Predictions for next week: Schools closed until what day?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm guessing they will be out all next week.

+1 it won't be safe for kids to walk to school for quite some time

so ridiculous! kids can navigate snow.

Exactly. The bigger concern is for kids who metro train or bus to school. If the Deal Bus isn't running those kids can't get there. WMATA access will equal schools opening. But that all depends on clear streets.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm guessing they will be out all next week.

+1 it won't be safe for kids to walk to school for quite some time

so ridiculous! kids can navigate snow.

How can kids or even adults for that matter (senior citizens, and/or people who have mobility issues) navigate 3-4 foot high snow piled up on curbs? Or icy, packed down curbed cuts? It's treacherous out there for pedestrians. And it will be for awhile.

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Anonymous wrote:FWIW, the school parking lot near us has been plowed several times already.

In DC it's not about the parking lots, it's about the sidewalks and the bus routes.

After Snowmageddon, there were giant dunes of snow alongside every street. The dunes made it dangerous for someone, especially a short someone like a child, to walk along the edge of the street because there was no where to go if a car came to close. On the other hand, if you chose the sidewalks, even where they were cleared, you had to climb a small mountain to get to the street to cross. Multiply that by an 8 block walk, and you've got 16 mountains, 16 chances to slip and slide into oncoming traffic.

If everything goes well, there will still be several 2 hour delays after schools reopen, so that kids who are walking are doing so in full daylight, without rush hour traffic.

My guess for DC is M,T closed, Wed. could go either way, Th/F 2 hour delay. Whatever DC does, MCPS and PGCPS will follow a day later. [b]FCPS will be closed until Feb.

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I just fell out

i am having a laugh at the FCS comment!!

I also laughed at the FCPS comment. Then I realized PP is literally telling the truth.

Chances are great they will be out of school all week. As this is the last week of January, it puts their return date at next Monday--Feb. 1st!

Yeah, I'm the person who wrote it, and I meant as literally true. I don't think FCPS will have school this coming week. If they were closed on the 21st, then I don't anticipate that roads will be better than that by Friday.

[Anonymous]

DCPS is closed 1/25/16

https://twitter.com/dcpublicschools/status/691287774918483968

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Wednesday at the earliest

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Anonymous wrote:It will be Wednesday at best. From what I saw late this afternoon on my street I have zero confidence in the DC DPW. A person a block away was apparently having a medical emergency. The fire truck and ambulance could not get through and were stuck 2 blocks away. My husband was out shoveling and the EMT personnel asked if he could shovel the entire block (past our house) so the EMT's would have a clear foot path to carry the patient out. My husband was clearing the sidewalk when a snow plow truck arrived at the corner. He was relieved for the person who required an ambulance to see the truck so that the street could be plowed and the person could get to the hospital. Well, he was mistaken. The truck was summoned to go to the Mayor's house (we live nearby) and was driving with the plow up, which is the reason it got stuck. The truck then had to be dug out by neighbors. So instead of plowing the streets as it drove to the Mayor's house (I guess he was in a big hurry to get there), the truck then did not offer any assistance or coordinate with EMS to help a citizen in distress. I am so disgusted and I sure hope the person with the medical emergency is ok. I did report this incident to my council member and to the DPW. I received a standard response that they will make sure "this never happens again" and that they will make sure that the EMS and DPW coordinate. I sure hope so and that the medical needs of residents take precedence over getting the Mayor's street plowed. Very disappointing.

Can you provide time of day and the block you live on? Would love to follow up on this as a potential story.

Please do. This is disgusting!

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Mayor's gotta show strong on Twitter, ya know?

[Anonymous]

The mayor is disgusting. Lifelong dem who did NOT vote for her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I'm guessing they will be out all next week.

+1 it won't be safe for kids to walk to school for quite some time

so ridiculous! kids can navigate snow.

How can kids or even adults for that matter (senior citizens, and/or people who have mobility issues) navigate 3-4 foot high snow piled up on curbs? Or icy, packed down curbed cuts? It's treacherous out there for pedestrians. And it will be for awhile.

The snow is a pain, but it's not dangerous. It really slows you down, you have to walk single file, you have to climb over snow banks. It gets in your boots and wets your pants. But I'll repeat that it's not particularly dangerous. The danger is slipping and falling, which for kids is not particularly a risk, they fall all the time. I'll concede that as you get older it's more and more of a risk.

Obligatory self-credentialing of someone who moved here from a more northern clime: I attended elementary school in Cambridge, MA. I walked to school every single day. From about Halloween to St. Patrick's Day* everyone wore boots to school every single day. One of the highlights of my youth was the first day in the spring when the snow was gone and I could wear sneakers again. If it snowed, we walked through the snow. We lived.

The issue really isn't with pedestrians. Of all transport modes walking has been the least affected, you can walk anywhere in the city, it just takes longer. Right now the problem is that a significant portion of the city is inaccessible to motor vehicles and pretty much all of the rest has reduced capacity for motor vehicles.

*(or Evacuation Day as it's known in Cambridge).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm guessing they will be out all next week.

+1 it won't be safe for kids to walk to school for quite some time

so ridiculous! kids can navigate snow.

How can kids or even adults for that matter (senior citizens, and/or people who have mobility issues) navigate 3-4 foot high snow piled up on curbs? Or icy, packed down curbed cuts? It's treacherous out there for pedestrians. And it will be for awhile.

The snow is a pain, but it's not dangerous. It really slows you down, you have to walk single file, you have to climb over snow banks. It gets in your boots and wets your pants. But I'll repeat that it's not particularly dangerous. The danger is slipping and falling, which for kids is not particularly a risk, they fall all the time. I'll concede that as you get older it's more and more of a risk.

Obligatory self-credentialing of someone who moved here from a more northern clime: I attended elementary school in Cambridge, MA. I walked to school every single day. From about Halloween to St. Patrick's Day* everyone wore boots to school every single day. One of the highlights of my youth was the first day in the spring when the snow was gone and I could wear sneakers again. If it snowed, we walked through the snow. We lived.

The issue really isn't with pedestrians. Of all transport modes walking has been the least affected, you can walk anywhere in the city, it just takes longer. Right now the problem is that a significant portion of the city is inaccessible to motor vehicles and pretty much all of the rest has reduced capacity for motor vehicles.

*(or Evacuation Day as it's known in Cambridge).

Please. I beg to differ. I'm mostly a pedestrian and there's NOWHERE to walk except in the streets. The sidewalks are piled high with never cleared snow or snow that was thrown there by plows. Everyone says "stop walking in the streets." Well, pedestrians are gonna have to until this clears. The sidewalks in this city are JUST AS IMPORTANT as the roads.

[Anonymous]

DCPS website says schools will reopen on Wednesday.