Charlottetown school trip back underway after storm stay

Queen Charlotte Grade 9 students are on their way to Ottawa after a blizzard interrupted their school trip Monday.

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"Queen Charlotte Intermediate School is back on the road," Target Tours announced on Facebook at 8 a.m.

The tour left two hours early Monday in an effort to get out ahead of the storm.

But the blizzard caught up with them in Oromocto, N.B., just outside Fredericton. A little before 9 a.m. the three-bus convoy pulled over at a gas station. Organizers had hoped the stop would last just a couple of hours, but at 2 p.m. a decision was made to overnight in Fredericton.

Target Tours expects to have the students in Ottawa at 5 p.m.

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