Snow, Sleet And Closures As Hatboro-Horsham Brace For More

HORSHAM, PA — Schools and government buildings were closed in Hatboro and Horsham on Monday, as local officials responded after the first day of a winter storm blanketed the region with snow.

Meanwhile, authorities were urging residents to stay off of roadways that had become slick with ice. Horsham Police were asking residents to stay home.

"Our public works and contractors have been working since 1 p.m. yesterday and probably won’t be going home until Tuesday night," police said in a social media post Monday. "We also ask for your patience as this storm is significant in length and amounts. Once the snow finally stops, it will take another eight hours to give the town the final clean up."

At 2:30 p.m. Monday, the National Weather Service was reporting that "a variety of precipitation types are occurring in the I-95 corridor from the Philadelphia area northeastward to Trenton." The service was predicting "a change to snow with increasing intensity" that "will result in deteriorating road conditions."

That could result in up to an inch of snow every hour late Monday, the weather service said.

In Horsham, crews responded Monday morning to an emergency water main break on Woodlawn Avenue near Edgely Avenue. The Horsham Water and Sewer Authority said the break was fixed by about 3 p.m.

All schools and offices in the Hatboro-Horsham School District were closed on Monday. Meal distribution that had been planned for Monday was postponed to Tuesday from 4-6 p.m.

As of 4 p.m. Monday, PECO was not reporting any significant outages in the Hatboro-Horsham area. Emergency managers in the area said they were keeping an eye out for more outages as snow caused limbs and other debris to fall.

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