“We ended up closing because we were not comfortable with our students, buses or staff members traveling on the roads,” Tecumseh Local Schools Superintendent Paula Crew said in a post on the district’s Facebook page on Tuesday morning.
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While roads should see some improvement on Wednesday morning, some lingering slick spots from black ice will still be possible, according to Storm Center 7 Meteorologist Dontae Jones.
Fred Stegner, president of the Springfield Soup Kitchen, said the frigid temperatures caused him to open the kitchen as a warming center for the first time this season.
“It was a normal warming center day. People were coming and going,” Stegner said. “Lots of people who were just cold and walking around the city and needed somewhere to warm up.”
The cold weather can be deadly to people who are living on the streets, Stegner said. He said he knows people who live on porches, under bridges and in vehicles who need a place to go when temperatures fall.
“I gave out lots of hats, gloves and coats,” Stegner said.
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Early morning temperatures will be around 10 degrees on Wednesday, according to Jones, but there won’t be a breeze, which will keep the wind chill low. However, temperatures will still be well below normal for November.
Stegner said the soup kitchen will not open as a warming center on Wednesday morning but will open for dinner at 5 p.m. as usual and staff will be in early doing food prep.
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