MCPS closed 2/5

[Anonymous]

Gaithersburg--sidewalks are bad but roads are fine. Warming up quickly.

[Anonymous]

New Bethesda poster here. My driveway was a sheet of ice at 8:00. We had a workman here at 8:30 and he said the main roads are fine but side streets were extremely slick and icy. You should have seen him trying to walk up our driveway. A 250lb guy in work boots was tip toeing like a ballerina. It was bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bethesda PP, I'm having trouble believing your sheet of ice stuff here in Chevy Chase - our driveway is all puddles and everything is dripping wet, NOT frozen. Cars are speeding down our street. maybe Poolesville is dangerous, but nothing close in could be described as remotely icy.

I said the sidewalks are icy, not a sheet of ice. Roads are fine. I left home at 8:30, when the high school kids would have gone on a 2hour delay, and it was questionable. I'm sure it's worse up county.

[Anonymous]

My trees are all ice at 10:30 even though the roads look fine. Friends without power upcounty

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bethesda PP, I'm having trouble believing your sheet of ice stuff here in Chevy Chase - our driveway is all puddles and everything is dripping wet, NOT frozen. Cars are speeding down our street. maybe Poolesville is dangerous, but nothing close in could be described as remotely icy.

Different Bethesda poster.
Ice as well at our place inside the Beltway.

Chevy Chase is further east, so that would explain it.
You may have noticed that PG did not close today. Even more east.

Sorry that there were cars speeding down your street today. Perhaps moving to a less traveled Bethesda street with ice might have helped....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bethesda PP, I'm having trouble believing your sheet of ice stuff here in Chevy Chase - our driveway is all puddles and everything is dripping wet, NOT frozen. Cars are speeding down our street. maybe Poolesville is dangerous, but nothing close in could be described as remotely icy.

Different Bethesda poster.
Ice as well at our place inside the Beltway.

Chevy Chase is further east, so that would explain it.
You may have noticed that PG did not close today. Even more east.

Sorry that there were cars speeding down your street today. Perhaps moving to a less traveled Bethesda street with ice might have helped....

Yes, in our little house close to downtown Bethesda, our steps and driveway were a sheet of ice at 9am.
It quickly melted with the morning rain, though.

I understand that a 2 hour delay would not have been enough for high-schoolers. MoCo should figure out a way to open downcounty while closing upcounty on iffy days.

[Anonymous]

You Bethesda moms are smoking something. I also live near downtown Bethesda and there were no sheets of ice anywhere near there at 9am today. There was ice on trees, but it was melting. On the roads, there was some slush which was slippery in places but not remotely dangerous. The inability to contemplate driving when there is no ongoing precipitation and very very minor amounts of ground material is just absurd.

[Anonymous]

MCPS is more than Bethesda, isn't it?

[Anonymous]

Ice all over sidewalks here in Silver Spring this morn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS is more than Bethesda, isn't it?

Sometimes people seem to forget that, though.

[Anonymous]

Though roads were completely fine, I saw sidewalks in NW that were incredibly icy - thick sheets - at 8:30am. So of course there could have been icy sidewalks in Maryland.

You all do you know that the sun hits at different angles right? Your yard or street may be wet while 100 feet away no melt has occurred? Right? Tell me you know this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Yes, in our little house close to downtown Bethesda, our steps and driveway were a sheet of ice at 9am.
It quickly melted with the morning rain, though.

I understand that a 2 hour delay would not have been enough for high-schoolers. MoCo should figure out a way to open downcounty while closing upcounty on iffy days.

I'm above PP - our entrance is due north and always pretty cold (orientation to prevailing wind, etc), so this is probably why it was so icy. My friend in Silver Spring drove her husband to work at 8am and could hardly drive up her steep driveway coming back. Overall, dangerous conditions for a lot of people this morning. I prefer snow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS is more than Bethesda, isn't it?

Sometimes people seem to forget that, though.

...and/or wish that it were only Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

"Sheet of ice". The most overly used and mostly false phrase used by soccer moms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bethesda PP, I'm having trouble believing your sheet of ice stuff here in Chevy Chase - our driveway is all puddles and everything is dripping wet, NOT frozen. Cars are speeding down our street. maybe Poolesville is dangerous, but nothing close in could be described as remotely icy.

Different Bethesda poster.
Ice as well at our place inside the Beltway.

Chevy Chase is further east, so that would explain it.
You may have noticed that PG did not close today. Even more east.

Sorry that there were cars speeding down your street today. Perhaps moving to a less traveled Bethesda street with ice might have helped....

Yes, in our little house close to downtown Bethesda, our steps and driveway were a sheet of ice at 9am.
It quickly melted with the morning rain, though.

I understand that a 2 hour delay would not have been enough for high-schoolers. MoCo should figure out a way to open downcounty while closing upcounty on iffy days.

The county is too big to begin with. I would love to split into two and I don't care how or why or where the split but I think it would make a better run school system for BOTH sides. And yes, Damascus had 0.4 inches of ice and there was hardly anything in Bethesda. One of my kids goes to private in Bethesda and driving her there today was a non issue.