{ "id": "2025-02-19-longwood-university-mid-february-storm-closures", "slug": "longwood-university-mid-february-storm-closures-2025-02-19", "institution": { "name": "Longwood University", "shortName": "Longwood", "state": "VA", "type": "public-masters", "alertSystemName": "Longwood Alerts / alerts.longwood.edu", "enrollment": 5000 }, "incident": { "date": "2025-02-19", "endDate": "2025-02-20", "type": "winter-storm", "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification", "resolution": "resolved", "headline": "Two-day mid-February winter-storm closures", "headlinePublic": "Two-day mid-February winter-storm closures", "summary": "Longwood [closed Wednesday, Feb. 19 for an expected winter storm](https://alerts.longwood.edu/campus-closed-2-19-25/) and [closed Thursday, Feb. 20](https://alerts.longwood.edu/campus-closed-2-20-25/). The men's basketball home game went on Wednesday; Thursday's Little Women matinee was cancelled and the 7 p.m. performance went on.", "outcome": "Two closed days. In-person classes did not meet. Selected evening events continued." }, "alerts": [ { "sequence": 1, "type": "initial", "timestamp": "2025-02-18T18:40:50-05:00", "channel": "email", "verbatimText": "Longwood University campus will be closed on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, due to the expected winter storm. The men’s basketball home game vs. Gardner-Webb at 7 p.m. will go on as scheduled. \n\nWhile campus is closed, classes will not be held in-person. Faculty should communicate with students about their adjustments to the class schedule, which may include meeting online or alternative assignments. Students should check their email and Canvas for communications. \n\nAmended hours for on-campus facilities are: \n\nLongwood Dining: \n\nDorrill Dining Hall: open on a brunch-dinner schedule; 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. \nAll other campus dining locations will open on time; check Campus Dish for amended closing hours \n\nFacilities: \n\nUpchurch University Center: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.\nGreenwood Library: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. \nHealth & Fitness Center: Closed\nUniversity Health Center: Closed \nWygal Hall: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.\n\nThe Farmville Area Bus will not operate the Campus Line tomorrow.\n\n— Students living in Lancer Park are asked to move their vehicles to either the freshman or visitors parking areas. \n— Please do not park in the retail spaces at Longwood Landings to allow for snow plows to clear the area.", "isVerbatimConfirmed": true, "confidence": "high", "sourceUrl": "https://alerts.longwood.edu/campus-closed-2-19-25/", "sourceDescription": "Longwood Alerts archive: campus closed Feb. 19", "annotations": [ "Dual independent WP REST fetch 2026-08-24 after named TLS cert-expired. sha256 2f4c448fdae2f66761019914d563ae557004161b2f7150de3c52ac0abf41727e. WP timestamps treated as America/New_York wall time.", "Distinct incident from 2025-02-11-longwood-university-february-ice-closures: different storm window later the same month.", "Distinct incident from 2025-01-06-longwood-university-winter-break-ice-closures: different ice window." ], "characterCount": 1187 }, { "sequence": 2, "type": "update", "timestamp": "2025-02-19T17:42:27-05:00", "channel": "email", "verbatimText": "Longwood University campus will be closed on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, due to inclement weather. The 7 p.m. theatre performance of “Little Women” in Jarman Auditorium will go on as scheduled. The 2 p.m. matinee is cancelled.\n\nWhile campus is closed, classes will not be held in-person. Faculty should communicate with students about their adjustments to the class schedule, which may include meeting online or alternative assignments. Students should check their email and Canvas for communications. \n\nAmended hours for on-campus facilities are: \n\nLongwood Dining: \n\nDorrill Dining Hall: open on a brunch-dinner schedule; 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. \nChick-fil-A: 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. \nMoe’s: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. \nUpchurch Starbucks, Panda Express, FarmGrill, Greens to Go: Closed\nPOD, The Comma: Closed\n\nFacilities: \n\nUpchurch University Center: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.\nGreenwood Library: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. \nHealth & Fitness Center: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. \nUniversity Health Center: Closed \nWygal Hall: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.\n\nThe Farmville Area Bus the Campus Line tomorrow.\n\n— Students living in Lancer Park are asked to move their vehicles to either the freshman or visitors parking areas. \n— Please do not park in the retail spaces at Longwood Landings to allow for snow plows to clear the area.", "isVerbatimConfirmed": true, "confidence": "high", "sourceUrl": "https://alerts.longwood.edu/campus-closed-2-20-25/", "sourceDescription": "Longwood Alerts archive: campus closed Feb. 20", "annotations": [ "Dual independent WP REST fetch 2026-08-24. sha256 cb49a52bb106ff0fb59a58cd1c041d5b97ef26fc0e6605307454ef7ee4705bf1." ], "characterCount": 1269 } ], "context": "Longwood posts weather products at [alerts.longwood.edu](https://alerts.longwood.edu/). These two products closed campus Wednesday and Thursday, a week after the Feb. 11-13 ice window already on disk.", "keyFindings": [ "Wednesday and Thursday closures.", "The Wednesday basketball home game went on; Thursday's Little Women matinee was cancelled." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Longwood Alerts: campus closed Feb. 19", "url": "https://alerts.longwood.edu/campus-closed-2-19-25/", "type": "official-archive", "accessDate": "2026-08-24", "archiveUrl": null, "archiveNotes": "SPN 523; TLS certificate expired" }, { "title": "Longwood Alerts: campus closed Feb. 20", "url": "https://alerts.longwood.edu/campus-closed-2-20-25/", "type": "official-archive", "accessDate": "2026-08-24", "archiveUrl": null, "archiveNotes": "SPN 523; TLS certificate expired" } ], "confidence": "high", "tags": [ "public-masters", "virginia", "longwood", "winter-storm", "2025" ], "dateAdded": "2026-08-24", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-24", "addedBy": "ingestion" }