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2 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, March ¢, 1984 Queen Street became a veritable ghost town last Tuesday dur- ing the worst storm of the winter. White-outs throughout the area made driving treacherous and in some places, virtually impossible. Most of the stores in Port Perry's downtown area were closed by 4 p.m. See story for details. Boeing 747s to ® Non stop ts between $ oo 569 May 04 to Oct. 05 Return The legendary greens, the castles and cottages, the pubs charter flights, escorted coach tours, driving holidays, AIR CANADA (%) O) Canada Ireland ® Complimentary meals, bar and in-flight movies and pints and the lilt and laughter of the people make Irish farm holidays, rail and bus holidays, car rental and Belfast * Dublin°*Shannon week from ITS MAGIC! Ireland a magic holiday destination. Sunquest offers hotel accomodation. Port Perry TRA ve ® 64 WATER ST., BOX 1720 PORT PERRY, ONT. PHONE (416)985-2268 Storm wreaks mayhem (From page 1) buses weren't cancelled on Tuesday, drivers were faced with the pro- spect of returning students to their homes. Most were late com- pleting their routes and some didn't finish their Public School and Port Perry High School students were tem- porarily stranded Tues- day afternoon when a few bus drivers refused to negotiate their way north of Prince Albert. As Simcoe Transit Com- pany president~Murray Walker pointed out, it's up to the driver to judge the road conditions and if he or she feels they're dangerous, they can refuse to drive all or part of a route. Many of the affected students were forced to find some other way of getting home or a place to stay for the night. Durham Regional Police escorted several young students to Columbus, where they were met by waiting parents, but others camped out in friends' houses in town. "They all got home or somewhere else even- tually," said PPHS Vice- Principal Wilmer Hill. Mr. Hill, a Hampton © resident, stayed at the school until the last stu- dent left somewhere around 6:30 p.m., and then resigned himself to staying at a friend's house in Port Perry for the night. He wasn't the only one. Several other staff members were forced to stay in town, as did many other staff and students from surrounding schools. Tuesday night was remarkably uneventful, according to Durham Police who reported no accidents in Scugog overnight. "There were no pro- blems at all as far as oc- currences go," Staff Sergeant Doug Aird said. "People seemed to be « staying in." Patrol officers | were ordered to stay out of the rural areas unless they were called, in case they got stuck. The warning went unheeded in one of - ficer's case, however. On Wednesday morning the Staff Sergeant had to deal with a cruiser stuck in a snowbank. VERY BUSY But the police car wasn't the only vehicle to get stuck during the two- day storm. Towing com- panies had a field day pulling cars, trucks, two school buses and a Township grader out of slippery situations for about 20 bucks a crack. Ray Warne of Ray's Towing reported approx- imately 20 calls for help on Tuesday, and about 15 by early Wednesday afternoon. At Brian's Towing (figures include Port Perry Towing) Dorothy Fulford receiv- ed an estimated 50 calls on Tuesday and between 30 and 40 on Wednesday. "It was slow around here until mid-afternoon Tuesday and then about 3 p.m. everything broke loose and we went steady "till about 10 p.m.," she said. 'We had two trucks going steady the whole time when getting from point A to point B was a real problem." Village Taxi was also busier than usual. Manager Don Taylor estimated the service received ten per cent more calls during the storm, some as far away as Orillia and Toronto In- ternational Airport. '"'We managed," he said "but ....." On Wednesday morn- ing a glance out the win- dow revealed the snow- ing had stopped but high winds and bitterly cold temperatures made driv- ing just as bad, if not worse, than it was the day before. School buses were cancelled throughout Durham Region, althought all schools were open. At Epsom Public School, only 10 students out of 80 enroll- ed showed up. At Cart- wright Public School, 57 out of 492 were in class. At Greenbank Public School, the figures were approximately 14 out of 130. Immaculate Concep- tion Catholic School reported 17 out of 160, nine of which were the sons and daughters of teachers. Prince Albert Public School boasted 62 out of 412. At the high schools, things weren't much dif- ferent. Cartwright High * School's attendance was about 20 out of 121 and Port Perry High School was filled with an estimated 100 out of a possible 1,000. HOSPITAL Because there were no accidents to worry about, Port Perry Community Memorial Hospital wasn't a great deal busier than usual. Ad- ministrator David Brown said several staff members couldn't make it to work because of the storm, but other staff double-shifted to make up for their absence. "In terms of surviving the storm, we did well," he said. "We have a real- ly fine staff and they WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY Cathy Robb 649-2450 rallied together to help get us thraigh the ed early on Tuesday, but up as usual on Wednesday to take care of the many cases of cars that wouldn't start, frozen engines and gas tanks needing gas line anti-freeze. Jack Vaz of All Flags Shell Station in Nestleton tried to close things up early on Tuesday, but people kept coming in until after 8 p.m. "We wanted to close at six, but we couldn't," he said. "I guess they were worried about not getting enough gas in this kind of weather." Brenda's Esso in Blackstock and Taylor's Gulf in Port Perry were both able to close early on Tuesday, and Wednes- day was a little slower than usual due to several cancelled appointments. "It seemed like everyone coming in needed spraying or a boost,"" Brenda Haines said. Scugog Hydro manager, Larry Mabley said his crew survived the snow with nary a pro- blem, downed line or otherwise. Other businesses weren't so lucky, however. The Culinar (Flam- | ingo) plant was operating one out of its two departments Wednesday when only seven or eight employees showed up for work. At General Motors in Oshawa, two plants had to be closed down on Wednesday, but it wasn't the fault of workers. According to media relations director Nick Hall, the mid-size car plant (A) was forced to shut down at 10a.m. and the larger car plant (B) was shut down at noon due to a lack of parts. "The shift came in okay but it was the parts that didn't come in," he said. Between the snow and the rain, this will be a February we won't forget for a long, long time. 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