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Rockingham Cancels Classes
City On Two-Hour Delay
Posted: March 7, 2013
HARRISONBURG — Rockingham County Schools will be closed Friday and Harrisonburg City Schools will operate on a two-hour delay due to lingering conditions from Wednesday’s snowstorm, superintendents say.
County Superintendent Carol Fenn said some roads remain “treacherous” and administrators didn’t feel comfortable sending buses out to maneuver them.
“We worked really hard today to try to make it possible to go to school,” Fenn said, adding that the east side of the county got the worst of the storm, with roads around Elkton particularly dangerous and many residents who were still without power as of late Thursday.
“[Virginia Department of Transportation] has done an excellent job and we thank them for their excellent work,” she said Thursday evening. “We just don’t feel comfortable putting our children on some of those treacherous roads tomorrow morning.”
Harrisonburg Superintendent Scott Kizner said division administrators expect black ice to continue to cling to some city roads Friday morning, one of the reasons for the delay, as well as bus stop areas that are littered with snow.
“People still haven’t shoveled around the bus stop areas [and] we want students to be out when it’s light outside,” he said.
County Superintendent Carol Fenn said some roads remain “treacherous” and administrators didn’t feel comfortable sending buses out to maneuver them.
“We worked really hard today to try to make it possible to go to school,” Fenn said, adding that the east side of the county got the worst of the storm, with roads around Elkton particularly dangerous and many residents who were still without power as of late Thursday.
“[Virginia Department of Transportation] has done an excellent job and we thank them for their excellent work,” she said Thursday evening. “We just don’t feel comfortable putting our children on some of those treacherous roads tomorrow morning.”
Harrisonburg Superintendent Scott Kizner said division administrators expect black ice to continue to cling to some city roads Friday morning, one of the reasons for the delay, as well as bus stop areas that are littered with snow.
“People still haven’t shoveled around the bus stop areas [and] we want students to be out when it’s light outside,” he said.
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