CALIFORNIA, USA — Poor road conditions and heavy snow is causing some schools to cancel classes on Tuesday.
Citing unsafe road conditions for some communities, schools are closing down for the day. Some policies require closures for all district schools when others are closed for safety reasons.
The following schools have already called out:
El Dorado County
Pioneer and Walt Tyler Elementary Schools
Mountain Creek Middle School
Pleasant Valley Middle School
Pollock Pines Elementary School District
- Pinewood Elementary School
- Sierra Ridge Middle School
All schools in Pioneer Union School District
- Frontier Elementary School
- Pioneer Elementary School
- Pioneer Middle School
All schools in the Black Oak Mine School District
- Georgetown School
- Northside School
- Otter Creek School
- American River Charter School
- Golden Sierra Junior-Senior High School
- Divide High School
- Independent study
All schools in the El Dorado Union School District
- El Dorado High School
- Oak Ridge High School
- Ponderosa High School
- Union Mine High School
- Virtual Academy
- Independence (Continuation) High School
All school in the Gold Trail Union School District
- Gold Trail School
- Sutter's Mill School
All school in the Gold Oak Union School district
- Gold Oak Elementary School
- Pleasant Valley Middle School
Amador County
All schools in the Amador County Unified School District
- Amador High School
- Argonaut High School
- Ione Junior High School
- Jackson Junior High School
- Shenandoah Valley Charter
- Ione Elementary School
- Jackson Elementary School
- Pine Grove Elementary School
- Pioneer Elementary School
- Plymouth Elementary School
- Sutter Creek Primary & Elementary School
- North Star
- Community School
- Independence High School
- Amador Adult Education
Nevada County
The Grass Valley Elementary School District
- Bell Hill Academy
- Margaret G. Scotten School
- Lyman Gilmore Middle School
- Grass Valley Charter School
- All Preschools and Before and After School Programs in the District
YOUR PICS: Snow is here!
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Before refrigeration, ice harvesters worked on the frozen lakes of the Sierra, bringing back blocks of crystal cold to help people keep their food from spoiling. John Bartell hit the backroads to see if it was as fun as Disney made it look in 'Frozen.'