[UPDATE 10:13 a.m.] Several Schools Closed Today

Several school districts are closing today after snow fell across much of the region. Here’s the one’s we know of as of 7:20 a.m.

•  Mountain Valley Unified School District
• Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified School District
•  Southern Humboldt Unified School District

UPDATE 7:40 a.m.: Leggett School is also closed.
UPDATE 9:18 a.m.: College of the Redwoods says, “The Klamath-Trinity educational site is experiencing a temporary closure (classes cancelled and all meetings suspended) while power is out. We will send further information when the power is back up and classes resume. This does not effect the Eureka or Del Norte campuses.”

UPDATE 10:13 a.m.: The superintendent of Kneeland says,

Kneeland School will be closed today, January 16th.

Gentle reminder…there is no trespassing on a closed school campus and our campus has had significant vandalizing already this year by folks wanting to play in the snow. We had a water pipe broken and not reported which drained the system, so we lost ten thousand gallons of water and the school and students were measurably impacted while repairs and state law mandated treatments were reinstated. Please, ask for permission before entering the locked and secured school campus.
Also, as a side note, it is really unsafe for cars to attempt to park on the street. Most folks who live on the mountain drive 4WD, large, heavy vehicles in order to make it out. It’s unsafe when we come around a corner and the road suddenly goes from a narrow, two-lane road, to an encumbered, half-lane road with smaller cars parked on the plowed street because people don’t want to get stuck in the snow. Please, be safe!!