School canceled in Quincy, Braintree and Weymouth

Snow and ice storm fall measurement
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– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

 

School canceled in Quincy, Braintree and Weymouth.

 

Extreme ice across the city is making for unsafe conditions for students walking and traveling to school on Tuesday claim local officials said.

 

Quincy Quarry News personnel, however, found it readily possible to travel about at least in Quincy on Tuesday in the wake of what turned out to to be a relatively modest snow, sleet and then rain storm late Saturday until early Sunday.

 

Snow Daze Stress Disorder
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

That and sympathized with frazzled parents stuck with having to scramble to arraign for childcare givent that classes were cancelled on what should have been the first day back to school following the long Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday long weekend.

 

Granted, there were some slipping and sliding challenges; however, Quarry personnel were able to hit the every increasingly mean as well as now currently also ice=laden street and sidewalks of Quincy to look for breaking news.

 

Skating to tonight’s City Council meeting
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive photo

On the other hand, a frostbitten Quincy Quarry photographer did find for a gobsmacking as well as all but assuredly first-time ever change that even the usually snow-jobbed to perfection Quincy City Hall was still ice-laden after closing time Tuesday evening.

 

Such, in turn, baits two possible explanations as to why City Hall was all but still a hockey rink this evening.

 

Kim Jong Koch Plaza frozen over
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive image

One is that city officials did not heed weather forecasters’ often repeated admonitions to clear still readily shoveled snow and sleet after what turned out to be a relatively modest storm locally abated Sunday afternoon before it become frozen concrete care of a well-publicized as well as fully expected day and a half long arctic hard freeze commenced Sunday evening.

 

After all, overtime wreaks havoc on already hard-pressed local taxpayers already hard-pressed bank account given that first quarter local property tax bills are due.

 

Brady frosted
A Montillio’s/Patriot Ledger image

And for the other explanation, perhaps city employees as well as city snow and ice removal contractors simply refused to miss any of the Patriots game Sunday evening, if not also the earlier National Football Conference Championship Game late Sunday afternoon.

 

Source: School canceled in Quincy, Braintree, Weymouth on Tuesday

 

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