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I am writing this letter because people do not know what goes on behind the scenes during inclement weather.
Did you know that while you are home during a two-hour school delay or a school closing that there are school personnel shoveling, plowing, salting and using snow blowers on the sidewalks and roads so you can safely make it to school?
Between November and February, the Greater Nanticoke Area School District has had six days of outright school closures, eight hours of delays followed by school-closed announcements, and 30 hours of two-hour delays. In each of those delays and closings the maintenance and custodial personnel were outside – mostly in below-freezing temperatures with wind chills below zero – clearing up the roads and sidewalks.
Some folks think that our sidewalks and roads have heaters in them, and that all of the snow and ice disappear automatically. This is not the case.
They also think that when you salt the roads or sidewalks, the ice should disappear immediately. Not so! These areas need a few hours and some sun to disappear.
Soon the warmer weather will be here and we finally will get some kind of break.
Thanks to all of our maintenance and custodial departments in all of our school districts, and all of the people who work outside, for being there in all kinds of weather.
J.D. Verazin
President
Greater Nanticoke Area Support Professionals Association