[Updated] Vernon on the High End of Snow Totals

Updated Friday, 8:06 a.m.

There is no school in Vernon today as snow fell through the night Thursday and into Friday morning.

Here is the official alert message from the school system:

Good morning, this is Mary Conway, superintendent of schools in Vernon. Schools will be closed today, Friday, March 8, 2013 due to the snow. I repeat, schools will be closed today, Friday, March 8. Thank you and have a good day.

The snow day means students in Vernon Center Middle School and Rockville High School will have classes for two days at the end of the April vacation - April 18 and 19.

April 19 will now be a day of classes for elementary school students in Vernon.

State Homeland Security officials and the National Weather Service had warned that a slight temperature change would leave Vernon closer to the 10-inch end of the storm than the original 6 inches predicted.

Local emergency management officials said no major incidents related to the snow have been reported.

Connecticut Light & Power was reporting, via the Vernon Office of Emergency Management, that 92 customers were without power early Friday morning. The outages were related to a "fuse issue" on Hartford Turnpike and they were in the Hillside Avenue feed to Hilltop and Hillside Manor avenues. The expected repair time was by 8 this morning, but as of 6:52 a.m., just two customers were without power, emergency management officials said.

Updates:

Friday's trash and recycling collection has been suspended and the Friday schedule will resume in a week.

Excess trash and recycling can be dropped off at the Transfer Station on Hockanum Boulevard without a punch card from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, from noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, DPW Director Robert Kleinhans said.