Editorial: It was understandable that Fayette County Public Schools closed buildings last week amid extreme cold and snow. But when weather improves, why are schools still closed?
a little bit better today with just over a third canceled but significant travel issues threw the carolinas. this is why. you see this slick ice on the ground, you can hear it, a little bit of snow on top but throughout the state, ice, freezing rain, sleet, fell all day on sunday. there was snow afterward and the western part of the state in the mountains they were completely dumped on with snow but that ice has caused traffic snarls all throughout the state. the roads here in charlotte the main thorough fares have been cleared off. we saw the plows out this morning, resalting the roads. the concern of course is a refreeze. they had more than 400 traffic collisions that they had to across the state respond to yesterday. they re asking people still to kind of stay off the roads especially those neighborhood roads, the secondary roads because jim, due to staffing issues across the state, they ve said it may take longer to clear some of those roads, just because they don t have enough peo
into texas as a category-1 hurricane more than 90-mile-an-hour winds knocked out power to 500,000 texans its storm surge ripping asphalts right off neighborhood roads. my windows were vibrating. my house was shaking and for a minute there, i did get a little nervous reporter: nicholas drenching galveston in 13 inches of rain, swallowing streets whole. in neighboring houston, where high water rescue equipment was ready we were prepared, but quite frankly we were blessed reporter: a sigh of relief as nicholas turned east, taking aim at louisiana, now bracing for its second tropical system in just two weeks hurricane ida devastated the region, leaving more than a million without power. now nicholas is expected to crawl across several southern states over the next few days, forecast to bring near nonstop rain to already battered communities. of the 19 storms that have struck the u.s. since last year, this one, the ninth to hit texas or louisiana one of the most distressing part