Wed no school or 2hr delay?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Won't the snow and ice all cleaned and treated by the end of Tuesday since snow has stopped already? Why prediction of closing for a week....

It depends if we get more snow and it turns into ice. We have had multiple plows and we’ve dug out several times and right now all of it looks like no one has touched it. It’s bad.

Where are you located? We are in Wheaton. We are in an HOA and the contractors came once right after the sleet/freezing rain stopped. Sidewalks and street are completely clear.

I am in Kensington. Streets are not plowed and we are responsible for our own sidewalks. We shoveled 4 times yesterday but still have a coating of icy snow. I predict neighborhood sidewalks are going to be the big problem.

+1 they haven't even bothered to plough the main street of my neighborhood once. They have no interest in reopening anything.

[Anonymous]

This was a modest snow event. Nothing like snowmageddon or snowpocalypse. If we take more than 2-3 days to dig out of this and resume normal operations, we’re doing something wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Won't the snow and ice all cleaned and treated by the end of Tuesday since snow has stopped already? Why prediction of closing for a week....

Is it getting cleaned? 211 schools plus walkways, sidewalks, ice skating parking lots, ~ 13k bus stops, buses need to start in the morning with low temps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Won't the snow and ice all cleaned and treated by the end of Tuesday since snow has stopped already? Why prediction of closing for a week....

It depends if we get more snow and it turns into ice. We have had multiple plows and we’ve dug out several times and right now all of it looks like no one has touched it. It’s bad.

Where are you located? We are in Wheaton. We are in an HOA and the contractors came once right after the sleet/freezing rain stopped. Sidewalks and street are completely clear.

I am in Kensington. Streets are not plowed and we are responsible for our own sidewalks. We shoveled 4 times yesterday but still have a coating of icy snow. I predict neighborhood sidewalks are going to be the big problem.

+1 they haven't even bothered to plough the main street of my neighborhood once. They have no interest in reopening anything.

Why don't you pay a little more in your county taxes to get them to plow? Patience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This was a modest snow event. Nothing like snowmageddon or snowpocalypse. If we take more than 2-3 days to dig out of this and resume normal operations, we’re doing something wrong.

You can’t melt the ice when it’s below freezing for a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This was a modest snow event. Nothing like snowmageddon or snowpocalypse. If we take more than 2-3 days to dig out of this and resume normal operations, we’re doing something wrong.

Be that as it may, that’s the track we’re on if my neighborhood is any indication.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was a modest snow event. Nothing like snowmageddon or snowpocalypse. If we take more than 2-3 days to dig out of this and resume normal operations, we’re doing something wrong.

You can’t melt the ice when it’s below freezing for a week.

What?! There's no emergency button they can press to clear the ice? What the h are families paying to live in the county?

[Anonymous]

It is weird. We usually have plows come through our main street in our neighborhood at least once or twice during a storm. Nothing so far.

[Anonymous]

Closed all week!

And

There's another storm chance this Sunday. Start a new thread!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Closed all week!

And

There's another storm chance this Sunday. Start a new thread!

Based on the forecast for Monday, February 2, 2026, there is a low, minor chance of snow in Montgomery county. Daytime (Feb 2, 2026): partly sunny with a 5% chance of snow and a high near 30°F. Nighttime (Feb 2, 2026): partly cloudy with a 10% chance of snow and a low around 13°F. cold, scattered flurries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Closed all week!

And

There's another storm chance this Sunday. Start a new thread!

Based on the forecast for Monday, February 2, 2026, there is a low, minor chance of snow in Montgomery county. Daytime (Feb 2, 2026): partly sunny with a 5% chance of snow and a high near 30°F. Nighttime (Feb 2, 2026): partly cloudy with a 10% chance of snow and a low around 13°F. cold, scattered flurries.

But the % could change

[Anonymous]

Delayed.

And it is not snowing anymore so people need to be out shoveling and clearing the sidewalks in front of their house so that when school is back in session, kids can safely walk to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is weird. We usually have plows come through our main street in our neighborhood at least once or twice during a storm. Nothing so far.

Same in our neighborhood in Silver Spring. Very unusual for us to not have been plowed yet.

[Anonymous]

I checked the snowplow map to see when we'll be plowed (we're at the bottom of a hill and pretty much stuck til a plow comes through) and they estimate finishing all streets at least once by Tuesday. You might think that means schools can open on Wednesday but given that it's not warm enough for melting, I'm guessing that MCPS will still find enough roads unsafe on Tuesday that they'll cancel Wednesday.

Roads that have been plowed but are not dry down to the asphalt will partially melt in daytime sun and then refreeze as ice overnight. And 10am (delay) is not late enough for them to thaw via the sun. There's also the matter of schoolbus stops being covered in snowdrifts from the plows such that kids need to wait for the bus in the street.

I'm happy to have the break-- it was a rough first semester for my kid and it's great that this came between semesters so there are not even tests looming when she goes back, whenever that is. But I really hope they open (likely, delayed) on Thursday. But I'm afraid the same thawing/refreezing/snowdrift dynamic will continue all week so it really depends on whether they can get the salt/sand trucks out across the whole county in the early morning of wednesday or thursday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was a modest snow event. Nothing like snowmageddon or snowpocalypse. If we take more than 2-3 days to dig out of this and resume normal operations, we’re doing something wrong.

You can’t melt the ice when it’s below freezing for a week.

How do Minneapolis, Boston and Chicago make it happen?