Closures and delays due to snow around Kitsap County

On By Littum

Kitsap Sun Staff
| Kitsap Sun

The most significant snow of a winter first week in February arrived overnight, leaving several centimeters of snow, again closing schools and knocking the stream out to home around kitsap.

Totals around the county ranged from three inches in Bremerton to four inches in Port Orchard and Poulsbo, as much as six inches in Seabeck.

Bremerton, Central Kitsap, North Kitsap, North Mason and South Kitsap School Districts announced that classes are interrupted on Thursday, a fourth straight day, while Bainbridge schools are at a two hour delayed start. Crosspoint Academy in Bremerton also canceled all classes, and Olympic University Campuses are on a two-hour delay, from 1 p.m. 06.00

Kitsap County Courthouse and County Office is closed after he originally announced a two-hour delayed start, as well as all County Waste and Recycling Facilities. Operations at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Trident Refit Facility in Bangor and NUWC Keyport are limited. All Naval Base Kitsap installations are only important person today. And the trigger gate at Naval Base Kitsap Bangor is closed due to icy conditions. Naval Gate and Dewey St. In Bremerton is also closed due to accumulated snow and poor road conditions.

In addition, Puget Sound Energy reports scattered power cuts around the county, including the neighborhoods just north of the Bangor base, around Wildcat Lake and more than 4,000 homes on the east side of Port Orchard out to Manchester.

Road closures

Southbound lanes in Highway 16 were closed early Thursday, according to Washington State Patrol after a semi-truck was disabled. Both lanes closed around 7 p.m. 7:15 near the Tremont Street output. The truck slid into a ditch according to the WSDOTtrooper Katherine Weatherwax and had to be dragged out. Drivers use Bay Street as an alternative.

Weatherwax added in a social media post: “Also if you can be home, you have to make cars anywhere in ditches.”

The city of Port Orchard issued a list of city streets that were closed overnight due to snow and ice. Includes Cline Avenue from Kitsap Street to Division Street; Sidney Avenue from Bay Street to Division Street; Dekalb Street from Bay Street to Cline Street, Rockwell Avenue, Morton Street from Mitchell Avenue to Farragut; See Hortsman Road from Tufts Avenue to Orlando Street; Tracy Avenue from Chester to Lawrence; and Stockton Street from Tracy to Farragut.

Cities and the county plow roads and have issued maps for the residents to see which routes are cleared. Click here To see the kitsap county timetable. Click here to see cards by Port Orchard. Click here to see a map of roads In Bremerton. Click here to see the plan to Poulsbo -Roads.

Upcoming forecast

The current National Weather Service forecast does not call for show showers to continue, predicting dry and but cold weather in the coming days.

Serious weather shelves in kitsap remain open Thursday night for residents to get out of the cold. Three shelters will be open from 1 p.m. 18 to 7, except in Kingston, where the hours are at. 18:30 until 7 p.m. 06:30

  • Village Green Community Center in Kingston, 26159 Dulay Road
  • Port Orchard Methodist Church, 725 Kitsap Street
  • Silverdale Community Church, 9982 Silverdale Way

This story is updated when new information is advertised.