Harford County Public Schools Closed Wednesday
Snow is in the forecast Wednesday in Harford County.
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UPDATED (6 a.m.)—Harford County Public Schools will be closed Wednesday due to a winter storm.
Harford Community College is also closed.
In an email around 4:45 a.m., Harford County Public Schools spokesperson Teri Kranefeld said, "Essential Personnel should await further instructions before reporting for duty."
Employees are on Code Green, Kranefeld said, which means offices are also closed.
Harford County government was anticipating about 4 to 6 inches of "heavy, wet snow," it said in a call to residents Tuesday evening. The county's emergency operations center was slated to activate at 8 a.m. Wednesday to help prepare for issues related to the storm.
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John Carroll School, which by policy follows the local jurisdiction's ruling on inclement weather, and Harford Day School are also closed Wednesday.
Schools in Baltimore County—including some private schools and colleges—and Cecil County were also closed Wednesday.
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Harford County Board of Education
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John Carroll School
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markus ringgold
6:54 am on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Is not snow yet
markus ringgold
6:55 am on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Is not snow yeah so yeah
Terry
9:23 am on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
My neighbor teachers knew there would be no school yesterday afternoon before storm even showed up......Good thing it's kinda here then............
Shan
1:52 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
It is beyond crazy how school is cancelled so quickly. It is the afternoon and all Bel Air has seen is rain?? Seriously! Just a few years back I remember being in school WHILE it was snowing...such a huge concept nowadays it seems. We all still got home at the end of the day, in one piece. Why is the school systems so quick to cancel now?
franking
2:29 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
If I were the one making the call I would have closed schools, today. It would have been crazy to send them in the weather that was predicted. The meteorologists got it wrong, not HC schools.
shari b
7:02 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
well at least the grocery stores and hardware stores made a profit last night. people like me were buying like crazy.......
DacOc
7:28 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Well, if the school's didn't close then a bunch of people would be very angry about them being in school while inches of snow comes down on the road.. I'm sure everyone here knows how bad Harford County is now for driving in snow. When I went to school, they didn't close until there was inches of snow on the ground and it was a non-issue.
I like to think of this situation as part of the nanny state. Someone laughed at me when I told them in 10 years schools will have a Designated Shoe Lace Tie Coordination Employee, because children who cannot tie their own shoes will do it incorrectly, trip and fall, and liability/lawsuit will follow. Amirite?
shari b
7:53 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
so true! i have a teenager and a pre teen who avoid shoes with laces just for that reason. no matter how much i tried, they did'nt want to learn. too many shoes without. worse than that, i only have one out of 4 kids that can read an anolog clock! and try ever saying " i'll pick you up at quarter after 4, or quarter before 4." they have no clue what i mean! i have to say 4:15, or 4:45. what's this world coming to???