FCPS people: How was your commute in the snow? Please include location. TIA

[Anonymous]

Drove the kid to HS in Tysons around 7am. The traffic was very slow and the roads were bad. Buses were around 20 minutes late.
Got on the Beltway afterwards and it was slow, but did not see any accidents all the way to I-270. I made it to work in about double the usual time.

[Anonymous]

Drove HS student in at 07:00. Roads were slick then & we have 4 wheel drive. It's only a mile; safer to walk home than drive. Hope kid doesn't accept an offer for a lift.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fairfax to Great Falls. They left at 7:40, Chain Bridge to Hunter Mill to Rt. 7, and they are still stuck. I am shocked and disgusted. I put my trust in FCPS thinking they must have it all together, even though looking out my window this morning told me otherwise. Never again.

I will be picking the kids up early.

My Windows told me the same thing but yet like a fool I drove two kids to school anyway, now I'm worried about I'm going to get them home. The school phone system seems to be down, don't know what the situation in school is like.

[Anonymous]

I made it up Glebe raod from Chain Bridge in my Prius. It is treated and worked well.

[Anonymous]

West McLean, Lewinsville Rd to Spring Hill Elementary, 2 miles, 10 min, Rav 4, messy roads.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I was a fool. I saw all the snow on my car but figured, "surely the main roads are clear!" SNORT

[Anonymous]

Hunter Mill to toll road to Route 28. There was traffic on 28 and several BMWs in the median bit mostly not too bad.

[Anonymous]

Great Falls - no way in our out of our neighborhood, no bus, no snow plows. Cars stuck in ditches. None of the kids from my neck of the woods were able to get to school today.

[Anonymous]

A little off topic, any my kid isn't school aged, but is there a reason that people don't just say 'no, school for my kids' despite what the school has said about openings/delays? I find it so interesting that some people will risk the peril of a icy commute because the school system says o.

[Anonymous]

*so, not o

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A little off topic, any my kid isn't school aged, but is there a reason that people don't just say 'no, school for my kids' despite what the school has said about openings/delays? I find it so interesting that some people will risk the peril of a icy commute because the school system says o.

When my kids were in preschool, they loved school and always wanted to go. Now they are in 1st and 3rd and whine and complain. If I say, hey school's open, but we're not going, then it makes school seem optional. The next time it snows, rains, or it's cold out, then we get - I don't want to go, I don't want to go. There is drama, complaining, and once in awhile scenes at the bus stop. However, if they get in a good routine of going to school, then they are fine. Their teachers say that have fun and have friends. I can't make going to school seem like it's optional because it's not. Yes, I wish FCPS had closed, but dh ended up driving them to school since that seemed safer than putting them on the bus (which never showed as far as we know).

[Anonymous]

In HS, they have so much work it really hurts to miss a day that others don't miss.