'Kids Home, Send Help': Dad finds inventive way to write plea on snow day

LINN, Mo. -- One dad found a creative and funny way to ask for relief after a winter storm in Linn, Missouri, prompted a school snow day on Friday.

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Lola Parsons of Conception Bay South in Newfoundland, Canada, told AccuWeather that she left a car window down during a snow storm. The vehicle filled with nearly two feet of snow, and she had to dig it out by hand.

"Snow Day, Kids Home, Send Help," Eric Morfield wrote in the snow as he filmed his plea using a drone video.

According to reports from the National Weather Service, some areas of central Missouri got up to seven inches of snow on Friday.

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