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Workers Hustle
To Clear Campus
Bv Shahr/ad Rezvani
Staff Writer
As students and faculty venture back
to classes after three days of being shut
out by snow, Grounds Department
workers are still working feverishly to
clear campus roads and walkways.
Snowplows and workers with shovels
covered campus in the early mornings
of the week to make the roads and side
walks accessible to students.
The University is operating today
under Condition I, which advises stu
dents and faculty to use caution while
traveling to and from campus.
Students and employees are also
allowed to park in any legal non
reserved space on a first-come, first
serve basis including visitor lots other
than the Cardinal and Dogwood Decks.
Provost Dick Richardson said con
ditions had improved to the point
where classes could resume at 9 a.m.
“There’s been more melt-off and
they’ve cleared more parking areas,” he
said.
But Grounds Department Director
Kirk Pelland said that regardless of
when classes began, he could not deter
mine w hen the workers’ job would be
over. He said workers were now con
centrating on clearing sidewalks in the
quad and building entrances.
Pelland also said Thursday that
workers were focusing on clearing the
Smith Center and nearby parking lots in
preparation for the UNC-Maryland
basketball game, which was moved
from Wednesday night to Thursday
night.
Workers hit South Campus sidewalks
Thursday afternoon to prepare for the
flood of students that would be making
their way to Friday morning classes.
“There’s going to be some trouble
working on campus (no matter what we
do) because there’s just too much,” he
said.
He said workers only had a small
amount of time to clear roads until the
snow turned to ice. “It’s too packed
down,” he said. “Whatever we don’t get
plowed, we’ll put sand down so you can
walk on top of it.”
Because the severe weather condi
tions and cancellation of classes is so
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unusual, workers are working extra
hard to get conditions back to normal.
This week’s closings resulted from
what the Department of Public Safety
calls Adverse Weather Condition 111,
defined as unusually large accumula
tions of snow, sleet, ice or freezing rain
on campus and in the University
employment area.
“Condition 111 means there are no
classes, faculty and staff are not to
report to work and basically the
University is closed,” said Public Safety
Director Derek Poarch.
He said essential employees, such as
those who worked to clear the roads,
were still expected to report to work.
Dining employees also remained on
duty throughout the week as all campus
dining facilities remained open during
the storm.
Adverse weather conditions are
declared by the chancellor’s office in the
event of weather interrupting normal
University operation.
Condition II cancels classes but
leaves University offices open.
Richardson said he agreed with the
decision to upgrade the condition from
Condition I to Condition 111 this week.
“The reports that we got were much
more serious this time than any other
time.”
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Snowstorm Slows Town Services
Bv Sarah Brier
and Walter Herz
Staff Writers
Local governments, businesses and
schools are still struggling in the icy grip
of this week’s record-setting snowstorm.
The 20 inches of snow that blanketed
Orange County Monday night caused
the cancellations of schools, local gov
ernment meetings and closed business
es, and left thousands of residents in the
dark.
Andrea Ray, spokeswoman for Duke
Power, said the number of customers
without power had dropped drastically
from the peak 11,300 outages on
Wednesday night. But, she added,
progress in restoring power to the
remaining customers had slowed.
“We are at the smaller blocks of cus
tomers so it is not going as quickly,” she
said. “The rest of the customers should
see relief soon.”
In preparation for the approaching
storm forecasted to hit Orange County
Saturday night, Ray said Duke Power
had taken precautions against further
outages.
“We are tracking and making prepa
rations,” she said.
“We have crews from seven states
here and we are going to keep them
here for the weekend.”
Officials at the Orange Water and
Services Authority said services had not
been seriously impaired because of the
snowstorm. A news release reported
water systems were operating on a nor
mal basis Tuesday and Wednesday.
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for emergency personnel, who faced a
harder time responding to calls due to
the icy roads. Kent McKenzie, deputy
director of Orange County Emergency
Management, said the department’s
vehicles were struggling in the winter
weather.
“Our ambulances have not been
doing really well in the deep snow, and
our response cars have not been doing
well at all,” he said. “We’ve been using
National Guard hum-vees to get people
to hospitals and shelters.”
No major snow-related emergencies
were reported.
Area schools have had to change
their schedules or close because of the
potentially dangerous driving condi
tions.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro schoolchildren
have had an indefinite amount of time
to play, as the snow forced class cancel
lations today for the fourth day in a row.
Neil Pedersen, Chapel Hill-Carrboro
City City Schools superintendent, said
the six make-up days already included
in the school calendar were exhausted
Wednesday, leaving days to cover
Thursday and Friday’s cancellations in
question.
“We had make-up days planned up
until Wednesday,” he said. “We will
have to identify make-up days for
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Local grocery stores also have had to
alter their business hours. Chris Smith,
store manager at the Harris Teeter locat
ed at 1200 Raleigh Road, said all the
local stores were working on similar
schedules.
“We’ll be opening at 8 a.m. and have
no idea about closing,” he said.
Banks, restaurants and other stores
on Franklin Street all seemed to follow a
similar trend of being closed on Tuesday
and Wednesday but are now open with
modified schedules.
Britt Keele, owner of Goodfellows,
said the storm increased his business
and did not cause him to drastically
change his hours.
“There is not as much to do and peo
ple don’t have to wake up in the morn
ing,” he said.
“People are cooped up and want to
get out.”
Keele said they were doubling up on
food orders and were ready for another
potential storm Saturday.
Food deliveries have also been a
problem for Linda’s Bar and Grill.
“We have limited amounts of food,”
manager Dennis Almond said. “Nothing
is getting delivered and we (are required
by law) to sell food in order to sell
liquor.”
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Students without classes to look for
ward to flooded Linda’s during the snow
days, Almond said.
Lowe’s Home Improvement
Warehouse Store of Chapel Hill
reopened Thursday with normal hours
after operating under reduced hours
Tuesday and Wednesday.
“Business has been the same, or
maybe a little slower because of the
snow,” co-manager Michael Bowman
said.
Buses shut down by the icy condi
tions finally began running again, but on
modified routes, said Iris Schwintzer of
the Chapel Hill Transit Authority. Bus
routes F,D, J and T opened back up
Thursday on modified service.
“We will have some service out
tomorrow but probably not full service,”
Schwintzer said.
Sgt. Tyrone Ross of the N.C.
Highway Patrol said local road condi
tions were better than those in other
parts of the state.
“The main roads are pretty much
passable,” he said. “However, the
biggest problem we’re having is running
across stranded vehicles, because they
keep the (DOT) snowplows from clear
ing all the lanes.”
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