Ice Crippled

I hope this is the right place. I live in Western, NC (mountains) and today we had a variety of winter mix roll in. The local news station foretasted snow this am, then ice this afternoon and finally rain with slightly warmer temps after 6 pm. They blew the call. By 7:00 the rain had turned to ice. Then, my son called and said that his evening CC class had let out early and that he was stuck on the feeder road to our small subdivision. The entrance to our subdivision is short, but steep and had become a bottle neck with sliding cars. My plan was to walk down to the entrance, jump in, turn around and park the car back up the road in an empty field and walk back home. I put on boots and headed out. 25 ft down the road I fell and hurt my back. I couldn't walk down my street! I had to walk the rest of the way through icy yards and driveways. Once at the entrance, I literally had to sit on my butt and slide down to the main road. Chaos! The road was a parking lot. I walked on the shoulder of the road for traction, and eventually reached my son. OK, long story short:

We turned the car around got it parked in an open field.
We walked on the should of the road toward home and were almost crushed by cars sliding backwards and running off the road.
We decided to leave the road and take a walking trail to the back of our subdivision and home.
A 400 yrd walk to home ended up being a mile and took almost an hour.
We got off the trail and headed across the street to home, only to be met by my upset wife and younger son who was holding a towel on a gash above his eye.
He had gone out side to look down the street, fell, and split his eyebrow open.
He needed stitches, but we weren't going anywhere any time soon. I have an good first aid kit and steri stripped him up.

So, my point is..... things can go south so quick! Tomorrow, I'm ordering rubber slip on cleats for the family. I'm a well pretty squared away individual , but really felt helpless tonight.

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Ice Crippled