Super Special #7 - Snowbound

Plot
Stoneybrook has had a lot of snow in the forecast lately...but no snow. So when a huge storm is predicted, no one believes it. So everyone just goes about their lives...and then the snow starts. And keeps going. And going. And going. Two and a half feet of snow fall, and every baby-sitter is affected in some dramatic way.

There is a write up in the paper about it, but Kristy doesn't think it has a personal touch to it. She offers to write a new article about her and all of the BSC member's experience with the blizzard.

Highlights

• Claudia is babysitting the Perkins' family and has to stay overnight when the parents can't get home. Her's is probably the most boring story. 
• Mallory and MaryAnne are doing a "babysitting marathon" where MA comes and spends the night at the Pike's so the parents can leave for a day in New York at 5am. She and Mallory get the kids ready for school, go to school, and then MA is supposed to spend the night again bc the parents won't be home until like midnight. However....the storm hits in the evening, and the parents can't come home at all. Somehow, a family of ten people is also almost completely out of food, so Logan skiis over the next morning with supplies. 
• Jessi is at her dance lesson, and her dad is supposed to pick up her 11 year old boyfriend Quint at the train station, then pick her up so they can go home. But her dad can't make it - so Quint WALKS IN A BLIZZARD to the dance school, where they stay the night. 
• Kristy decides to invite Bart over, who gets stuck there and has to spend the night. Even though Bart knows exactly what she looks like, for some reason she decides she can't just look normal in the morning, so she gets up early to shower, shave her legs (for the first time), curl her hair (for the first time) and wear makeup. 
• Dawn and her mom are on their way to the airport to get her brother when the storm hits. Jeff gets rerouted to Washington DC, and Dawn and her mom have to spend the night in the airport. 
• Stacey's story is the most annoying. She convinces her mom to take her to this mall like 30 miles outside of Stoneybrook to get a perm. Then, of course, they get stranded in the car on the way back. They run out of gas. That's responsible, Stacey's mom. Then a stranger comes by to help them, which is scary but dying in the car is scarier, so they go home with them. It ends up being a lovely little couple with a little boy. 
• I understand not really believing the forecast but seriously..........................they all should have just stayed home that night. They were calling for heavy snow, you dumb fucks. 
• I remember really loving this book as a kid.