{"id":3303,"date":"2013-05-02T09:51:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T14:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2013-05-02T14:02:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T19:02:42","slug":"a-historic-snow-day-for-these-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/a-historic-snow-day-for-these-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"A historic snow day for these schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/globegazette.com\/news\/local\/spring-snow-surprise\/article_79deeadc-b32f-11e2-95aa-001a4bcf887a.html\">This picture shouldn&#8217;t have a May 2 date-stamp.<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.desmoinesregister.com\/dmr\/index.php\/2013\/05\/02\/snow-to-hit-des-moines-mid-morning\/article\">More reports here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope this week of weather is a real drought-buster.<\/p>\n<p>Based on TV stations&#8217; websites, there are multiple schools that cancelled classes today because of snow. Because this is historic, here&#8217;s a list of those I&#8217;ve seen: AGWSR, Algona, Audubon, Belmond-Klemme, Central Springs, Clarion-Goldfield, Clear Lake, Coon Rapids-Bayard, Dows, Eagle Grove, East Sac, Eldora-New Providence\/Hubbard-Radcliffe, Forest City, Fort Dodge, Garner-Hayfield\/Ventura, Glidden-Ralston, Griswold, Hampton-Dumont, Humboldt, IKM-Manning, Iowa Falls-Alden, Lake Mills, Manson NW Webster, Mason City, Newell-Fonda, North Iowa, Northeast Hamilton, Northwood-Kensett, Ogden, Osage, Panorama, Pocahontas Area\/Pomeroy-Palmer, Riceville, Rudd-Rockford-Marble Rock, South Central Calhoun, South Hamilton, Southeast Webster-Grand, St. Ansgar, Stratford, Storm Lake, Titonka, Twin Rivers, Webster City, West Bend-Mallard, West Fork, West Hancock.<\/p>\n<p>There also is a <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolalerts.iowa.gov\/ShowHome.do\">statewide website with listings<\/a>. According to the alerts there, ENP and HR really intended on having school:\u00a0&#8220;School is cancelled for South Hardin school and Hubbard-Radcliffe Elementary. Buses will be turned around and dropped back off at school.&#8221; Lake Mills admitted surrender: &#8220;Too much snow! LMCS closed today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy this, kids. It will be one of your weirdest snow days ever.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: And now, schools farther east are dismissing early. List includes Aplington-Parkersburg, Clarksville, Dike-New Hartford, Grundy Center, Murray, Nashua-Plainfield, North Butler, Tripoli, Waverly-Shell Rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This picture shouldn&#8217;t have a May 2 date-stamp.\u00a0More reports here. Let&#8217;s hope this week of weather is a real drought-buster. Based on TV stations&#8217; websites, there are multiple schools that cancelled classes today because of snow. Because this is historic, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/a-historic-snow-day-for-these-schools\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3303"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3312,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions\/3312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}