what is there to do in gatlinburg in december?
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 In three of the previous five years , the legislature had failed to meet the June 30 deadline . On each of those occasions an agreement had been reached by the morning of July 2 . Aides to Corzine claimed that the governor felt he had no choice but to order the shutdown under the state 's Constitution . 

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 In Knoxville , however , they find out that the fair was held fourteen years earlier , and that its featured attraction , the Sunsphere , is now being used as a warehouse for a wig shop , now called the Wigsphere . The boys ' car soon gets destroyed by the Sunsphere being toppled by a rock Nelson threw , and they are stranded without any money or transportation . They sign up as couriers and then go to Hong Kong . Bart places a collect call to Lisa , who has spent the entire spring break with Homer at work , to ask her for advice . Lisa obtains Homer 's promise that he will not get upset and she reveals Bart 's predicament , causing Homer to scream in his safety helmet . To get Bart home , Homer contacts a power station close to the boys ' location , and orders a new command module for the power plant , after spilling soda over the current one , and ships it via courier from Knoxville , with Milhouse , Nelson , and Martin stowed away inside the crate and Bart as the courier . 

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 Retail store drivers who venture less than a 100 air @-@ mile radius are allowed to exceed daily driving limits to make store deliveries from December 10 to December 25 , due to the demands of the Christmas shopping season . 

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 U.S. government officials have been especially concerned about schools because the H1N1 flu virus appears to disproportionately affect young and school @-@ age people , between six months and 24 years of age . The H1N1 outbreak led to numerous precautionary school closures in some areas . Rather than closing schools , the CDC recommended that students and school workers with flu symptoms should stay home for either seven days total , or until 24 hours after symptoms subsided , whichever was longer . The CDC also recommended that colleges should consider suspending fall 2009 classes if the virus began to cause severe illness in a significantly larger share of students than the previous spring . They also urged schools to suspend rules , such as penalties for late papers or missed classes or requirements for a doctor 's note , to enforce " self @-@ isolation " and prevent students from venturing out while ill ; schools were advised to set aside a room for people developing flu @-@ like symptoms while they waited to go home and to have ill students or staff and those caring for them use face masks . 

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 Fall is the most rapidly changing season temperature wise , especially in October and November . Tropical cyclones remain a threat until late in the season . The Appalachian Mountains are frequently visited at this time of year , due to the leaves changing color in the trees . 
