{"id":166114,"date":"2026-03-17T12:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166114\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:21:19","slug":"winds-prompt-schools-to-delay-some-power-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166114\/","title":{"rendered":"Winds prompt schools to delay, some power out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Monday morning\u2019s high winds prompted some north country schools to delay opening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Shortly after 5 AM, South Jefferson Central School delayed opening by two hours, with AM pre-kindergarten and AM BOCES canceled for South Jefferson. Watertown &#8211; which has a large number of students who walk to school &#8211; also delayed by two hours, followed by other schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">And schools weren\u2019t the only thing affected: National Grid\u2019s outage map at 5:15 AM showed a string of outages affecting hundreds of customers, scattered from lower Jefferson County up through the Gouverneur area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">(By 9 AM, the number of customers without service had lessened substantially and was under 500 in the north country.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">7 News meteorologist Kris Hudson reported early Monday that the high winds brought down trees and power lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The National Weather Service issued a high wind warning for all of today in Jefferson and Lewis counties, until 8 PM tonight. The worst of it is this morning, with wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Monday morning\u2019s high winds prompted some north country schools to delay opening. Shortly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50,8421,10877,68116,3609],"class_list":["post-166114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-outage","tag-power","tag-school-delay","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}