Marching band stuck in snow finally back home  1:03 AM, Dec 31,
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Charles, MO (KSDK) - After a long five days of being gone, the
Francis Howell High School Marching Band is back home. Their
journey to the Alamo bowl included getting stranded on a bus in
the middle of Arkansas.  The reunion Sunday afternoon was warm
and welcoming. A group of parents waiting in the parking lot,
ecstatic that their kids were home safe and sound with some even
cheering and clapping as the buses pulled up.  "We were worried
there was a big long delay and I'm glad they are home safe and
sound," says Rita Sanders, mother of Sean, a band member.  That
feeling is shared amongst the parents and kids themselves.  Sean
Sanders says being stranded for 12 hours was not fun. Two
charter bus fulls of students and chaperones were heading for a
performance at the Alamo bowl in Texas but got stuck in Arkansas
in a snow storm.  So what did they do? Played card games, slept,
ate snacks, bu