Clarkdale News

The children in Cinda Snodgrass' fourth-grade class in south Cobb County aren't doing much homework these days.

Commuters who live west of the city are having trouble getting home tonight now that state officials closed several bridges over the Chattahoochee River.

While some schools in metro Atlanta were able to re-open Wednesday, others remained closed.

Their new roommates at Compton Elementary and Austell Intermediate went all out to make a good first-impression. They tidied up, stocked Clarkdale classrooms with supplies and welcomed them like family - hugs, hot meals and all.

Some Cobb County students whose school was devastated by flooding headed back to class Thursday at different schools.

Most Cobb County school students will return to familiar classrooms Thursday to pick up where they left off before this week's disruptive floods.

Most metro Atlanta students will return to school Wednesday after getting a day off as communities recovered from a record-drenching storm that flooded streets, subdivisions and submerged one elementary school.