UW Madison Snow Day
The Weather will never compromise, This what was happening when UW-Madison cancels all their Wednesday classes for the weather reason. Also they published this announcement via UW-Madison Website and their twitter account. Guess what should happening?, right, they got overloaded traffic through their website and it make the University of Wisconsin’s website down for a while.
In addition to canceling classes, the university asked that all non-essential employees stay home.
“The safety of our students, faculty and staff is paramount,” Chancellor Biddy Martin said in a statement posted online. “I encourage the campus community to stay off the roads on Wednesday. We hope to return to normal university business on Thursday.”
University spokesman John Lucas said that this is the first wide-scale class cancellation due to snow since Dec. 3, 1990. He added that this is the first time that non-essential staff have been asked to stay home in addition to the cancellations since Jan. 26, 1978.
Critical campus services will be maintained, according to the university release. These areas include public safety, snow removal, animal care, patient care and University Housing.
