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Collected Item: “Trapped With a View”

Give your story a title.

Trapped With a View

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Video of Rocky Mountains in Vail, Colorado

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

When the entire country first started shutting down in March, I was forced to pack up everything I own, and drive from my college in Illinois, to my home in California, alone. I got stranded in a blizzard in Colorado and was run off the road. A kind family took me in until the blizzard passed, and let me stay in their basement until the roads cleared the next morning. This was the view from their backyard.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

Vail, Colorado, Rockies, blizzard, COVID, travel, pandemic, college, roadtrip

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Mason Decker

Give this story a date.

2020-03-12
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