4 North Carolina Counties Shift Students to Remote Learning Amid Gas Shortage

4 North Carolina Counties Shift Students to Remote Learning Amid Gas Shortage

Four counties in North Carolina announced a shift for students to remote learning in five local school systems on Thursday amid a gas shortage after a cyberattack hit the nation's largest gasoline pipeline, the Colonial Pipeline, on May 7 and caused it to shut down operations.

Five school systems in Durham, Franklin, Vance and Wake counties canceled in-person learning on Friday, and will continue remote learning until the gas shortage is solved. North Carolina is among a few states that have been most impacted by gas shortages and tracking service GasBuddy.com revealed more than 70 percent of the southern state's stations were out of fuel.

Parents of students attending the Wake County school system received an email that discussed "the impact of the gas shortage on staffing availability and student transportation."