School closing because of Ida storms/flooding risk?
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Anonymous
| Our charter cancelled afterschool activities. |
Anonymous
Since I posted this, LAMB cancelled their aftercare today too. |
Anonymous
| Just looked at the map-- looks like it will rain but most severe weather pushes north of the city. MCPS makes sense. |
Anonymous
| All DCPS after school activities (including aftercare) are cancelled today (9/1) |
Anonymous
| yeah, tornado watch until 7. I hope our school's external dismissal goes quickly today! |
Anonymous
Stokes is closing at 12:30  No idea why this makes sense. We got notice at 11 am.
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Anonymous
| Our charter is following DCPS guidance and closing aftercare. |
Anonymous
| This post didn’t age well. |
Anonymous
LOL! Seriously. |
Anonymous
| This all seems very odd to me. Normally this type of weather forecast would never be enough to close schools. What's different? |
Anonymous
The amount of rain (people trying to drive home). The winds, the tornado threat. There are lots of issues. You may not have been around about 10 years ago when DCPS closed for a hurricane. But it has happened. |
Anonymous
| I'm picking up my kids early. We walk a mile through pretty dense, mature trees. I hate to do it, but it's my job to keep my kids safe. |
Anonymous
Oh, I was. That's why I am a little confused. This is definitely not a hurricane-level event, according to CWG and all of the modeling. |
Anonymous
I find it odd that you felt the need to write such a defensive comment lol |
Anonymous
It's that the worst of the weather (along with likely floods) will be arriving as the usual rush hour/end of day traffic is peaking. MCPS has significantly more bus transportation of students and just generally more transportation logistics to worry about, as well as some parts of the county that are significantly more rural than D.C., so I'm not surprised they closed early while D.C. didn't. |