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On your cell phone or if you have a Roku or Amazon Fire streaming device connected to your TV, the Cox Media stations have very good live streaming news apps from their stations in Charlotte, Atlanta, and Orlando which have all had very good coverage of Hurricane Irma. Download WSOC-TV Channel 9 Eyewitness News from Charlotte, WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News from Atlanta, and WFTV Channel 9 Eyewitness News from Orlando. All of these stations have had very good coverage from across the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. WFTV has had the live streams from Orlando where the storm is having the initial impact in Florida. Also WYFF-4 here in Greenville has featured coverage from their Hearst sister station WESH-2 in Orlando.
Along with all the other Upstate counties (Anderson, Pickens, Spartanburg, etc.).
IMO, it's pretty dumb to close schools for a forecast of 2-3 inches of rain with 20-30 mph winds. The average frontal system often brings more severe conditions than we are likely to see from this storm.
IMO, it's pretty dumb to close schools for a forecast of 2-3 inches of rain with 20-30 mph winds. The average frontal system often brings more severe conditions than we are likely to see from this storm.
well, my office is closed due to Irma (although this decision was made late last week) -
Greenville County Schools gave a good explanation as to why they closed today:
"Forecast winds in excess of 30 miles per hour will exceed limits for the safe operation of school buses and other high profile vehicles...Combined with significant rainfall, the wind is expected to cause downed trees and flying debris, which will lead to widespread power outages and dangerous travel conditions. The three-hour window needed to safely deliver bus riders to their homes, in combination with the imprecise science of weather forecasting, prevents us from attending for a half day."
so far, I've had very little rain but wind gusts have been up to 30 mph
well, my office is closed due to Irma (although this decision was made late last week) -
Greenville County Schools gave a good explanation as to why they closed today:
"Forecast winds in excess of 30 miles per hour will exceed limits for the safe operation of school buses and other high profile vehicles...Combined with significant rainfall, the wind is expected to cause downed trees and flying debris, which will lead to widespread power outages and dangerous travel conditions. The three-hour window needed to safely deliver bus riders to their homes, in combination with the imprecise science of weather forecasting, prevents us from attending for a half day."
so far, I've had very little rain but wind gusts have been up to 30 mph
The winds we get out of this storm are no worse than winds from many frontal systems that come through our area on a routine basis. I continue to think closing schools was a dumb call based on the forecast available when the decision was made yesterday.
The winds we get out of this storm are no worse than winds from many frontal systems that come through our area on a routine basis. I continue to think closing schools was a dumb call based on the forecast available when the decision was made yesterday.
You do realize it's affecting more than Greenville right? Public and private schools and colleges all across the state are closed. Aiken is the only place in the state I've seen that has some schools open.
It's supposed to get worse later today, why put people on the roads? Two officers in Florida died that way. It's better to be safe than sorry.
You do realize it's affecting more than Greenville right? Public and private schools and colleges all across the state are closed. Aiken is the only place in the state I've seen that has some schools open.
It's supposed to get worse later today, why put people on the roads? Two officers in Florida died that way. It's better to be safe than sorry.
Based on that logic, we should permanently close all schools. Better to be safe than sorry.
This storm is less hazardous than the average frontal system that comes through our area. Just because a lot of school systems made a stupid decision does not mean it was the correct decision.
Based on that logic, we should permanently close all schools. Better to be safe than sorry.
This storm is less hazardous than the average frontal system that comes through our area. Just because a lot of school systems made a stupid decision does not mean it was the correct decision.
Not really average, but nobody said you couldn't drop your kids off at school. Just enjoy the day off. All the state's schools are shut down today, no reason for Greenville to be an oddball.
The big difference between those frontal systems and this storm is that those frontal systems move through much quicker. They don't have sustained winds of 30+mph lasting for several hours. In today's lawsuit happy environment, the schools made the right decision IMO.
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