There has been no school in most districts in the El Paso/Las Cruces area the past three days.

The first might be called a snow day. After all, it did snow - maybe an inch in Santa Teresa .. a bit more in Las Cruces.

So maybe the school systems would have shut down. And maybe so would have the major educational institutions - UTEP, NMSU, EPCC and DACC.

But days two and three, frankly, were just due to El Paso Electric Company officials being ill-prepared at best or just plain stupid in...
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