Cobb schools back in session Tuesday

Just after 3 p.m. Monday, the Cobb County School District announced via social media that all classes and other school activities are back on for Tuesday:

All Cobb County schools will resume classes on Tuesday, December 12, on a normal schedule.Cobb schools closed

Cobb schools have been out of session since an early release on Friday, as a winter storm approached metro Atlanta and left in some areas nearly a foot of snow.

Some of those areas included portions of Cobb County, and resulted in power outages that includes some school facilities.

Cobb schools cancelled Monday classes for that reason, and because of icy roads, including school parking lots and driveways.

Temperatures reached above 50 degrees on Monday afternoon, and lows tonight aren’t expected to fall below 40.

As of 3 p.m. Monday, Cobb EMC said it was down to restoring power to 1,377 Cobb customers and working to repair a broken power pole on Ebenezer Road.

Georgia Power reported Monday afternoon that it has around 6,000 customers still without power, with a handful in Northeast Cobb.

Earlier Monday, Cobb DOT said that Davis Road between Holly Springs Road and Sandy Plains Road remained closed, due to downed trees and power lines that also cut off electric power.

All Cobb government offices reopened under regular hours on Monday, including libraries, which were closed all weekend due to the winter weather.

On Monday evening, Johnson Ferry Baptist Church (955 Johnson Ferry Road) is holding a Christmas Festival concert at 7 p.m. That was an addition to the schedule after two Saturday holiday concerts were cancelled due to the weather.

The forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday calls for mostly sunny skies and highs in the mid-40s and for the rest of the week, with highs in the low 50s projected for Thursday and for the weekend.

 

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