Communities, schools still affected by lack of electricity from storm
On the heels of another Nor’easter forecast for Wednesday, the county is still cleaning up from the one that slammed the region on Friday.
The snow may have not have lasted as long as it may with winter storms, but the barrage of downed trees, power lines and electricity connections is long-lasting with the severity of problems varied throughout the county.
About half of county school districts were open as usual on Monday; the other half was closed and/ or had a delayed start. A number of events in Upper Darby buildings over the weekend were canceled due to lack of electricity, but an announcement on Sunday said all activities and classes would resume to normal on Monday as electricity had been restored to all buildings.
Springfield, while still dealing with a section of Woodland Avenue near the literacy center and middle school still closed off due to weather-related conditions, had a two-hour late start. That section of road was reopened later in the day.
While all students in the districts of Haverford, Radnor and Marple Newtown had the day off, Rose Tree Media had a mixed bag. All schools were operating on a two-hour delay save for Rose Tree Media Elementary and Penncrest High schools which were closed for the day.
The correlation between municipalities with the highest power outages and districts with late starts or complete closures was high.
PECO has been updating its outage numbers and as of Monday evening about 7 percent of all county customers were without