Snow Day PM Rolling Updates

Well this morning proved to be a great snow day, totally ruined my sledge going down Crellin’s Hill, but let’s see what this afternoon throws up.

We’ll have a rolling update throughout the afternoon and evening, here’s what we know so far:

Power

Power is restored in most of Kirk Michael Village, some surrounding areas are still off-supply, and MUA’s engineers are still in the area working on this.

Roads

Boats

Tonight’s Ben-my-Chree sailing to Heysham has been cancelled, as of course, has the return sailing.

Hospital 

If you have a hospital appointment booked for tomorrow afternoon (Friday), this is due to go ahead as planned. However, all face to face outpatient appointments planned for tomorrow morning will be cancelled.

Endoscopy appointments scheduled for the morning have been cancelled and will be rescheduled as soon as possible.

Schools

A decision on schools, UCM and public counters will now be made by 7am tomorrow morning.

The gov has said: ‘These decisions are based on the current forecast of all-island snow coverage during the evening and through the night tonight. The impact of this is difficult to predict, the final decisions will be made once the morning conditions have been assessed. We recognise that this changeable situation has resulted disruption to the public, and thank everyone for their patience and understanding while we respond to the information available to us.’

Gov Counters Etc

Most community and gov sites are now closed or closing.

Noble’s Hospital has cancelled afternoon appointments, except for urgent ones.

A&E etc remain open, but if you have to go, be careful.

The Northern Swimming Pool will be closing at 2pm.

The Northern Civic Amenity Site has now closed.

Businesses

Due to the deteriorating weather, MT will be closing the reception at its HQ from 1pm. Its customer services line will be open as normal on 624624.