What about this Friday?

[Anonymous]

I was the poster who called a delay for tomorrow but I just went out and … there are no sidewalks. No cross walks. Yes the roads are clear but people are walking in the roads and lanes end abruptly. Now I think it’ll probably be closed tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

No way there is school tomorrow and I can see Monday being canceled as well. Our school is plowed but drove past another that was completely covered in sleet/snow. Many people walking in the street because sidewalks are inaccessible. Even though our school is plowed, drop off and dismissal would be a sh&t show because so many people park nearby and drop their kids off as walkers. But the street parking that is usually there is blocked with piles of hard packed sleet/snow. They could try the carpool line but that would bring the main residential street to a standstill. I'd love for school to open asap and wish everything could be cleared sooner but these are tough conditions. My elderly parents finally got a contractor to clear their sidewalk and driveway..just a few hours later a snow plow came by and dumped a couple of feet of ice at the edge of their driveway, blocking them in again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I would have known that this is a werk of no school, I would have taken PTO since last Friday to go somewhere warm with kids for vacation.

Everyone wishes they could forseee weather. For all of eternity, humanity has wished for this.

You should become besties with Ted Cruz. He seems to know when to get out.

[Anonymous]

I just drove through Frederick Co. MD. They are also closed today and it looks like they have much less snow and ice than Montgomery County. It seems like no local district had the capability to handle this ice and extreme cold.

[Anonymous]

I am planning for an opening, because I need a goal to continue picking at the wall of ice blocking my car! And eventually we'll have to drive to the store and to the doctor's...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was the poster who called a delay for tomorrow but I just went out and … there are no sidewalks. No cross walks. Yes the roads are clear but people are walking in the roads and lanes end abruptly. Now I think it’ll probably be closed tomorrow.

Ordinarily, I'd agree with this but we won't have a high temp above 32 til next Thursday. I don't see the street situation getting much better til then. They need to figure out some creative plan. Maybe staggered carpool dropoffs (2 hour delay but having parents drop off kids from the normal start time to spread things out) and sending a surge of safety personnel to help walkers/bus stops/street crossing.

I know this doesn't sound very realistic. But neither is two weeks off school until we get the the point where there's more melting.

[Anonymous]

Even Charles county is closed tomorrow. Mcps is not opening. I bet we won’t open til Tuesday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was the poster who called a delay for tomorrow but I just went out and … there are no sidewalks. No cross walks. Yes the roads are clear but people are walking in the roads and lanes end abruptly. Now I think it’ll probably be closed tomorrow.

Ordinarily, I'd agree with this but we won't have a high temp above 32 til next Thursday. I don't see the street situation getting much better til then. They need to figure out some creative plan. Maybe staggered carpool dropoffs (2 hour delay but having parents drop off kids from the normal start time to spread things out) and sending a surge of safety personnel to help walkers/bus stops/street crossing.

I know this doesn't sound very realistic. But neither is two weeks off school until we get the the point where there's more melting.

I think two weeks off school is more realistic than creative planning. I don’t envy the decision makers. Tomorrow is not happening. Early next week is questionable. I agree it raises the question of when things will be better, but if packed in snow is blocking too much in, it is what it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was the poster who called a delay for tomorrow but I just went out and … there are no sidewalks. No cross walks. Yes the roads are clear but people are walking in the roads and lanes end abruptly. Now I think it’ll probably be closed tomorrow.

Ordinarily, I'd agree with this but we won't have a high temp above 32 til next Thursday. I don't see the street situation getting much better til then. They need to figure out some creative plan. Maybe staggered carpool dropoffs (2 hour delay but having parents drop off kids from the normal start time to spread things out) and sending a surge of safety personnel to help walkers/bus stops/street crossing.

I know this doesn't sound very realistic. But neither is two weeks off school until we get the the point where there's more melting.

I think two weeks off school is more realistic than creative planning. I don’t envy the decision makers. Tomorrow is not happening. Early next week is questionable. I agree it raises the question of when things will be better, but if packed in snow is blocking too much in, it is what it is.

OMG they needs to open by Monday! Friday is understandable - Monday is 4 days away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was the poster who called a delay for tomorrow but I just went out and … there are no sidewalks. No cross walks. Yes the roads are clear but people are walking in the roads and lanes end abruptly. Now I think it’ll probably be closed tomorrow.

Ordinarily, I'd agree with this but we won't have a high temp above 32 til next Thursday. I don't see the street situation getting much better til then. They need to figure out some creative plan. Maybe staggered carpool dropoffs (2 hour delay but having parents drop off kids from the normal start time to spread things out) and sending a surge of safety personnel to help walkers/bus stops/street crossing.

I know this doesn't sound very realistic. But neither is two weeks off school until we get the the point where there's more melting.

I think two weeks off school is more realistic than creative planning. I don’t envy the decision makers. Tomorrow is not happening. Early next week is questionable. I agree it raises the question of when things will be better, but if packed in snow is blocking too much in, it is what it is.

OMG they needs to open by Monday! Friday is understandable - Monday is 4 days away.

Just expressing concern at the rate of improvement I am seeing. Snow needs to move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was the poster who called a delay for tomorrow but I just went out and … there are no sidewalks. No cross walks. Yes the roads are clear but people are walking in the roads and lanes end abruptly. Now I think it’ll probably be closed tomorrow.

Ordinarily, I'd agree with this but we won't have a high temp above 32 til next Thursday. I don't see the street situation getting much better til then. They need to figure out some creative plan. Maybe staggered carpool dropoffs (2 hour delay but having parents drop off kids from the normal start time to spread things out) and sending a surge of safety personnel to help walkers/bus stops/street crossing.

I know this doesn't sound very realistic. But neither is two weeks off school until we get the the point where there's more melting.

I think two weeks off school is more realistic than creative planning. I don’t envy the decision makers. Tomorrow is not happening. Early next week is questionable. I agree it raises the question of when things will be better, but if packed in snow is blocking too much in, it is what it is.

OMG they needs to open by Monday! Friday is understandable - Monday is 4 days away.

I hope they can. Honestly child care should be open today (at the provider's discretion at schools that have been plowed). But as far as it being safe for kids to get to school, I don't know. Many sidewalks are impassable right now and it's not MCPS's responsibility to clean them (nor do they have the resources)

[Anonymous]

Do we have more snow coming thus weekend? Omg.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do we have more snow coming thus weekend? Omg.

It's unlikely we'll get any additional accumulation

Becoming mostly cloudy Saturday with a slight chance of light snow late day as a coastal storm begins to ramp up to our south. For now, anything of consequence seems to stay south. It’ll be very cold, though, with highs in the mid-teens to around 20. Confidence: Medium

Still a slight chance of light snow on Sunday — anything accumulating wants to tend to stay southeast, but with it potentially as close as Southern Maryland, we’ll need to keep watch. As the storm winds up, winds probably increase, which makes highs in the mid-20s feel colder than it is. Confidence: Medium

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026/01/29/dc-weather-live-updates-cold-snow-chance/

[Anonymous]

Anyone think there WILL be school tomorrow?

[Anonymous]

Honestly I would prefer the county to close Friday and start fresh next week.