Tuesday’s rapidly developing winter blast resulted in a large number of Cherokee County school children being stranded – at least temporarily – at their respective schools.

School Superintendent Mitchell Guice had called for the schools to be dismissed at 12:30, but the bad weather blew in around 11:00am and it hit hard – dumping more than two inches of snow on the county’s roadways incredibly fast, creating extremely hazardous travel conditions.

In light of that fact, the decision was made to ground school busses and keep children on campus until their parents could safely make it there to pick them up.

The Cherokee County Highway Department worked to clear a path to Sand Rock so that children could make it home safely.  Some students were also temporarily housed at the Leesburg FEMA Building until transportation could be arranged.

All Cherokee County students were reportedly home safe by just after 5:00pm.

Cherokee County wasn’t the only area to deal with the issue – in Chattooga County Georgia they struggled to get students home safely.

In the Town of Trion the Highway Department worked to clear the roadways until students made it home safely; Trion Police carried some of those students home.  Meanwhile Chattooga County School officials moved about 100 stranded students to Summerville Middle School, off Highway 100. Summerville Police, Sheriff’s Office Deputies and Summerville Firefighters were taking the children home from there.

A school bus slid off the roadway on Highway 140 in Armuchee – fortunately, no one was hurt in the mishap.