Cobb Reporter

A Cobb County community is banding together to ensure that area schools open on time after pipes ruptured in at least two schools during the freezing temperatures over Christmas weekend.

Kimberly Custance, director of Marietta Community School, recently told FOX 5 Atlanta that maintenance dropped everything the day after Christmas and came out to the school immediately.

"The initial damage was it was raining from the ceiling and the ceiling collapsed in one of the girls' bathrooms," she told FOX 5.

Reports of the ruptured pipes came on Dec. 26 when two teachers setting up for a drivers’ education class noticed water pouring in from the ceiling, the FOX 5 report said. As crews worked to repair the initial rupture, another indoor rain shower started in the cafeteria followed by a report of damage at Sawer Road Elementary School.

Things appear to be getting back to normal at the schools. Ceiling fans have been replaced and nearly everything has completely dried out. Blowing fans remain on site and some baseboards have been removed from the premises.

Schools were scheduled to reopen on Wednesday, Jan. 4; and Superintendent Grant Rivera emailed parents and caregivers of the students to let them know that their children should be set to return to school on that date as scheduled; the FOX 5 report said.