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Several schools in South Hampton Roads are closed again today because of continued icy road conditions.
Chesapeake Public Schools are closed, although 12-month employees were to report. Feb. 15, scheduled as a holiday, will become a full instructional day for students and staff. Middle school career night has been rescheduled for Feb. 9.
Franklin City Schools are closed. Faculty and staff reported two hours late.
Hampton City Schools are closed. Twelve-month employees reported on a two-hour delay.
Isle of Wight County Schools are closed. Twelve-month employees reported as scheduled.
Newport News Public Schools are closed.
Norfolk Public Schools were to open on a two-hour delay.
Portsmouth Public Schools were to open on a two-hour delay, according to WVEC-TV.
Suffolk Public Schools are closed.
Virginia Beach City Public Schools were on a two-hour delay for all schools and offices.
Williamsburg-James City County Public Schools are closed.
York County School Division is closed. Teachers and 12-month employees reported on a two-hour delay.
NORTH CAROLINA
Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools were to open. Feb. 15, originally a scheduled teacher workday, will be the make-up day for school missed Monday.
Gates County Schools opened two hours late.
Hertford County Public Schools are closed. Twelve-month employees were on a one-hour delay.
For more details, return to PilotOnline.com later and read tomorrow's Virginian-Pilot.
Other weather-related alerts:
Chesapeake trash and recycling collection days have been changed for the week. Monday collections will take place today, Tuesday collections Thursday, Thursday collections Friday and Friday collections on Saturday. Very limited bulk-waste collections will be made this week.
Suffolk has closed Cedar Hill Cemetery, on Main Street, to visitors. The closure was necessary due in part to the narrow paths, which do not allow for snow-plow clearing. Also, walking when the pathways are covered with ice and snow can be extremely dangerous. Should a burial need arise during the closure, city staff will work with the funeral home and family to accommodate. The Department of Public Works plans to reopen the cemetery as soon as it is safely possible.
Virginia Beach will reopen Mount Trashmore Park today, but golf courses will remain closed.
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School Not Being In Today
Finally saw a snow plow come by my daughter's house in Suffolk this morning but one had apparently been by since there was snow piled up on the sides of the roads in the development. To me that is sort of like shutting the barn door after the horse has already gotten out. Why send a snow plow into a development that has already had one go through when other areas apparently hadn't even had one go through?
Chesapeake jumps the gun AGAIN!
Good job Va Beach and Norfolk for waiting to delay school. Now if you can talk some sense into Chesapeake school system. The roads are not even bad. Now here is a thought! (1) Either delay the start of classes for 2 hours or (2) Cancel bus services for the morning and have the parents get there child to school. If the child can not get a ride in, then they just don't go. Man, growing up in the burgh, it didn't matter how much snow is on the ground. School was in session regardless of weather. Buses ran. If the cities would budget and plow and salt the secondary roads, this wouldn't be an issue. Stop relying on VDOT to do your jobs. Again, nice job Va Beach and Norfolk. You set the bar high!
school closings and snow or lack of it
Burgh is different than Chesapeake,Norfolk and Virginia Beach. Given the rare event of snow in the Tidewater area , it would be irresponsible of VDOT and city officials to pump money into snow removal equiptment. For the three or four times it would be used in 25 years , it is not cost effective. I grew up in northern NY, lived in Virginia Beach for 25+ years. For many years I drove from the beach to work in Chesapeake. I called my husband to say I was leaving work. It would be raining , power out and a fierce storm in Chesapeake. My husband would laugh as the oceanfront would be sunny and he was grilling. I would hit where 64 meets 44 east, pardon me 264 east, around the Newtown Road exit and sure enough the sun was shinig and the road was dry. Weather patterns are extreme in Hampton Roads.
P.S. Northerners don't go out in snow like they used too. And they don't play outside in winter like they used too. I know. I live up north now.
Really?
I have news for your, this isn't the "burgh". I'm glad you Northerner's hometowns don't close because of snow. I'm pretty sure the reason being is that snow is a regular weather event up there. Well it isn't down here. So please stop comparing your hometown with this area, it's two DIFFERENT areas with two DIFFERENT ways of life.
Yes Really
Yes it is a regular event up north, but the boroughs, townshps, and cities take care of there roads on their own budgets. You must be one of those parents that when your child sneezes once, oh keep him/her out of school for the sniffles. Problem and fact is the federal government pumps a ton of money in Va., So what is the state/cities doing to help the cause, nothing. Wow! closing school because of a few little inches of snow.Big deal!!!!!!!!!
more plows?
If you want to throw your money away, sure....raise taxes to keep more plows on standby for the next time they'll be needed. I lived in Virginia Beach for 29 years, and we could've used the plows a total of TWICE in those 29 years. That area doesn't get enough snow to warrant having ANY trucks around. I assume you mean you're from Pittsburgh? They don't close schools, etc. unless they feel it's too much snow to handle in the amount of time they need to get it done, for everyone to be safe. They probably have more than one plow. Just like here in the Midwest, they have the equipment, because it gets USED. There's a ratio of typical snowfall in the area to the number of plows/amount of salt mix on hand. Think about it. It costs money.
No matter what decision
I think Chesapeake did the right thing in making the decision to close schools.
I will tell you the school boards are darned if they do and darned if they don't.
If they would have had school and something happened,(or not) OH GEEZ, can't you hear the people now!
Good job Chesapeake for your EARLY decision to keep children and staff safe!
The schools are not there for your babysitting needs. They are there to learn and teach.
Let's Think of the Safety of Our Children!
That should really be our first priority here. Let's stop complaining about the district(s) making the wrong decision to close schools due to the remaining ice on the roads. I, for one, don't want my kids at the mercy of some crazed, "I'm going to be late" daredevil. Even the most cautious driving bus driver can encounter said daredevil who decides to risk all 40+ kids on the bus by zipping and zooming over slick and icy roads. How often do we get the type weather situation we experienced over the weekend?? Yes our kids need to be in school, but if they have to make up their days or possibly go on a Saturday,I would rather that than have them harmed.
Bus crashes, killing two..or 2 high school students, dead.
Is that the kind of headlines you guys want to see? Seriously. The school systems only have your child's best interest in mind. The very same parents that are crying for schools to be open are the same ones that will sue if their child is injured slipping on ice while walking to school or worse..getting into an accident. Some parking lots and sidewalks in the neighborhoods are still icy/slushy. The adjusted dismissal in VB is because the high school kids are taking exams. It was always the plan. Yes, school is important, but not worth risking the lives of our children. Life is full of little inconveniences. You deal with them and move on. I've seen the way some of these bus drivers drive on dry roads, it's scary to think how well they can handle wet slushy ones or icy parking lots. With it being barely above freezing at 36, do you really want to take the chance that the temps drop and turn the roads to black ice?
Returning to School
My daughter has two little girls who go to school in Suffolk. She got the call that they were not going to have school on Wednesday. According to what the robo call she received said: there will be no school because it is too dangerous for the buses to pick up children in subdivisions due to the fact there is still ice on the roads of those subdivisions. My daughter has to go to school herself in Newport News and her husband is Navy and they have to return to their life as it was before the snow storm. Seems to me someone wasn't thinking ahead very well. Also, now the children might have to go on Saturdays to make up for all these missed days.