School Closing Information
November 20, 2007
****INCLEMENT WEATHER****
In bad weather you have the following options to check if school will be starting late or cancelled. However, you must be aware that if we have a late start you need to check back in case there has been a change to school being cancelled all day. When there is a late start, early dismissal or a school closing, twenty (20) different radio and television entities are contacted.
Radio stations contacted include:
- KLGA, Algona (92.7 FM & 1600 AM)
- KFMC, Fairmont (106.5 FM)
- KSUM, Fairmont (1370 AM)
- HOT 100, Spencer (100.1 FM)
- KILR, Estherville (95.9 FM & 1070 AM)
- KICD, Spencer (107.7 FM & 1240 AM)
- KBEW, Blue Earth (98.1 FM & 1560 AM)
- KKEZ, Fort Dodge (94 FM)
- KWMT, Fort Dodge (540 AM)
- WHO, Des Moines (1040 AM)
Television stations contacted include:
- KIMT, Mason City - channel 3
- WHO, Des Moines - channel 13
- KCCI, Des Moines - channel 8
- KTIV, Sioux City - channel 4
- KEYC, Mankato - channel 12
- WOI, Ames - channel 5
Please do not call the school to ask if there is an early dismissal. Once that decision is made calls need to be made to the stations and channels indicated above. If we have incoming calls it ties up the lines making it impossible to reach those stations and channels and thus limiting getting the announcement broadcast as widely as possible. If there is going to be an early dismissal please listen to one of the above channels or stations instead of calling the school. Click on the weather related announcement button on the front page for activities cancellations. We will put it on the website as soon as we know if there are cancellations.
If you have a computer and an Internet connection you can also check late starts, closures and early dismissals online at www.kimt.com, www.whotv.com, www.theiowachannel.com, and www.ktiv.com.
Now is a good time to make plans for childcare and emergency plans if school is dismissed early due to bad weather. A reminder that preschool and daycare will be dismissed the same as the K-12 grades. Please let your children and their teachers know where they are to go in the events of an early out. When school is dismissed early due to weather no scheduled activities or practices will he held that afternoon or evening.
