Delays and closures continue across P.E.I. Tuesday morning after significant snowfall, strong winds and blowing snow hit the Island overnight.<\/p>\n
Weather-related closures began Monday afternoon as the winter storm began.<\/p>\n
Environment Canada issued yellow weather warnings across the province. Kings County is under a snowfall warning while Prince and Queens counties are under winter storm warnings.<\/p>\n
Environment Canada’s alerts, which were updated Tuesday morning around 4:30 a.m., said up to 5 cm of additional snowfall is possible across the Island, with locally higher amounts possible as well.<\/p>\n
Closures<\/p>\n
P.E.I.’s French and English schools are cancelled for the day.<\/p>\n
Island Montessori Academy Stratford and Cornwall centres are closed.<\/p>\n
All Holland College campuses are closed.<\/p>\n
UPEI\u2019s Charlottetown and St. Peter\u2019s Bay campuses will be closed for the day. The AVC Veterinary Teaching Hospital will remain open for emergencies.<\/p>\n
The Community Supports Program is not operating today.<\/p>\n
All T3 rural transit buses are cancelled for the day.<\/p>\n
Delays\u00a0<\/p>\n
T3 Transit Route #7 Stratford will begin service at 10 a.m. from DVA Shelter. Route #9 Cornwall will begin service at 9:15 a.m. from Royalty Crossing Mall.<\/p>\n
All Island Waste Management collections across the province are delayed, with a further announcement by 9:00 am.<\/p>\n
All provincial civil service offices Island-wide are on a delayed opening until 10:30 a.m., with a further announcement by 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
All branches of Provincial Credit Union are on a delayed opening until 12 p.m., with a further announcement by 10 a.m.<\/p>\n
Charlottetown City Hall and its administrative offices are delayed opening until 10:30 a.m., with a further announcement by 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
Summerside City Hall and all non-essential services will be closed until 10:30 a.m., with a further announcement by 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
All public libraries Island-wide are on a delayed opening until 10:30 a.m., with a further announcement by 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
Simmons Sports Centre and Cody Banks Arena are also delayed opening until 10:30 a.m., with a further announcement by 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delays and closures continue across P.E.I. Tuesday morning after significant snowfall, strong winds and blowing snow hit the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,199005,14881,199004,44,141244,199003],"class_list":{"0":"post-496290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-delayed-opening","11":"tag-environment-canada","12":"tag-holland-college","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-winter-storm","15":"tag-winter-storm-warnings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}