After Monday

[Anonymous]

If they open tomorrow, then they need to clearly explain why they couldn’t open today and why conditions are suddenly better tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did the sun melt away one cube of freezing rain on your house today, PP 15:00?

What progress was made today? Same for tomorrow.

"Snow and ice removal from this winter weather event has been slow, where Monday will be the first day above freezing in 9 days. MCPS crews have been working hard this past week and our facilities are ready to re-open! We know we will not have perfect conditions any time soon, but many streets and sidewalks are NOT passable for buses or safe for student walkers. Post-plowing snow piles are creating a safety hazard for our buses, creating poor visibility and blocking access to pass through and turn lanes. Many major roadways still have obstructions that have reduced lanes, making safe travel during peak traffic times difficult."

All those thing's will be true tomorrow too. I havent seen a county snow plow in 5 days.

Yes but parents are now really mad. They will find a way to open tomorrow with a two-hour delay.

Parents are always mad.

True. I will say that amid the disappointment I saw a lot of “of course they had to close — everything is a mess” in the parent chat for my kids’ ES. That was for today. That said I think they will open tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

When will they decide if Feb 17 stays closed and Mar 20th? Open both days to make up instead of in June.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did the sun melt away one cube of freezing rain on your house today, PP 15:00?

What progress was made today? Same for tomorrow.

"Snow and ice removal from this winter weather event has been slow, where Monday will be the first day above freezing in 9 days. MCPS crews have been working hard this past week and our facilities are ready to re-open! We know we will not have perfect conditions any time soon, but many streets and sidewalks are NOT passable for buses or safe for student walkers. Post-plowing snow piles are creating a safety hazard for our buses, creating poor visibility and blocking access to pass through and turn lanes. Many major roadways still have obstructions that have reduced lanes, making safe travel during peak traffic times difficult."

All those thing's will be true tomorrow too. I havent seen a county snow plow in 5 days.

Exactly where are the plows? A group of three were shoveling out a sidewalk at a busy intersection used to make wide turns on a regular non snowy day but it was absurd to see them including one who looked like a student hammering away at the blocks of freezing rain. In the wind. In lower temps than today. This is the state of the county. Half of county's budget is for MCPS. What's going on?

The roads definitely aren't very good and they totally gave up on a lot of the turn lanes. That said, I question MCPS's claim that "many neighborhood streets are barely passable for a car and school buses are much wider." I was driving all around Bethesda, Rockville and Potomac this weekend and didn't see any roads that were "barely passable for a car." I'm not pretending I drove every road in the county, but if I didn't see a single one that meets this description, then I highly doubt there are "many." If you need to, you can move bus stops out to main roads that are better cleared. The middle school and high school buses already don't come down onto many neighborhood streets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When will they decide if Feb 17 stays closed and Mar 20th? Open both days to make up instead of in June.

Huh? Feb 17th isn't marked as a possible make-up day. It's March 20th and April 15th as possible make-up days.

[Anonymous]

I wish we could gamble on what specific time they will release the decision each day.

[Anonymous]

What if instead of making stupid videos this guy had been working on disaster planning?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did the sun melt away one cube of freezing rain on your house today, PP 15:00?

What progress was made today? Same for tomorrow.

"Snow and ice removal from this winter weather event has been slow, where Monday will be the first day above freezing in 9 days. MCPS crews have been working hard this past week and our facilities are ready to re-open! We know we will not have perfect conditions any time soon, but many streets and sidewalks are NOT passable for buses or safe for student walkers. Post-plowing snow piles are creating a safety hazard for our buses, creating poor visibility and blocking access to pass through and turn lanes. Many major roadways still have obstructions that have reduced lanes, making safe travel during peak traffic times difficult."

All those thing's will be true tomorrow too. I havent seen a county snow plow in 5 days.

Exactly where are the plows? A group of three were shoveling out a sidewalk at a busy intersection used to make wide turns on a regular non snowy day but it was absurd to see them including one who looked like a student hammering away at the blocks of freezing rain. In the wind. In lower temps than today. This is the state of the county. Half of county's budget is for MCPS. What's going on?

The roads definitely aren't very good and they totally gave up on a lot of the turn lanes. That said, I question MCPS's claim that "many neighborhood streets are barely passable for a car and school buses are much wider." I was driving all around Bethesda, Rockville and Potomac this weekend and didn't see any roads that were "barely passable for a car." I'm not pretending I drove every road in the county, but if I didn't see a single one that meets this description, then I highly doubt there are "many." If you need to, you can move bus stops out to main roads that are better cleared. The middle school and high school buses already don't come down onto many neighborhood streets.

1+... Where are the plows? I too was driving all around MoCo & north DC this weekend (and some today). And I literally saw 1 plow the whole time. And that one was just driving with plow up. (And one single dude (seemingly a public employee) shoveling an embankment today.)

And also 1+ to calling BS on the "barely passable" line. There are a lot of residential roads that leave much to be desired in terms of being perfectly plowed, but mostly the issue is lack of good two-way passing margins--not roads that were entirely or even partially passable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish we could gamble on what specific time they will release the decision each day.

It was 3:40pm yesterday. they are already 10 minutes late

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish we could gamble on what specific time they will release the decision each day.

Reminds me back in the day when we used to bet a dollar on what the actual kick-off time for the Super Bowl was.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wish we could gamble on what specific time they will release the decision each day.

It was 3:40pm yesterday. they are already 10 minutes late

Notning in the message that it will be announced by 4pm today. Probably doesn't want to send out two messages like yesterday. Working it out with the unions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish we could gamble on what specific time they will release the decision each day.

It was 3:40pm yesterday. they are already 10 minutes late

Notning in the message that it will be announced by 4pm today. Probably doesn't want to send out two messages like yesterday. Working it out with the unions.

Not a good sign if there's something they need to work out with unions.

[Anonymous]

Whats taking them so long to announce??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish we could gamble on what specific time they will release the decision each day.

It was 3:40pm yesterday. they are already 10 minutes late

Notning in the message that it will be announced by 4pm today. Probably doesn't want to send out two messages like yesterday. Working it out with the unions.

Not a good sign if there's something they need to work out with unions.

Speculating?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whats taking them so long to announce??

Working out details so they don’t get it wrong like yesterday?