Why are Douglas County Schools in Georgia closed?
Flooding claims 2 lives, closes schools in region By Staff And Wire Reports | Athens Banner-Herald | Story updated at on Periodic deluges that continued over the weekend forced authorities to closed road and schools around Northeast Georgia today due to flooding that claimed two motorists’ lives in metro Atlanta. Schools in nearby Gwinnett and Stephens counties were closed by bad weather and the National Weather Service issued a flood warning this morning for the Oconee River near Penfield in Greene County. Emergency workers in Lawrenceville found a woman dead in her vehicle, which was submerged in water after having been swept from the road by flooding, said Capt. Thomas Rutledge of the Gwinnett County Fire and Emergency Services. “In my 22 years in the fire department here in Gwinnett we have not experienced flooding to this degree,” Rutledge said. Dena Brummer of the Georgia Emergency Management Agency says that another person died in Douglas County after a vehicle was washed off th
● Despite closures in its surrounding county, Marietta city schools re-opened Wednesday with no problems reported. ” Everything went fine,” spokesman Thomas Algarin said. “We’re forunate.” ● Cobb County schools remained closed Wednesday, although school officials began to move furniture and materials from the system’s ware Classes are back to normal for students in several major metro counties including Fulton, Gwinnett and DeKalb, but some of the schools hit hardest in this week’s floods remain closed. ● Paulding County: All campuses are closed Thursday for students. Employees are to report at 8 a.m. School officials said significant road closures and the county-issued boil water advisory remained an obstacle to reopening schools. ● Douglas County: Schools will be closed for the rest of the week, as they have been since Tuesday. The decision was made after talks Wednesday afternoon with public safety and water authority officials. The county is also under a boil water advisory, and ex
Though other Atlanta-area schools have re-opened, schools in Douglas County, Georgia will be continue to be closed for the rest of the week. Because of heavy flooding, the schools have been closed since Tuesday, September 22nd. Public safety and water authority officials made this decision. The county is under a boil water advisory and has seen damage to roads, bridges, and water mains. Sources: http://www.ajc.com/news/douglas-and-paulding-schools-144979.
