Post by Clipper on Feb 7, 2020 9:10:13 GMT -5
wcyb.com/weather/closings
There is a few flurries in the air this morning but it is 34 and climbing. The snow is accumulating in the higher elevations and making the mountain roads slick. The list of closings is long. ALL the schools in the area are closed. Many of our local school districts have been closed due to the flu striking so many students, teachers, and bus drivers. This morning, between the weather and the flu, literally every school district in the entire area has closed.
There is still some flooding issues. It never stopped raining until late last night or early this morning. We drove home from bowling in an absolute deluge so heavy that the wipers couldn't keep up and water was pooling on the interstate making driving dangerous. I got off and took the surface streets home.
Is the flu hitting the Utica/Rome and CNY area hard enough to close the schools? It seems to be especially bad around here this season. People are wearing masks in the stores and everywhere I go I encounter coughing, sneezing, nose blowing, and enough people exhibiting symptoms to make me paranoid. I am faithfully carrying my little dollar store bottles of Purell, washing my hands at every opportunity, keeping my hands away from my mouth and nose, and doing everything I can to avoid getting sick again after my recent bout of pneumonia and upper respiratory problems. Just count me among the Howie Mandell germaphobes, haha.
There is a few flurries in the air this morning but it is 34 and climbing. The snow is accumulating in the higher elevations and making the mountain roads slick. The list of closings is long. ALL the schools in the area are closed. Many of our local school districts have been closed due to the flu striking so many students, teachers, and bus drivers. This morning, between the weather and the flu, literally every school district in the entire area has closed.
There is still some flooding issues. It never stopped raining until late last night or early this morning. We drove home from bowling in an absolute deluge so heavy that the wipers couldn't keep up and water was pooling on the interstate making driving dangerous. I got off and took the surface streets home.
Is the flu hitting the Utica/Rome and CNY area hard enough to close the schools? It seems to be especially bad around here this season. People are wearing masks in the stores and everywhere I go I encounter coughing, sneezing, nose blowing, and enough people exhibiting symptoms to make me paranoid. I am faithfully carrying my little dollar store bottles of Purell, washing my hands at every opportunity, keeping my hands away from my mouth and nose, and doing everything I can to avoid getting sick again after my recent bout of pneumonia and upper respiratory problems. Just count me among the Howie Mandell germaphobes, haha.
I don't recall reading anywhere that there was a shortage of clean water and soap in NE Tennessee.