{
  "id": "2022-02-03-cedarville-university-winter-storm-closure",
  "slug": "cedarville-university-winter-storm-closure-2022-02-03",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Cedarville University",
    "shortName": "Cedarville",
    "state": "OH",
    "type": "private-liberal-arts",
    "alertSystemName": "CU Emergency Notification System"
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2022-02-03",
    "type": "weather-emergency",
    "cleryCategory": "advisory",
    "headline": "Weather emergency, February 3, 2022",
    "summary": "On February 2-3, 2022, [Cedarville University](https://emergency.cedarville.edu/2022/02/02/emergency-notification-school-closed/) issued emergency notifications closing campus Thursday and Friday due to [Winter Storm Landon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2022_North_American_winter_storm), a major system that placed 90 million Americans in its path across 19 states. No classes were scheduled and faculty and staff were directed to remain home. University-owned fleet vehicles were grounded due to hazardous road conditions.",
    "outcome": "No injuries reported. Campus reopened normally after the storm passed. The two-day closure affected all classes and campus operations.",
    "resolution": "resolved",
    "endDate": "2022-02-04"
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "February 2, 2022 (post date on the official emergency.cedarville.edu notification archive; no send time shown)",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "Due to the weather conditions, the campus will be closed Thursday, February 3rd. This means there will be no classes scheduled and faculty/staff will remain home. Due to the weather conditions, university-owned fleet vehicles are temporarily restricted from use. If conditions change, the restrictions may be lifted.  You may contact the on-duty Campus Security Officer for an update. This is a message from CU Campus Security.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceDescription": "Cedarville University emergency information site, Automated Announcement post '[Emergency Notification] Campus Closed 2/3/22' dated February 2, 2022 (Wayback 20220521230105; live page 404)",
      "annotations": [
        "The notification was titled '[Emergency Notification] Campus Closed 2/3/22' and was posted to the Cedarville emergency information website on February 2, 2022, the evening before the closure.",
        "The restriction on university-owned fleet vehicles is a standard Cedarville protocol during severe weather, reflecting the rural Greene County road conditions outside the university's village of Cedarville, OH.",
        "Lane B flip 2026-10-12: full text recovered from the official emergency.cedarville.edu Automated Announcement post (an email-to-post copy of the Regroup notification; the post title, likely the email subject, reads '[Emergency Notification]  Campus Closed 2/3/22') via Wayback capture 20220521230105 (live page 404). Replaced the reconstruction with the post body; the non-breaking space plus space after 'lifted.' is in the product's bytes and is kept."
      ],
      "characterCount": 427,
      "sourceUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220521230105/https://emergency.cedarville.edu/2022/02/02/emergency-notification-school-closed/",
      "lastUpdated": "2026-10-12"
    },
    {
      "sequence": 2,
      "type": "update",
      "timestampApprox": "February 3, 2022 (post date on the official emergency.cedarville.edu notification archive; no send time shown)",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "Due to the weather conditions, the campus will be closed Friday, February 4th. This means there will be no classes scheduled and faculty/staff will remain home. Due to the weather conditions, university-owned fleet vehicles are temporarily restricted from use.  You may contact the on-duty Campus Security Officer for an update. This is a message from CU Campus Security.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceDescription": "Cedarville University emergency information site, Automated Announcement post '[Emergency Notification] Campus Closed 2/4/22' dated February 3, 2022 (Wayback 20220521210830; live page 404)",
      "annotations": [
        "The closure extended to Friday, February 4, indicating the storm's impact persisted beyond a single day in the Cedarville area.",
        "Dayton Daily News reported on school and university closures across the Miami Valley region during this winter storm, consistent with Cedarville's two-day campus shutdown.",
        "Lane B flip 2026-10-12: full text recovered from the official emergency.cedarville.edu Automated Announcement post '[Emergency Notification] Campus Closed 2/4/22' (an email-to-post copy of the Regroup notification) via Wayback capture 20220521210830 (live page 404), found through the archive's February 2022 index. Replaced the reconstruction with the post body; the non-breaking space plus space after 'use.' is in the product's bytes and is kept."
      ],
      "characterCount": 371,
      "sourceUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220521210830/https://emergency.cedarville.edu/2022/02/03/emergency-notification-school-closed-2/",
      "lastUpdated": "2026-10-12"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "[Emergency Notification] Campus Closed 2/3/22 - Cedarville University Emergency Information",
      "url": "https://emergency.cedarville.edu/2022/02/02/emergency-notification-school-closed/",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "February 2022 North American winter storm - Wikipedia",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2022_North_American_winter_storm",
      "type": "reference"
    },
    {
      "title": "Schools, universities close due to snow accumulations - Dayton Daily News",
      "url": "https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/schools-universities-close-due-to-snow-accumulations/PVIBLNPAWRFDJDOJ2UJP4IOYWY/",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "[Emergency Notification] Campus Closed 2/4/22 - Cedarville University Emergency Information",
      "url": "https://emergency.cedarville.edu/2022/02/03/emergency-notification-school-closed-2/",
      "type": "official-archive"
    }
  ],
  "context": "[Cedarville University](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedarville_University), a Baptist liberal arts university in Cedarville, Ohio, enrolls approximately 4,700 students and operates under a conservative evangelical Christian mission. Its rural campus in Greene County, Ohio, sits in a region that receives significant lake-effect snow and winter weather. On February 2-3, 2022, [Winter Storm Landon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2022_North_American_winter_storm) -- a major winter event affecting 19 states and over 90 million people -- struck the Ohio Valley, prompting Cedarville to close campus for two consecutive days. [Emergency notifications](https://emergency.cedarville.edu/2022/02/02/emergency-notification-school-closed/) posted to the university's emergency information website instructed faculty and staff to remain home and placed a temporary restriction on university fleet vehicles, reflecting road conditions in the surrounding area. Cedarville's emergency notification system routes alerts through its emergency.cedarville.edu website and electronic messaging. The institution has a robust emergency notification infrastructure including documented procedures for weather closings, bomb threats, and active-threat scenarios, which it [publishes transparently on its emergency information site](https://emergency.cedarville.edu/procedures/emergencyalertprocedures.pdf).",
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "weather-emergency",
    "winter-storm",
    "campus-closure",
    "ohio",
    "baptist",
    "christian-university",
    "winter-storm-landon",
    "fleet-restriction",
    "rural-campus"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-05-31",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-10-12",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}