

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Okay so I'm in East Anglia where we have had heavy snow for a few days and my road is a slushy, snowy nightmare (I took a walk around earlier to see what I'm dealing with).
I'm a TA in a school, and I live just over a mile away, and we have been shut this week and continue to be shut tomorrow except to those critical workers who absolutely cannot arrange alternative childcare - around 15-20 children are confirmed. Whilst we have been in lockdown I have been working 2 days in the school and 3 from home. Wednesday isn't my day in school.
I just received a message asking if I'm willing to go in tomorrow and I feel like perhaps IABU to say no BUT I have for a number of reasons:

1. I am not a confident driver in ice and snow, my road looks horrendous and I would also have to travel down and up a fairly steep hill to get there
2. DH is away with work so I am unable to leave DS9 and DD1 with him when I go to work so I would need to take them with me if I walked and I don't want to walk DD at 7:30am when its -3 (feeling like -9)
3. I have a current issue with my back and wouldn't like to chance slipping and injuring myself further, especially when I am alone with the children for another 2 weeks and last time I was on crutches for a few weeks and unable to pick DD up at all so needed constant help.

So...AIBU? I'm fully prepared to try and get the car out for Friday when I am usually due in but until then I'd prefer to stay put and hope the road clears. The temperatures look horribly cold for a while now so ice is a real problem. I have gone above and beyond working well past my usual hours whilst working from home so I'm not being work shy, I just don't feel happy with these circumstances, but I also feel horribly guilty and that they must think I'm taking the mick since I do live a 25 minute walk away. If DH was here, I would walk (and just be desperately careful to not slip) but he isn't and I have no one else (and also lockdown!)

YABU - you should get over it and walk/drive to help the school, it's only snow and ice and the kids can wear a coat
YANBU - stay home until your usual day and don't feel guilty, it's not fair to walk the kids in such cold/icy weather

Hope I've given enough info!

Just say no! It's not your day to be in.

Sorry - should say I have said no already, but now I'm consumed with guilt! I think the idea is everyone is "doing their fair share" and I haven't been in yet this week (would have usually been due on Monday but DD was actually poorly all weekend so I'd already called in before the snow and worked from home that day too)

Taxi?

It's one mile & I would take any excuse to get out of house myself.
I'm not saying yabu or yanbu, but come on... it's one mile.

I am also in East Anglia with lots of snow drifts. One mile is not that bad.

We are planning a fun walk outside, might be 2 hours worth, in about an hour, actually.

Can you walk but with dd in a buggy. You can wrap her up and use it to steady yourself

Its only 1 mile 😳

If it's not your day to work then it's not unreasonable say no.

I'm in East Anglia too. There's no ice here yet.
It's only a mile. I'd do it I think.

I'd walk.

1 mile, I'd do it.

You should decline because you don't have childcare in place to come in on a day off. I agree though, a mile in the snow is no biggie

Go in to work with your kids all day? A 1 year old?

1 mile is really not very far so I will say YABU. I imagine if schools were open to all as usual then children living that distance away would be expected to get in?

Should have said, agree snow no biggie though, that's not a reason to not go in.

Who would look after your children while you are at work?

Haven't you got a big coat and walking boots, or don't they sell them that far down south? ;-)

I was scheduled to work in school tomorrow morning in Felixstowe but I have gotten someone to cover it. I didn't feel comfortable driving from Ipswich with how the roads are. I do feel guilty but I want to be safe. I also live somewhere where an accident on the Orwell Bridge stops you going anywhere 😅

I voted YABU as 1 mile in a car is barely enough time To have put your seatbelt on. Even 2 miles driving slowly in slushy snow would take you all of 15 mins.

However as it’s not your day in and you would have had to take your children in YANBU to have said no

Also in East Anglia and guessing where you are is much like we have here - sounds like it.

It IS only one mile...but that's a long way with icy slush underfoot and 2 children. Especially with a bad back.

I would also not be happy at taking my children into a bubble at school and exposing them to potentially asymptomatic children - and with key worker children, there is a high potential for them to have been exposed via their parents. I know you go in, but you're able to keep yourself as safe as possible, shower and change before seeing your children at home etc. It's different from dropping them in it. Did you say you have a one year old too? Can't even begin to see how that would work.

For a myriad of reasons, you have absolutely done the right thing.

Plus if you have no childcare then you cannot get in.

@birdling

Who would look after your children while you are at work?

This is the important piece of information missing. You can't take a 1 year in and be expected to work.

Get yer big coat out lass.

It's a mile so an easy walk, and a lovely adventure for your DCs. Wrap them up warm and enjoy

Thing is people saying it's just a mile are assuming you can actually get the car out. I'm on a hill which isn't gritted. I couldn't get the car out today. No one has moved their cars on the street.

Also the pavements aren't gritted either so walking would be lethal. You know what is safe op.