Current Event Report

Kevin Medina
Period 4
2/27/2013
Section 1 1. Yahoo.com 2. Colo. kids stranded at school overnight by snow 3. 2/27/2013 4. COLLEEN SLEVIN
Section 2 Snowstorm - A heavy fall of snow, esp. with a high wind.
Disrupt - Causing or tending to cause disruption.
Whiteout - A dense blizzard, esp. in Polar Regions.
Section 3
Main Idea
A snowstorm moving across the Midwest forced about 60 students to spend the night at their Colorado school
Details
On the plains in the eastern half of Colorado, wind and snow created whiteout conditions Tuesday afternoon
The older kids slept on wrestling and gym mats covered with coats, while the younger ones curled up on preschool napping mats, Principal Sharon Webb said.
The blowing snow also temporarily closed a 150-mile stretch of Interstate 70 from just outside Denver to the Kansas line, along with other smaller highways in eastern Colorado, including the one leading to the school.
The storms that crossed Kansas last Thursday and again this week dropped more than 2 feet of snow in some places and knocked out power to thousands of customers, mostly in eastern counties.
Section 4
Many students were left to sleep overnight at their school because of the weather. A snowstorm came and was able to destroy power lines leaving people without power. It was also able to make an interstate be completely unusable. People were left stranded in their cars because they had nowhere to go.
Section 5
I’ve never had to experience anything like this; most of the storms that come by are normally hurricanes and are tracked so school would get closed down. I honestly wouldn’t mind be trapped at school during a snow storm it would be interesting. Maybe not as fun as it seems in my mind but interesting to see how everything would play out.
Section 6 A snowstorm moving across the Midwest forced about 60 students to spend the night at their Colorado school when a state highway was closed due to dangerous conditions that left some drivers stranded in their cars, as winter weather continued to cause problems for a wide swath of the country.
Tens of thousands remained without power in Michigan, while adverse conditions continued to disrupt flights at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. In eastern Wisconsin, hundreds of vehicles were stranded or ended up in crashes as a winter storm made travel dangerous. And in Kansas, the latest snowstorm to hit the state was being blamed for six deaths.
According to the air traffic tracking website FlightAware.com, about 100 flights in and out of Chicago's airports have been canceled for Wednesday. Flights into O'Hare International Airport are being delayed an average of about an hour.
On the plains in the eastern half of Colorado, wind and snow created whiteout conditions Tuesday afternoon just as buses began taking students home from the Miami-Yoder school district school about 40 miles east of Colorado Springs. The buses turned back to the school and about 60 students, ranging from preschoolers to 12th graders, watched movies, played basketball, ate concession-stand pizza and talked to their parents before bedtime.