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January 15, 2024 - Joaquin ISD will be CLOSED on Tuesday, January 16th and will late start on Wednesday, January 17th. School will begin at 9:55am. Buses will run two hours later than normal. Staff reports at 9:30am. We will continue to monitor the weather and update again tomorrow around 1pm if any changes.
Ryan Fuller, Superintendent
January 15, 2024 - As precautionary measures, Excelsior ISD will be canceling school for Tuesday, January 16th and Wednesday, January 17th. Please stay safe and warm!
January 15, 2024 - Because of weather and road conditions, Shelbyville ISD is cancelling school for Tuesday and Wednesday, January 16-17, 2024. Please stay safe!
January 15, 2024 - After careful consideration, Center ISD is canceling school for Tuesday, January 16, 2024, and Wednesday, January 17, 2024. With temperatures not expected to get above freezing until almost noon on Wednesday, we believe the roads will be too dangerous to travel. Please stay safe.
Después de una cuidadosa consideración, Center ISD cancelará las clases para el martes 16 de enero de 2024 y el miércoles 17 de enero de 2024. No se espera que las temperaturas superen el punto de congelación hasta casi el mediodía. El miércoles creemos que las carreteras serán demasiado peligrosas para viajar. Por favor mantente seguro.
January 15, 2024 - Tenaha ISD will cancel school and all activities due to winter weather conditions for Tuesday, January 16th. We will evaluate weather conditions tomorrow and make a decision for Wednesday at that time. Thank you!
January 15, 2024 - Over the week of January 7th through 13th the Joaquin Volunteer Fire Department responded to one call. Here’s a summary of the week’s events.
Tuesday evening at 6:38pm a call was received requesting the JVFD to provide mutual aid on a structure fire in Logansport. When the JVFD arrived on scene, much of the fire within the structure had been extinguished, so they assisted with efforts to save personal belongings from smoke and water damage. Multiple Fire Districts from DeSoto Parish were also on scene ensuring that the fire was put out.
Three other pages were received throughout the week, but were resolved shortly after, so no action was required by the JVFD.
In other news, the Joaquin VFD will be hosting a political rally for all the candidates running for public office in Shelby County on Saturday, January 27th in the Joaquin ISD cafeteria. The department will be serving hamburgers at 6pm and the rally will begin at 7pm. All candidates and people of the community are welcome to attend. Candidates will be given an opportunity to speak and following their speeches, there will be time for the community to ask questions. Each candidate is encouraged to bring a cake or baked good to auction off after their speech as well.
With that, this edition of the report will come to a close. The Joaquin Volunteer Fire Department hopes everyone has a great and safe week ahead.
January 12, 2024 - Center ISD is currently monitoring the weather forecasted for early next week. Since we are out of school for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, we will wait until Monday to make a decision about Tuesday and Wednesday. Thank you.
Center ISD actualmente está monitoreando el clima pronosticado para principios de la próxima semana. Dado que el lunes no asistiremos a la escuela por el Día de Martin Luther King, Jr., esperaremos hasta el lunes para tomar una decisión sobre el martes y el miércoles. Gracias.
Update 3:45pm: Swepco reports power has been restored to around 3,000 customers at approximately 3:20pm on Friday, January 12 in the Center area. The cause of the outage is suspected to be a lightning strike of a piece of equipment at the SWEPCO Substation on Hwy 7 East causing it to fail and resulting in the outage. If you are still out of power, contact SWEPCO for your outage at swepco.com
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Update 11:50am: Swepco's Outage map has been updated and is now showing the majority of Center without power.
January 12, 2024 - Swepco reports a power outage in Center affecting 993 customers. The power outage occurred at 11:08am. At this time, Swepco is unable to provide an estimated time of restoration for the outage.
January 12, 2024 - The Shelby County Courthouse will be closing today at noon. Without electricity we cannot serve the public. We apologize for this inconvenience. We will be closed Monday in observance of MLK Day and plan to open on Tuesday, January 16. If the weather prevents the opening on Tuesday, I send a public notice.
I urge everyone to be careful this weekend, Monday and Tuesday will be bad weather days with extremely cold temperatures and possible icy conditions.
Update 12 noon: Approximately 2,000 meters are without power currently due to high winds. The National Weather Service has issued a Wind Advisory until 6pm. Northwesterly winds between 20-30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph are expected. Crews are assigned to all current outages and are working as quickly as possible.
Members served by our Oak Ridge Station (Woden area) may experience a lengthy outage as Oncor is working to replace two broken poles in the area. DETEC is unable to restore power until Oncor completes work. The included map images shows the area affected. DETEC is working closely with Oncor to make repairs.
January 12, 2024, 9am - Crews are working hard to restore power to approximately 3,300 meters. High winds are forecasted throughout the day. DETEC encourages everyone to keep safety a priority. Should you encounter a downed line, consider it live and dangerous.
Outages may be reported through our mobile app, online portal or by calling 1-800-392-5986. For prompt service, please know the telephone number associated with your account and the meter number at the location. The meter number is the 6 digit number following DETEC on your meter or it can be located on your utility bill.
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