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Here Are The Schools Closing Early In Atlanta Due To Snow

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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Source: Prince Williams / Getty Here is a list of all the schools that are closing due to inclement weather in Atlanta, GA. Arthur M. Blank Family Youth YMCA CLOSING EARLY Banks Co Schools CLOSING AT 12:30 PM Bartow County Schools CLOSED TODAY Ben Hill Christian Academy CLOSED TODAY Brenwood Academy CHILDCARE WILL REMAIN OPEN. Bridgeway Christian Academy CLOSING EARLY Carman Adventist School CLOSING AT 1PM Carroll County Schools CLOSING EARLY Chattahoochee Tech – All Campuses CLOSING AT NOON Cherokee Charter Academy CLOSING EARLY Cherokee County Schools CLOSING EARLY Child Development Association CLOSING EARLY Cobb County Schools CLOSING EARLY Covenant Christian School CLOSING EARLY Coweta County Schools CLOSING EARLY Dalton Public Schools CLOSING EARLY Douglas County Courthouse CLOSING AT NOON Douglas County Schools CLOSING EARLY Dunwoody Prep CLOSING EARLY Fellowship Christian School CLOSING EARLY Floyd County Schools CLOSED TODAY Forsyth County Schools CLOSING EARLY Fulton Leadership Academy CLOSING AT 1PM Gainesville City Schools CLOSING EARLY Gilmer County Courthouse CLOSED TODAY Girls Inc. of Greater Atlanta CLOSED TODAY Haralson County Schools CLOSED TODAY Heard County Schools CLOSING EARLY Holy Spirit Preparatory School CLOSING EARLY Kennesaw State University CLOSING EARLY Kiddie Kollege – Lower Roswell CLOSING AT 3PM Kiddie Kollege Kampus CLOSING AT 3PM Kids R Kids 40 CLOSING EARLY Kings Ridge Christian School CLOSING AT 12:30 Kipp Metro Atlanta Schools CLOSING AT 1:30PM Landmark Christian School CLOSING EARLY Lyndon Academy NO EVENING ACTIVITIES Marietta City Schools NO EVENING ACTIVITIES McGinnis Woods Day School CLOSING EARLY Montessori Childrens House of N. Forsyth CLOSING EARLY Montessori School of Cumming CLOSING EARLY Oak Mountain Academy CLOSING EARLY Paulding County Board of Comm. CLOSING EARLY Paulding County Schools CLOSING EARLY Primrose School at Eastlake CLOSING EARLY Primrose School of Bells Ferry CLOSING AT 3PM Primrose School of Harmony on the Lakes CLOSING EARLY @ 1:00PM Primrose School of Oregon Park CLOSING AT 2:30PM Primrose School of Sixes Road CLOSING AT 3PM Reinhardt University CLOSED TODAY Southeastern Railway Museum CLOSING AT 12:30 St. Catherine of Siena Preschool CLOSING AT 11:30AM St. Francis School CLOSING EARLY Swift School CLOSING EARLY The Schenck School CLOSING EARLY The Weber School CLOSING EARLY TLE Christian Academy CLOSED TODAY Whitefield Academy CLOSING EARLY Wieuca Baptist Day School CLOSING EARLY Woodward Academy CLOSING EARLY Zion Baptist Academy CLOSING AT 1PM

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Blizzard 2016: Jonas Is Tearing Up The Northeast

Posted on January 23, 2016 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Looking out my back door at 11:30 a.m. in. NW DC. News sez 17 inches but seems like more. #Jonas #jonasblizzard pic.twitter.com/dqdqdILifz — Kitty Bean Yancey (@thebeankitty) January 23, 2016 Winter Snow Storm Jonas Blankets Northeast Region Winter Storm Jonas is here and it is not playing around, having already killed five in North Carolina alone. The blizzard is currently dumping inches of snow per hour along the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, and will reportedly dump as many as three feet of the white stuff when it’s all said and done. 11 states have already declared states of emergency. Via Bloomberg: A paralyzing winter storm forced the cancellation of thousands of flights, knocked out power to homes and threatened Washington with one of its heaviest snowfalls on record as it moved up the U.S. East Coast. Snow started to fall in Washington early Friday afternoon. The city, along with Baltimore, may get more than 2 feet (61 centimeters), according to the National Weather Service. New York and Long Island may see as much as 18 inches. “There are blizzard warnings for the whole corridor from Washington to Philadelphia, New York and Long Island,” said Dan Petersen, a meteorologist with the U.S. Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland. “It is going to put us in the top couple of snowstorms down here. It’s a historic snowstorm.” The heaviest three-day snow to fall in the Washington area was 28 inches in January 1922, according to the weather service. Baltimore received 26.8 inches in February 2003. While the East Coast cities bear the brunt of some of the heaviest snow, the storm is a national event, spawning a tornado and severe thunderstorms across the South and an ice storm stretching from Kentucky into North Carolina. My front steps are in there somewhere. About 18″ in Capitol Hill South this morning. @capitalweather #Snowzilla pic.twitter.com/TquZY4TWGY — Mockingbird Travel (@MockingbirdTrav) January 23, 2016 @weatherchannel #jonasblizzard Glenside PA north of Philadelphia pic.twitter.com/My0MaeMvtw — Amy (@amosgw) January 23, 2016 Anybody want to come over for some snow cake? Now, ready to serve on the back patio! Epic snow! #jonasblizzard pic.twitter.com/fQKZb7EjEs — Margaret Johnson (@coexistmarge) January 23, 2016

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#WinterStormJonas: Expect A Lot Of Snow, Not A Jonas Brothers Reunion

Posted on January 20, 2016 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Winter Storm Jonas is coming, and creative fans haven’t been able to resist making Jonas Brother references with the news.

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Punxsutawney Phil: Groundhog Day Weather King Set to Nail it This Year?

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Punxsutawney Phil, the rodent, the myth, the Groundhog Day legend, is gearing up to make his annual prediction early Monday morning, LIVE from the Keystone State. What will he see at the break of dawn on February 2?! Will there be a shadow sighting, thus signaling six more weeks of winter? Or will he foresee an early spring, a respite from the snow and bitter cold? Only Punxsutawney Phil can say for sure. Groundhog Day, of course, is when the affable, rotund rodent that gives the fun “holiday” its name emerges from Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa. He either sees his shadow or he doesn’t. A lot rides on this. If there’s a Phil shadow sighting at daybreak tomorrow, six more weeks of winter will follow. No shadow? Early spring baby! In the last 117 years, Punxsutawney Phil has predicted the coming of “early spring” a mere 16 times, not a big surprise since he lives in Western Pennsylvania. One of those times was 2013, when he projected an early spring, only to see record snowfall totals fall on much of the U.S. not even a week later. Punxsutawney Phil actually got sued by one Ohio county as a result of this call, although his handler took the blame and the case never made it to court. It’s a cautionary tale, however, and a reminder that even the best of us have an off year, no matter what we do. We are only human. Or groundhogs. The prognosticator bounced back strong in 2014, predicting six more weeks of winter, which very much happened. Will this year follow a similar pattern? Punxsutawney Phil: Weather Shot-Caller 1. Bow Down to the Prognosticator! Check out this awesome Groundhog Day photo. What a spectacle. Hopefully, Phil doesn’t stay up too late watching the Super Bowl. We need him on his game, although this may be shaping up to be an easy call for him. The current forecast for Monday a.m.: Winter Storm Linus pummeling much of the East Coast. Seems like the die is cast, but you never know. Only Phil does. All we mere mortals can do is sit back, relive some of the best Groundhog Day quotes from that classic movie and share your Groundhog Day prediction: SHADOW (winter to continue) NO SHADOW (early spring) View Poll »

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Hip-Hop Couples [PHOTOS]

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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Winter Storm Pax Slams Atlanta [PHOTOS]

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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Can’t Find Your Abandoned Car? Don’t Panic!

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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Can’t find the vehicle that you were forced to abandon because of this week’s storm? Don’t panic! State officials ordered that all vehicles left on…

Can’t Find Your Abandoned Car? Don’t Panic!

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Punxsutawney Phil: Sued By Ohio County Over Wrong Early Spring Prediction!

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Beaten down by months of snow, wind and cold, an Ohio county has issued an “indictment” against Punxsutawney Phil over his Groundhog Day prediction . Phil did not see his shadow February 2, signaling spring’s imminent arrival. Six days later, Winter Storm Nemo dumped 30 inches of snow on New England. Six weeks later, temperatures across the Northern U.S. remain frigid. Birds chirping? Flowers blooming? No sign of those anywhere. As a result, (hopefully) tongue-in-cheek Butler County, Oh., prosecutors are demanding justice, claiming Phil deliberately misled the American people. They say such a felony should be punished by death. Butler County’s chief prosecutor filed an official brief about this, lambasting the rodent for actions “against the peace and dignity of the state of Ohio.” “Punxsutawney Phil did purposely, and with prior calculation and design, cause the people to believe that spring would come early,” wrote Mike Gmoser. He vowed to bring the Pennsylvania icon to justice in the neighboring Buckeye State, but Phil’s handlers are having none of it, coming to his defense. Bill Deeley, president of the club that organizes Groundhog Day, said Phil has a lawyer and would fight attempted extradition by the Ohio authorities. “We’ll have to plead our case one way or the other, but I think we can beat the rap,” Deeley said, taking Butler County’s indictment more or less in stride. Criminally negligent or not, Phil really dropped the ball in 2013. This winter was pretty harsh, at least by recent standards, and grew worse if anything following Phil’s prognostication that spring would come early. Case in point: There’s another storm due on Sunday/Monday that could bring several additional inches of snow across the Midwest and Northeast. The first day of Spring was Thursday, March 21.

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Winter Storm Nemo: Why Is It Named That?!

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Winter Storm Nemo, a.k.a. the blizzard going on outside for tens of millions of Americans, is doing its thing. But why does a big snowstorm need a name? You can thank The Weather Channel alone for the moniker, it turns out. It also turns out that the National Weather Service is not amused. The massive New York / Northeast / New England snow storm will be among the biggest on record, but the region has seen plenty of snow in the past. Why is this one so special? And why Winter Storm Nemo of all names? Here’s the Weather Channel’s rationale for naming the blizzard: Naming a storm raises awareness about it, and the weather Naming it makes it easier to monitor the system’s progress A name gives it personality, which adds to the awareness A name makes it much easier to reference in communication A named storm is easier to remember and refer to later It’s not about marketing, or hype, or ratings, or generating more buzz for the Weather Channel, they say. Just doing their part for awareness and safety. Right. The Weather Channel defended the unusual move by saying it’s just stepping up to tackle a task to benefit the public that the government won’t: “There is no national center, such as the National Hurricane Center, to coordinate and communicate information on a multi-state scale to cover such big events.” Therefore, they say, “it would be a great benefit for a partner in the weather industry to take on the responsibility of developing this new concept.” The National Weather Service doesn’t see it that way. After TWC first began the practice by coining Nor’easter Athena in November, the NWS put out a statement disassociating itself with the naming system. The agency urged employees to “please refrain from using the term Athena in any of our products,” while local meteorologists were also unimpressed. Some wondered if TWC was just trying to parlay its peak audience during hurricanes – which are all named by the National Hurricane Center – into winter ratings. The network denies this and insists it’s just trying to help. It’s true that #nemo is trending on Twitter right now, and that’s easier to type than #blizzard. Maybe? And why Nemo? TWC says Winter Storm Nemo is NOT named after Disney’s Finding Nemo or the character in Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues under the Sea . It say that Nemo is “A Greek boy’s name meaning “from the valley,” and means “nobody” in Latin. So, yeah. Read into that however you like. And stay safe people.

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Winter Storm Nemo: Why Is It Named That?!

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Winter Storm Nemo, a.k.a. the blizzard going on outside for tens of millions of Americans, is doing its thing. But why does a big snowstorm need a name? You can thank The Weather Channel alone for the moniker, it turns out. It also turns out that the National Weather Service is not amused. The massive New York / Northeast / New England snow storm will be among the biggest on record, but the region has seen plenty of snow in the past. Why is this one so special? And why Winter Storm Nemo of all names? Here’s the Weather Channel’s rationale for naming the blizzard: Naming a storm raises awareness about it, and the weather Naming it makes it easier to monitor the system’s progress A name gives it personality, which adds to the awareness A name makes it much easier to reference in communication A named storm is easier to remember and refer to later It’s not about marketing, or hype, or ratings, or generating more buzz for the Weather Channel, they say. Just doing their part for awareness and safety. Right. The Weather Channel defended the unusual move by saying it’s just stepping up to tackle a task to benefit the public that the government won’t: “There is no national center, such as the National Hurricane Center, to coordinate and communicate information on a multi-state scale to cover such big events.” Therefore, they say, “it would be a great benefit for a partner in the weather industry to take on the responsibility of developing this new concept.” The National Weather Service doesn’t see it that way. After TWC first began the practice by coining Nor’easter Athena in November, the NWS put out a statement disassociating itself with the naming system. The agency urged employees to “please refrain from using the term Athena in any of our products,” while local meteorologists were also unimpressed. Some wondered if TWC was just trying to parlay its peak audience during hurricanes – which are all named by the National Hurricane Center – into winter ratings. The network denies this and insists it’s just trying to help. It’s true that #nemo is trending on Twitter right now, and that’s easier to type than #blizzard. Maybe? And why Nemo? TWC says Winter Storm Nemo is NOT named after Disney’s Finding Nemo or the character in Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues under the Sea . It say that Nemo is “A Greek boy’s name meaning “from the valley,” and means “nobody” in Latin. So, yeah. Read into that however you like. And stay safe people.

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