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ORLANDO, Fla. – A prolonged cold snap in Florida caused flooding and water outages across multiple Central Florida school campuses, disrupting classes and forcing some students to relocate, officials said Monday.<\/p>\n
Much of Central Florida was expecting another night of temperatures at or below 32 degrees.<\/p>\n
The backstory:<\/p>\n
Freezing weather over the weekend led to water issues across Orange County campuses.<\/p>\n
At the University of Central Florida, a malfunction involving hallway air conditioning units allowed freezing air to circulate inside Towers 1, 3, and 4. This then caused flooding inside multiple dorm rooms.<\/p>\n
University officials said affected students are being housed in a hotel off campus while repairs are made.<\/p>\n
CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX LOCAL APP<\/a><\/p>\n Across town, Whispering Oak Elementary had a water outage just as students were arriving.<\/p>\n Some parents chose to pick their children up early over concerns about bathroom access and overall conditions at the school.<\/p>\n Orange County Public Schools said maintenance crews hit delays during repairs, but once school leaders were notified, families were alerted.<\/p>\n SIGN-UP FOR FOX 35’S BREAKING NEWS, DAILY NEWS NEWSLETTERS<\/a><\/p>\n The district said classes still began on time, bottled water was provided, and bathrooms were available for emergencies.<\/p>\n Another elementary school was closed for the day due to a backflow issue but is expected to reopen.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n “Maybe an inch of water, it was just all over,” UCF student Blake Ternasky said. “Nothing I can do about it really.”<\/p>\n Ternasky said he was told repairs at UCF could take about a week or less.<\/p>\n And at Whispering Oak Elementary, the issues are resolved, but parents said they were frustrated with the communication.<\/p>\n “It was really concerning to me,” parent Sara Wattuhewa said. “The communication was not there. We were just in the dark.”<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n UCF officials said they don\u2019t expect additional disruptions but will continue monitoring conditions.<\/p>\n OCPS said the backflow issue at the other elementary school has been fixed and that campus will reopen.<\/p>\n The Source: This story was written based on information shared by the University of Central Florida, UCF student Blake Ternasky, Orange County Public Schools and parent Sara Wattuhewa.<\/p>\n Orange County News<\/a>Winter Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. – A prolonged cold snap in Florida caused flooding and water outages across multiple Central Florida…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47,28,30,29,115,1335,628,221,26929],"class_list":{"0":"post-141456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-fl","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-orange-county","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-weather","16":"tag-winter-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}