SNOW HAPPENS: Intensive Learning Trips Affected by Nor’easter #4

Andrew Rowan

March 21, 2018

*Photo: The Moorestown Friends entrance sign is pictured after a February 2010 snow storm. Photo courtesy Larry Van Meter / MFS Marketing & Communications*

With the fourth nor’easter of March dumping large amounts of snow on the region, overnight Intensive Learning trips are making adjustments due to various flight cancellations.

The trip to Ecuador and the Galapagos had a flight scheduled for Thursday at 1:55 a.m. Once snow warnings arrived in the forecast, the group was told to arrive at Moorestown Friends to depart for John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday at 5:00 a.m. so they could beat the storm on the drive up. Trip members received a call at 3 a.m. Wednesday telling them to not come to school as the flight was canceled.

“None of us really know what’s happening now. They are trying to reschedule and [the trip members] are waiting to hear from Brunswick,” said senior Chloe Jones.

#Noreaster4 Update: 3,690 flights now cancelled to/from within US. @EWRairport and @LGAairport are most impacted as of now (over 800 cancellations each). Live cancellation/delay info available here: https://t.co/cdxPRg7G48 pic.twitter.com/NrxoYFVhUc

— FlightAware (@flightaware) March 21, 2018

For the trip to China, the “flight to Newark was canceled, but the travel agency rerouted us to Washington D.C., which is where we are now,” said junior Italia Vitella. The flight is scheduled for 1:35 p.m. and according to Vitella, “everything is still on schedule”. The flight departed on-time.

The Baseball and Service Trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is scheduled to depart by motorcoach on Thursday morning at 9 a.m. The nor’easter is expected to stop late Thursday morning, and no changes to the trip have been announced, according to junior Andrew Shah.

No changes have been announced regarding the trips to Italy and Croatia (departing Thursday evening), France (departing Friday evening), Wilderness Leadership and Mindfulness (departing Saturday), or Costa Rica (departing Monday).

Please consider this advice from NJDOT. Be Safe https://t.co/5Yq09UKaR3

— Moorestown Police (@Moorestown_PD) March 21, 2018

English Department Chair Debra Galler recalled a time when the Senior Class trip to Camp Mason, which used to be an annual occurrence during Intensive Learning, was canceled due to snow. “I remember seniors sitting around the MaColl room all day.”

Moorestown Friends School declared a snow day for Wednesday, March 21, marking the fifth snow day of the 2017-2018 school year.