{"id":9713,"date":"2026-01-26T11:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=9713"},"modified":"2026-01-26T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:16:00","slug":"schools-businesses-close-as-major-snowstorm-hits-queens-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2026\/01\/26\/schools-businesses-close-as-major-snowstorm-hits-queens-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools, businesses close as snowstorm hits Queens County"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A view of Main Street in Liverpool on Monday morning from the QCCR webcam. (QCCR)<\/p><\/div>\n

Schools and most businesses closed for the day in Queens County, as the area was expected to get up to 35 centimetres of snow overnight Sunday and through Monday.<\/p>\n

The snow and blowing snow began in the region late Sunday and was expected to continue all day Monday.<\/p>\n

There were reports of the Irving and Shell gas stations in Liverpool running out of fuel.<\/p>\n

While most places decided to close for the day, Queens Place Emera Centre was scheduled to open as a warming centre at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n

The fitness centre was closed for the day. And staff were going to judge whether to open the rest of the facility for afternoon programming or evening ice bookings, according to a post on the Region of Queens Facebook page.<\/p>\n

Curbside waste collection scheduled for Monday was rescheduled to Sat., Jan. 31.<\/p>\n

Nova Scotia Power reported no widespread power outages, though the company did warn that with colder temperatures, the power grid may be stressed and that short temporary power outages may occur.<\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Schools and most businesses closed for the day in Queens County, as the area was expected to get up to 35 centimetres of snow overnight Sunday and through Monday. The snow and blowing snow began in the region late Sunday and was expected to continue all day Monday. There were reports of the Irving and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[39,746,49,351,3647,1077,210,1688],"class_list":["post-9713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-liverpool","tag-nova-scotia-power","tag-queens-county","tag-queens-place-emera-centre","tag-snow","tag-snow-clearing","tag-snowstorm","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9713"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9720,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9713\/revisions\/9720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}