Snow days are piling up

Many factors go into decision to close school for bad weather

  • The Timber Lake School’s bus routes travel 536 miles of rural roads each day and are given heavy consideration when Supt. Dan Martin is determining whether or not to close school or delay classes due to severe weather or hazardous travel conditions. Photo by Jon Flatland
    The Timber Lake School’s bus routes travel 536 miles of rural roads each day and are given heavy consideration when Supt. Dan Martin is determining whether or not to close school or delay classes due to severe weather or hazardous travel conditions. Photo by Jon Flatland
    In the 1993 movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray plays Phil Connors, a cynical TV weatherman who becomes trapped in a time loop while covering the annual Groundhog Day event in Punxsutawney, PA, forcing him to relive Feb. 2 over and over again. Superintendents at area schools are beginning to relate to Murray’s character, only they’re reliving snow days by repeatedly having to cancel ...

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