New York City’s snowstorm is moving schools to full distance learning

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) – New York City Mayor de Blasio has declared a state of emergency, including limiting all non-essential travel, from 6am Monday.

The following categories are exempt from these restrictions:
Public transport workers
First responders
Healthcare workers and home care workers
Police officers
Peace officers
All other employees engaged in vital city services
Delivery of food, medical supplies or fuel
News media
Hotel employees
Homeless shelters and social workers
Utility workers who perform emergency repairs
Persons employed by pharmacies, supermarkets (including all food and drink shops), convenience stores, bodegas, gas stations, laundries, hotels, restaurants / bars and hardware stores
Persons seeking medical treatment or medical supplies
Rental vehicles, used to transport persons used to perform any of these services to and from their place of employment

The mayor warned New Yorkers not to travel as the storm’s intensity worsens.

715 salt spreaders, 2000 crews are on hand to clear roads with another 120 crews to join the fleet of other city agencies.

As of Saturday, more than 500 miles of the roadway was pickled and pretreated by urban remediation.

All students in New York City will transition to distance learning on Monday due to the winter storm. As for Tuesday, de Blasio says no decision has been made yet.

The food distribution in schools and the learning bridges childcare program for Monday will be stopped.

All Catholic primary schools in the Archdiocese of New York are closed on Monday, February 1 due to the expected major snow storm. Monday will be a “traditional snow day” with no remote instruction. All Catholic schools have built snow days into their calendars with unforeseen circumstances to make up for teaching time.

Archdiocese High Schools operate independently, so high school families must follow the instructions of their individual schools.

Monday’s COVID vaccine appointments are being rescheduled due to the impending snowstorm.

“The last thing we want is to urge our seniors to come out in the middle of a storm like this,” de Blasio said at a news conference on Sunday morning. ‘It does not make any sense.’

Alternate side parking for Monday and Tuesday has been canceled. The mayor says the open restaurants / open streets program will also be canceled on Monday evenings.

Dangerous travel advice comes into effect on Mondays and Tuesdays.

DSNY is split into shifts from 2 to 12 hours to work around the clock. The city has more than 270,000 tons of salt and 320,000 liters of calcium chloride on hand.

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