Let it snow, let it snow
Don't plan on going to school Thursday. Not if this snow keeps up. That's the message coming out of school systems from across the Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama region that lie in the path of a winter storm that could drop several inches of the white stuff from the bus route to the front porches of school-age children for hundreds of miles in any direction. As temperatures and snow continue to fall in much of the area, local school systems - and parents - are preparing for another snow day tomorrow. Snow pictures are once again populating social media, with reports of accumulation and even impassable roads coming in from the surrounding region. Whether it's Tennessee's mountains or the lack of salt and brine trucks in Georgia and Alabama, going to school tomorrow could be dangerous, officials warn. As many as 7 inches of snow by Thursday morning has been forecast for several immediate areas. A winter storm warning will be in effect for East Tennessee through Thursday at 7 a.m., according to the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency. Tennessee remains at a Level 2 state of emergency, according to the latest release from TEMA. Though that's down from Feb. 16's Level 3 that led to at least 30 deaths statewide. Locally, The Salvation Army's emergency shelter again opened its doors to protect those with no shelter. Several local deaths from hypothermia have been reported over the span of this month's winter weather, including a homeless man who was found a block from the Community Kitchen last week. Report all closings to webeditor@timesfreepress.com
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Baylor School - closed Thursday *
Berry College - closed Thursday
Boyd Buchanan - closed Thursday *
Bradley County Schools - closed Thursday
Catoosa County Schools - closed Thursday
Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy - closed Thursday
Chickamauga City Schools - closed Thursday
Cleveland City Schools - closed Thursday
Cleveland State - closed Thursday *
Dade County Schools - closed Thursday *
Dalton Public Schools - closed Thursday *
DeKalb County Schools - closed Thursday
Fort Payne City Schools - closed Thursday
Georgia Northwestern Technical College - closed Thursday
Grace Baptist Academy - closed Thursday
Hamilton County Schools - closed Thursday
Marion County Schools - closed Thursday
Meigs County Schools - closed Thursday *
McMinn County Schools - closed Thursday
Murray County Schools - closed Thursday
Notre Dame - closed Thursday *
Polk County Schools - closed Thursday
Richard Hardy Memorial School - closed Thursday
Rhea County Schools - closed Thursday *
Rome City Schools - closed Thursday
Sequatchie County Schools - closed Thursday *
Silverdale Baptist Academy - closed Thursday *
Southern Adventist University - closed Thursday *
Sweetwater City Schools - closed Thursday *
UTC - closed Thursday *
Walker County Schools - closed Thursday
Whitfield County Schools - closed Thursday
Other cancellations:
All City of Chattanooga government offices will be closed Thursday, February 26, 2015. This includes the Downtown Public Library and branches.
The City of Chattanooga will push garbage collection back one day - Thursday collection will move to Friday and Friday collection will move to Saturday.
Public Works road clearing crews, public safety personnel, 311 operators, and other essential personnel will work as scheduled tomorrow. Nonessential personnel should not report to work.
Summerville city office - closed Thursday
Catoosa County board of education - work session canceled Thursday
Walker County Transit - closed Thursday
Walker County Government Offices - closed Thursday
City of Rome, Floyd County and The Rome-Floyd Parks and Recreation Authority announces administrative offices - closed Thursday
North Georgia Health District and Cherokee, Fannin, Gilmer, Murray, Pickens and Whitfield County Health Departments closed Thursday
The North Georgia Health District office in Dalton and Public Health Departments in Cherokee, Fannin, Gilmer, Murray, Pickens and Whitfield Counties are closed Thursday, February 26.
Health departments in Catoosa, Dade and Walker counties will be closed Thursday
CHI Memorial Medical Group Closings and Delays
Chattanooga, TN Due to inclement weather CHI Memorial Medical Group has closed the following physician practices. Effective for Thursday, February 26, 2015.
Delayed:
10 a.m.
* MaryEllen Locher Breast Center
* CHI Memorial Arthritis & Rheumatology
* CHI Memorial Primary Care Associates
* Harrison Medical Center
* Hixson Pike Medical Center
* Memorial Convenient Care
* Memorial GYN Plus
* Memorial Metabolic Surgery
* Memorial North Park Family Practice
* Memorial Robotics and Urologic Cancer
* Professional Park Associates
* Signal Mountain Health and Wellness
* Spring City Medical Clinic
* TCFPA Family Medical Center
* Mountain Management Offices
12 p.m. open
* Buz Standefer Lung Center
* Memorial Family Medicine Ooltewah
* CHI Women's Health Associates
* Cardiac Rehab
12:30 p.m. Drs. Jurgens, Parker and Jolley
1:30 p.m. Renee' Harless, M.D.
Cancelled: Mobile Coaches.
Closed: Radiation Cancer Care
Closed: Soddy Daisy Medical Center
Report closings
Please report all closings to webeditor@timesfreepress.com
Read more
* Signal Mountain cut off again as snow turns roads to slip-n-slides * Snow begins to strangle Chattanooga roads; Jackson County declared "impassible * 70-vehicle pileup in snowy Maine leaves at least 17 injured * Tennessee's winter storm death toll hits 30 * Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam urges people to check on neighbors as storm moves in * Red Cross: Prepare as winter weather rebounds in Metro Atlanta, North Georgia * Alabama governor declares state of emergency ahead of winter storm * Gov. Deal declares state of emergency ahead of winter storm