She added, “due to the snow prediction, cold temperatures, bus driver shortage and inconvenience to families with last-minute early dismissals, the Edgewood City School District will close tomorrow.”
The Talawanda School District has also announced closure early Thursday.
By Thursday night, Middletown, Hamilton, Fairfield, Madison and Lakota school districts all announced closure due to the predicted 3 to 4 inches of snowfall expected to begin about mid day.
Public works crews in the region are regrouping as snow plow operators get rest and crews clean and repair equipment and snow plows. Drivers and trucks had been rotating plowing the streets since Sunday morning until after the snow ended Monday.
A few inches of new snow was expected on the ground by the evening commute, reported Jennifer Ketchmark, a meteorologist with our news partners at WCPO.
Middletown Public Works Director Scott Tadych said it is a repeat of Sunday.
The frigid temperatures the have cause ice conditions and prevented any melting of the last snow event is creating some challenges, he said.
“Especially in the intersections and some cul-de-sacs where they have to push the snow, in some cases there is just no where to put it,” Tadych said.
At the start of the week, the region was blasted with a winter storm of the likes the area hasn’t experienced in years. Nearly 10 inches fell over two days in early February 2021 and almost 11 inches fell in a two-day span in early March 2008.
Piles of slushy snow from this week’s historic two-day snow fall ― it’s seventh largest on record for Cincinnati ― are still on corners of intersections, at the mouths of cul-de-sacs and along the sides of streets. The below-freezing temperatures have prevented that snow from melting into culverts and storm sewers.
Staff Writer Michael D. Pitman contributed to his report
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