Cancellations, Other Closings - Updated 6:25 A.M.

By WYDaily Staff Thursday, February 11, 2010

Strong winds and cold conditions after Wednesday's freak snow event have led to some cancellations.

The Willamsburg-James City County School Division will open on its regular schedule Thursday.

Wetlands and Chesapeake Bay Board Meeting Canceled - Due to weather conditions, the meeting, scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday, has been postponed.  The meeting is rescheduled for tonight, Thursday, Feb. 11, at Building F of the County Complex.

Bay Rivers District Indoor Track Meet Canceled - Rescheduled because of weather for Thursday at the Boo Williams Complex, the event will not be rescheduled.  The regional track meet will take place as scheduled on Wednesday, February 17th.

James City County Office and Community Center to open Thursday at 9 a. m. - Due to the possibility of hazardous driving conditions resulting from today’s snow, James City County Offices and the James City/Williamsburg Community Center will open at 9 a.m., Thursday, February 11.

Curbside recycling collections for the VPPSA regional program were suspended for Wednesday, Feb. 10, due to severe weather conditions.  The canceled service affects residents of James City County, the City of Williamsburg and York County. There will be no make-up day for Wednesday collections. Residents who do not receive recycling services today are asked to place their materials out for collection next Wednesday. Any extra materials may be placed in open containers or paper bags; please do not use plastic bags.

Bay Rivers District Swimming Championships rescheduled - Preliminaries were scheduled for Thursday, with finals Friday night at the Fort Eustis Aquatic Center. The new schedule puts preliminaries on Friday at 5 p.m., and the finals will begin Saturday at 1 p.m. Warmups will begin about an hour earlier on both days.

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+3 #12 Guest 2010-02-11 08:03

[quote name="jerry"]He y Mr Citizen, What was the reason for the 40 miles you drove?
I am fortunate to have a job, even if it is too far away. As far as Yankee attitude, I am actually Southern born and bred. However, I just get more than a little frustrated with the chicken Little attitude many of my fellow southerners adopt when so much as a heavy frost hits the ground.
Don't make unnecessary trips (true regardless of the weather), increase following distance, and go easy on the brakes. Yesterday's cancellation endangered the kids far more than if they just kept them in school and let them out at the normal time. When I drove 40 miles back in the afternoon yesterday, the roads were bone dry.

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-3 #11 Guest 2010-02-10 18:23

Hey Mr Citizen, What was the reason for the 40 miles you drove? Were they for a cause such as Meals on Wheels or just to prove you could. I repeat... Go back to Buffalo and relieve us from your Yankee attitude.

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+10 #10 Guest 2010-02-10 15:28

If the schools would have held off U-turning the buses back home this morning and instead kept the kids in school, they would have had safe, sun-thawed roads. Thanks to poor decision making by the administration, my kids got two trips on icy roads instead of one. Some kids got three trips because their parents were not home.
A mere glance at the Doppler would have shown this snow squall to be a short-term event followed by clear skies and warmer temps.

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+7 #9 Guest 2010-02-10 15:18

Folks around here apparently think they are still in NY, NJ, CT, NH, PA, OH, MI and all those other lovely states that are prepared for winter with plenty of plows, sand, and salt.

REALITY CHECK! You're in Hampton Roads! We're not prepared for this stuff so you need to slow down, back off and relax. You'll get to where you're trying to go.

Eventually.

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0 #8 Guest 2010-02-10 11:11

We tried to go from Ford's Colony to Grove Christian Outreach Center. Longhill Road from Old Towne to Ironbound is a solid sheet of ice. Traffic going west was bumper to bumper and barely moving. I don't know where the author of comment # 2 was driving.

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0 #7 Guest 2010-02-10 10:55

[quote name="Citizen #2"]To the citizen that thinks cancellation is ridiculous. I want my child safe and sound.... have you driven the roads lately??

You bet. I drove 40 miles in it today, both on back roads and the interstate. No problems. How is it safer to bus the kids to school, send them home again, and then bring those kids whose parents are not home back to school, and then send them back home yet again?
By the time 3:00 rolls around, and temps climb into the 40s, I believe transportation issues would have been minimal.
A hyper obsession with safety does not necessarily net the desired safe results.

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0 #6 Guest 2010-02-10 10:41

hmmm ...did not see any snow plows...

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-2 #5 Guest 2010-02-10 10:36

To the citizen that thinks cancellation is ridiculous. I want my child safe and sound.... have you driven the roads lately?? There is a 10 car pile up on the interstate thus shutting it down northbound due to slick roads, cars have ran off the road in Williamsburg... I suggest you go try your luck out on the roads... The streets are more than just wet!!!

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+6 #4 Guest 2010-02-10 10:35

and I hope Mr. Citizen, that a Bluebird Bus takes you back to Buffalo

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+12 #3 Guest 2010-02-10 10:12

It was pretty bad out there. Our bus driver had the sense to just pull over, stop the bus, and wait it out. She said she could not see to drive, so she wasn't going to drive. She just sat there until they told her to take the kids home.
My compliments to her for making the safe choice for our kids!

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