To keep my child off school for bad weather this week?

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We were rather caught out by storm Babet. We had a yellow weather warning but the worst flooding seen in years due to the amount of rain. Our County declared a major incident by mid afternoon. Children got stuck in schools in some areas. I was thankful my child was on half term as I only just managed to get home myself at 1pm due to flooding.

We have another yellow warning for Thursday, 50-60mph winds and lots of rain again (possibly not as much all in one go as Babet, but rain over a few days and there's still a lot large puddles, flooded fields etc of from Babet. My child has a 40 min taxi ride each way to school and a significant chunk is via country roads and small villages.

Wibu to keep them off? I'm worried about floods and fallen trees due to the wind but I'm not sure if Babet has skewed my thinking.

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I wouldn't decide yet. I'd keep a close eye on the forecast and if I had concerns on the morning then yes, absolutely.

I think, given your circumstances, I would keep a close eye on forecast and keep them home if things are looking really bad with storm ciarán.

In defence of @Sonolanona i read your thread title and thought you meant the whole week too
'To keep my child off school for bad weather this week?'

We have an amber warning from tomorrow and will be going nowhere. The floods from the end of last week have not abated, despite the efforts of the emergency services pumping out, the flood plains are under water, roads closed , supermarkets closed and remaining shops rammed. It’s been on the news and the Sky news helicopter was overhead yesterday.