Morning Read: School buses navigage post-Irene roads

The Plattsburgh Press Republican is reporting this morning that school buses are wending their way around closed roads and downed bridges to get kids to school.  Here’s a sample of the last-minute adjustments being made, this one in Keene:

“We are going to have the Hurricane Road people and the others come to another bus stop, and we should be fine,” said bus driver Valarie Warner, who also maps the routes.

“We are not quite sure about Route 9N to our Jay stop. We have to call (Tuesday) to find out about how that will go, but we seem to think we can get over there with a bus instead of having them come to us. We have not quite figured out our new stops yet.”

Meanwhile, the Associated Press is reporting on the time-pressure faced by officials trying to rebuild roads quickly.

By November it will be too cold to lay asphalt, and by December snow and ice will cover the mountains, leaving towns dangerously isolated and possibly dissuading tourists during the region’s ski season. Vermont officials said Monday they are renting quickly built, military-style temporary bridges as a stopgap measure.

“We’re going to be into winter before we know it,” Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin told reporters last week. “We’ve got a lot of highways to rebuild, bridges to rebuild, before snow starts to fly in Vermont.”

What was your experience this morning?  Any complications as you got your kids off to school?  If so, let us know below…

Tags: adirondacks, education, irene, transportation