Snow day Friday? Sigh.

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Anonymous wrote:You’re alive! Presumably you’re healthy! It will be cold enough to snow! You have a child! These are such blessings. Don’t have time to focus on the negative so much (I know, you’d have more time for counting your blessings if your kid was in school!). Seriously though…

The thing is, after no school for a year and no daycare for most of a year, I am out of leave. I don’t get a snow day just because the kids do, so now I am, once again, juggling work responsibilities with parenting responsibilities for my 3 and 6 year olds). DH is in the same situation. Also we are both struggling with mental health after 2 years of this BS, and while the kids had lots of fun in the snow the last couple of days, they are tired of being out of their routine and behaving accordingly. My kindergartner is desperate to get back to school and friends.

Yes, we can county our blessings, and we do. But this weather, welcomed in other years, is hard for some of us. Hard.

I understand. It’s tough on working parents to lose so many days and I didn’t mean to be flippant with “count your blessings.” Hang in there!

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Anonymous wrote:A couple of inches isn't likely to close the schools. Monday was heavy snow that accumulated very quickly. They are saying now that it's likely just 1-3 inches and not as intense. If they close school for that, it would be both out of character for DCPS and stupid.

It depends when it falls.

It should end by sunrise. Not sure if that's better or worse.

Capital weather gang is saying if it snows as expected overnight Thursday into Friday, then Friday morning will be a difficult commute. That would mean, at best, a 2-3 hour delayed start for DCPS, which is notoriously conservative about school delays and closures. It is not expected to get above freezing on Friday, and as we’ve already seen this week plowing, etc is resource constrained. Snow day seems most likely result.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A couple of inches isn't likely to close the schools. Monday was heavy snow that accumulated very quickly. They are saying now that it's likely just 1-3 inches and not as intense. If they close school for that, it would be both out of character for DCPS and stupid.

It depends when it falls.

It should end by sunrise. Not sure if that's better or worse.

Capital weather gang is saying if it snows as expected overnight Thursday into Friday, then Friday morning will be a difficult commute. That would mean, at best, a 2-3 hour delayed start for DCPS, which is notoriously conservative about school delays and closures. It is not expected to get above freezing on Friday, and as we’ve already seen this week plowing, etc is resource constrained. Snow day seems most likely result.

The combination of snow timing (it's all gonna fall between like 10 p.m. Thursday and 4 a.m. Friday, leaving little time to clear it away before school starts), DPW covid shortages and DCPS covid wariness makes me think it's gonna be a snow day and a mostly lost week of school.

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Winter weather advisory is up. 9pm Th to 5am Friday

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The snow bible:

https://www.weather.gov/lwx/winter

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It looks like we are down to two inches predicted, which could be easily plowed if roads are pre-treated first. Do we know if DC is doing that?

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Pre-treating can s less effective when the event starts as rain which may be what we get overnight.

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Anonymous wrote:A couple of inches isn't likely to close the schools. Monday was heavy snow that accumulated very quickly. They are saying now that it's likely just 1-3 inches and not as intense. If they close school for that, it would be both out of character for DCPS and stupid.

I feel like DCPS closes with ANY accumulation. At the very least, I'm betting two-hour delay.

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… can be ….

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When do we expect to hear a decision? I see NoVa already announced. This is our first year in DCPS so not sure how it works.

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Anonymous wrote:When do we expect to hear a decision? I see NoVa already announced. This is our first year in DCPS so not sure how it works.

We will be lucky if we find out by 5:30 am

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Anonymous wrote:When do we expect to hear a decision? I see NoVa already announced. This is our first year in DCPS so not sure how it works.

We will be lucky if we find out by 5:30 am

Accurate.

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like we are down to two inches predicted, which could be easily plowed if roads are pre-treated first. Do we know if DC is doing that?

I was just caught behind a salt truck on Monroe Street so yes DC is pre-treating the roads.

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Salt truck on upper Wisconsin.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A couple of inches isn't likely to close the schools. Monday was heavy snow that accumulated very quickly. They are saying now that it's likely just 1-3 inches and not as intense. If they close school for that, it would be both out of character for DCPS and stupid.

I feel like DCPS closes with ANY accumulation. At the very least, I'm betting two-hour delay.

The other area school systems close with any accumulation. DCPS tends to do late openings and try to stay open if possible.