Students at Highland High School in Gilbert got an unexpected day off earlier today, as a power outage shut down the school for the day. According to ABC15, the outage was caused by "SRP issues" that emerged yesterday, leading to the cancellation of today's classes. A message from the school indicated that SRP, together with their operations team and technicians, were "continuing to work to ensure our campus will be ready for our students and staff tomorrow morning."
Meanwhile, several other schools in the Hudson Valley region were grappling with severe winter weather conditions, with many announcing delays and closures. For example, ACDS-Westchester and Los Ninos Valhalla opted to close for the day while others such as Ardsley and Brewster announced a 2-hour delay; this amidst rain, snow, high winds, and potential flooding that threatened the routine of many academic institutions, as reported by Patch.
At Highland High School, The power outage issue, attributed to a failed transformer, was expected to be resolved later Wednesday morning. No widespread power disruption was reported by Salt River Project (SRP), the electric utility company handling the incident.
Over in the Hudson Valley, the list of academic adjustments due to the storm is extensive. Irvington, Kingston City Schools, and Saint Eugene School, among numerous others, are instituting a 2-hour delay in an effort to stay ahead of the storm's impact, the cold and the chaos that such weather invariably carries into the lives of staff, students, and their families. The Ursuline School, Westchester School for Special Children, and West Street Childcare Learning Center decided on delayed starts, hedging against the storm's erosive might, as per details shared by Patch.
