Cold Weather * USA - Causes Bus Problems
Hollidaysburg,PA,USA -WJACTV.com (Johnstown,PA) -Feb 5, 2007: -- Monday's cold weather caused trouble for school buses, and parents claim their kids were left out in the cold... Frozen fuel lines made at least one bus in the Hollidaysburg School District 30 minutes late Monday morning... District officials said thanks to frigid temperatures, five of their buses would not start. One of those buses picks up elementary school students on Orchardview Drive...
* USA - FWCS thinks fuel may have ground buses
Centre County,PA,USA -The Centre Daily Times, by Ese Isiorho -Feb. 05, 2007: -- Faulty fuel may be why about 25 percent of Fort Wayne Community Schools’ buses were not running properly Monday morning, said Doug Coutts, the district’s chief operations officer... FWCS buses run on fuel that is 20 percent biodiesel and 80 percent premium diesel. Two other districts also experienced widespread problems with their buses, which run entirely on premium...
* USA - Metro school districts cancel Tuesday classes
Detroit,MI,USA -The Detroit Free Press -Feb 5, 2007: -- School districts across the metro area, including Detroit, Dearborn, Bloomfield Hills, Royal Oak and South Lake, cancelled Tuesday classes today in the face of forecasts calling for another day of bitter cold temperatures... The school districts are trying to avoid a repeat of what happened this morning when the temperature was well below zero, forcing many districts to cancel classes, some at the last minute, because their buses wouldn't start in the cold...
* Canada - Bitter cold grips northern states
British Columbia,Canada -The Hinesberg Journal/AP -Feb 5, 2007: -- From Minnesota to New York, some schoolchildren are getting an extra long weekend because of the bitter chill that has spread over the eastern half of the country... Experts say exposed skin can get frostbite and school officials didn‘t want kids outside waiting for buses... In Michigan, there could be insult added to injury with winter storm warnings for most of the eastern Upper Peninsula and the northwest Lower Peninsula...
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