"We really have not seen the foggy conditions that would warrant as putting our entire transportation system on hold in decades," says Kelly Avants, Clovis Unified School District.
Buses sat in the lot for hours before they were cleared to take to the roads.
"I went to my bus stop today and said nobody's here, and there's fog everywhere," says Lee.
Simi Rose walked home, and her sister then took her to school with her siblings.
"There were a lot of kids in my house so we're just going to go down the route and take them really quick," says Lee's sister.
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The district spans close to 200 square miles; they have five spotters who go out and check the conditions each morning, and today they made the call determining it wasn't safe for the buses to leave the lot.
"There are five different locations that we tested visibility at a particular time of day, and they report in," says Avants.
About a fourth of the students take the bus, that's close to 10,000 children.
Initially, the call was Plan A, or a two-hour delay of the buses but because the fog lingered, that delay was upgraded to Plan B, adding an additional two hours.
"For AM kindergarten obviously, a four-hour delay is pretty much their day, so AM kindergarten classes were canceled completely," says Avants.
Parents like Adrienne were notified of the delays via email, her three kids normally take the bus, she opted to drive them instead.
"It is very, very scary for me because I don't know if they're going to get there safely so I would prefer bringing them, but it's scary to even be out right now," says Adrienne.
Through the low visibility and hazardous conditions, safety was a top priority for the district when declaring the rare delay.
"This is the first time in years. I don't think anybody was really planning for this, so it's kind of was a big surprise," says Adrienne.
Parents did receive attendance calls today, a precautionary measure the district says, in an effort to inform them that their child made it to school safely.
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