By Amanda Yarnall

A state of emergency was declared when a record snowstorm hit Delaware the weekend before Wesley’s winter break.

Many students were affected by the storm.

Senior Megan Street’s parent’s produce business’s sales were affected when the snow fell on the busiest shopping day of their week – just before Christmas.

Not only did the family-owned business have to pay to have their parking lots cleared, but Christmas tree sales were affected as well, Street said.

“I was snowed in for a day and a half,” Erin Helmick, a junior said.

Helmick was in Pennsylvania at the time, and said that her area received 15 inches of snow.

“It didn’t ruin any plans because we are used to the snow, and you just have to plan things around storms,” she said.

Before the snow began to fall, the National Weather Service predicted 12-20 inches.

Conditions got so bad in the state that Gov. Jack Markell declared a state of emergency in New Castle and Kent counties. Airports were forced to shut down runways and train and bus routes were suspended.

In Delaware and surrounding areas, snowfall totals broke the record for the most snow to fall in a single December day.

“I was not affected,” Jarrhin Thomas, a senior, said. “But it was very dangerous to drive, even to go to the store.”