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Extreme Weather Closes Schools and I-10

January 29th, 2014 by flanews

Motorists traveling across North Florida were forced to take alternate routes as freezing bridges caused the closure of nearly two hundred miles of Interstate 10. It’s been 25 years since a winter storm closed I-10.

In what’s being called the storm of the decade, Winter Storm Leon closed nearly two hundred miles of Interstate ten, from west of the state capitol to Pensacola. Florida Highway Patrol Captain Mark Welch blames icy conditions. “The bridges are icing over and people aren’t, don’t recognize the ice and when they hit it, they lose control of their cars and end up crashing. Well, we did [see accidents] before we started closing the interstate down,” says Capt. Mark Welch, FL. Highway Patrol.

Where I-10 was open, the DOT was spreading sand on bridges in an effort to keep them open.

Giving meaning to the term ‘storm of the decade, the interstate hasn’t been closed since 1989.

Freezing rain fell through mid morning. “It is absolutely freezing, cold wet,” says Mike Cusick/Lobbyist.

Schools were closed across much of the panhandle. Leon Superintendent Jackie Pons said better safe than sorry. “We didn’t want our students driving at six 45 this morning in the ice and our bus drivers out driving in the ice,” says Jackie Pons, Leon School Superintendent.

Florida A&M University was also closed for the day. FSU had plans to open at noon but then cancelled classes for all of Wednesday.  “I am very cold.” Amy Katzman, FSU Student.

We found FSU student Amy Katzman, who grew up in the panhandle, freezing as she waited for a bus. “No, never, never [have I] been this cold,” says Katzman.

Traffic was light on area roads as many stayed home. Freezing temperatures are expected through Thursday morning.

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