MCPS closing/delaying on Monday?

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Anonymous wrote:Geez, that video is really cheesy….

I loved it! Don’t worry, it’s a snow day.

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Anonymous wrote:People who are upset about the schools being closed may not recall what has happened in the past. In the past, the county had problems plowing side/neighborhood streets. I recall one year it was days before side streets were plowed.

You cannot blame MCPS that the buses cant pick up students and cannot reach the schools when the streets are not plowed.

You cannot compare Montgomery County’s snow preparedness to a county in Massachusetts. We dont get enough snow on a regular basis to warrant spending the money. The downside, however, is that every 3-5 years school is closed for more than one day.

MCPS is closed for multiple day stretches almost every year! Remember almost exactly one year ago? Almost the same situation. Snow on Monday. Streets were cleared on Tuesday, but MCPS didn't bother shoveling their sidewalks until Thursday morning.

Yeah that was pretty bad. They hadn't done anything. I remember we were picking up my kid from the childcare provider at the school on Tuesday afternoon and the school sidewalks we're covered in ice. Not a soul in sight working to clear them.

Your school let the child care program operate on Tuesday? Everything was shut down at our elementary school until Thursday.

It was understandable that Tuesday was a mess. But there was no reason they couldn't have gotten their act together to open on Wednesday.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Geez, that video is really cheesy….

I loved it! Don’t worry, it’s a snow day.

Not for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People who are upset about the schools being closed may not recall what has happened in the past. In the past, the county had problems plowing side/neighborhood streets. I recall one year it was days before side streets were plowed.

You cannot blame MCPS that the buses cant pick up students and cannot reach the schools when the streets are not plowed.

You cannot compare Montgomery County’s snow preparedness to a county in Massachusetts. We dont get enough snow on a regular basis to warrant spending the money. The downside, however, is that every 3-5 years school is closed for more than one day.

More than a week

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People who are upset about the schools being closed may not recall what has happened in the past. In the past, the county had problems plowing side/neighborhood streets. I recall one year it was days before side streets were plowed.

You cannot blame MCPS that the buses cant pick up students and cannot reach the schools when the streets are not plowed.

You cannot compare Montgomery County’s snow preparedness to a county in Massachusetts. We dont get enough snow on a regular basis to warrant spending the money. The downside, however, is that every 3-5 years school is closed for more than one day.

MCPS is closed for multiple day stretches almost every year! Remember almost exactly one year ago? Almost the same situation. Snow on Monday. Streets were cleared on Tuesday, but MCPS didn't bother shoveling their sidewalks until Thursday morning.

Yeah that was pretty bad. They hadn't done anything. I remember we were picking up my kid from the childcare provider at the school on Tuesday afternoon and the school sidewalks we're covered in ice. Not a soul in sight working to clear them.

Your school let the child care program operate on Tuesday? Everything was shut down at our elementary school until Thursday.

It was understandable that Tuesday was a mess. But there was no reason they couldn't have gotten their act together to open on Wednesday.

That was 3-4 inches. Bethesda is in the 12” range. Add ice and refreezing.

Get childcare for the week.

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Anonymous wrote:Okay so the forecast looks pretty clear on sizeable snowfall starting late Sunday into Monday. This is a clearly going to have a snow day scenario IMO. When will MCPS announce that? This afternoon? This evening? Tomorrow morning?

They will call by 8pm tonight
Cancelled

Call at 8pm tomorrow night
Cancelled for Tues

Call at 5am Wed
Cancelled for Wednesday

Call at 5am Thurs
2hr delay on Thursday

lol. Sorry, you're going to have to go to work before that!

I’ve lived here a long time. PP’s prediction looks spot-on to me. If the forecast holds, we will be out for 3 days and then we’ll have a delay.

-not a MCPS employee.

No, not for snow that ends on Monday night. This isn't a Snowpocalypse winter storm.

A functional district would open with a delay on Tuesday. Even a non-functional district will be able to open on Wednesday.

You are joking? Some areas of the county will have a foot of snow by Tuesday morning. The county doesn’t consider school parking lots a priority and MCPS has 211 parking lots. Once those lots are cleaned and it won’t be by Tuesday night at the absolute earliest, the schools crew comes in to do all the school walkways and sidewalks.

Oh and not to mention clearing out the bus lots and all the buses and hoping they all start in the frigid cold expected all week.

Plan on no school Wednesday

Frigid cold? Look at the forecast again. The overnight lows are still in the upper teens. That's plenty warm to start even the diesel engines in buses. Don't be hysterical.

Oh, that’s rich. The “hysterical” people here are the parents dramatically foot stomping “No! They will open! They will they will!!”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People who are upset about the schools being closed may not recall what has happened in the past. In the past, the county had problems plowing side/neighborhood streets. I recall one year it was days before side streets were plowed.

You cannot blame MCPS that the buses cant pick up students and cannot reach the schools when the streets are not plowed.

You cannot compare Montgomery County’s snow preparedness to a county in Massachusetts. We dont get enough snow on a regular basis to warrant spending the money. The downside, however, is that every 3-5 years school is closed for more than one day.

MCPS is closed for multiple day stretches almost every year! Remember almost exactly one year ago? Almost the same situation. Snow on Monday. Streets were cleared on Tuesday, but MCPS didn't bother shoveling their sidewalks until Thursday morning.

Yeah that was pretty bad. They hadn't done anything. I remember we were picking up my kid from the childcare provider at the school on Tuesday afternoon and the school sidewalks we're covered in ice. Not a soul in sight working to clear them.

Your school let the child care program operate on Tuesday? Everything was shut down at our elementary school until Thursday.

It was understandable that Tuesday was a mess. But there was no reason they couldn't have gotten their act together to open on Wednesday.

Sorry that must have been Wednesday afternoon. Skies and streets were clear but the ES was a mess.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People who are upset about the schools being closed may not recall what has happened in the past. In the past, the county had problems plowing side/neighborhood streets. I recall one year it was days before side streets were plowed.

You cannot blame MCPS that the buses cant pick up students and cannot reach the schools when the streets are not plowed.

You cannot compare Montgomery County’s snow preparedness to a county in Massachusetts. We dont get enough snow on a regular basis to warrant spending the money. The downside, however, is that every 3-5 years school is closed for more than one day.

MCPS is closed for multiple day stretches almost every year! Remember almost exactly one year ago? Almost the same situation. Snow on Monday. Streets were cleared on Tuesday, but MCPS didn't bother shoveling their sidewalks until Thursday morning.

Yeah that was pretty bad. They hadn't done anything. I remember we were picking up my kid from the childcare provider at the school on Tuesday afternoon and the school sidewalks we're covered in ice. Not a soul in sight working to clear them.

Your school let the child care program operate on Tuesday? Everything was shut down at our elementary school until Thursday.

It was understandable that Tuesday was a mess. But there was no reason they couldn't have gotten their act together to open on Wednesday.

That was 3-4 inches. Bethesda is in the 12” range. Add ice and refreezing.

Get childcare for the week.

Those of us that have childcare have to find different childcare when MCPS closes buildings.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People who are upset about the schools being closed may not recall what has happened in the past. In the past, the county had problems plowing side/neighborhood streets. I recall one year it was days before side streets were plowed.

You cannot blame MCPS that the buses cant pick up students and cannot reach the schools when the streets are not plowed.

You cannot compare Montgomery County’s snow preparedness to a county in Massachusetts. We dont get enough snow on a regular basis to warrant spending the money. The downside, however, is that every 3-5 years school is closed for more than one day.

MCPS is closed for multiple day stretches almost every year! Remember almost exactly one year ago? Almost the same situation. Snow on Monday. Streets were cleared on Tuesday, but MCPS didn't bother shoveling their sidewalks until Thursday morning.

Yeah that was pretty bad. They hadn't done anything. I remember we were picking up my kid from the childcare provider at the school on Tuesday afternoon and the school sidewalks we're covered in ice. Not a soul in sight working to clear them.

Your school let the child care program operate on Tuesday? Everything was shut down at our elementary school until Thursday.

It was understandable that Tuesday was a mess. But there was no reason they couldn't have gotten their act together to open on Wednesday.

That was 3-4 inches. Bethesda is in the 12” range. Add ice and refreezing.

Get childcare for the week.

12 inches isn't much and Bethesda will be plowed out quickly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Okay so the forecast looks pretty clear on sizeable snowfall starting late Sunday into Monday. This is a clearly going to have a snow day scenario IMO. When will MCPS announce that? This afternoon? This evening? Tomorrow morning?

They will call by 8pm tonight
Cancelled

Call at 8pm tomorrow night
Cancelled for Tues

Call at 5am Wed
Cancelled for Wednesday

Call at 5am Thurs
2hr delay on Thursday

lol. Sorry, you're going to have to go to work before that!

Not a teacher and I work from home. My youngest of 4 is a sophomore and I know MCPS. They won’t even begin to shovel out schools until mid day Tuesday and the school parking lots and walkways will not be done and treated by Wednesday morning. It will easily be 3 days off

Mid-day Tuesday leaves plenty of time to clear parking lots and walkways by Wednesday morning.

I think we'll find that last January's failure was a wake-up call to MCPS admin. It was very unusual for the county to publicly call out MCPS's BS about the response to that storm. As screwed up as MCPS is, they must have made changes after that. I don't think we'll see a repeat.

LOL

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People who are upset about the schools being closed may not recall what has happened in the past. In the past, the county had problems plowing side/neighborhood streets. I recall one year it was days before side streets were plowed.

You cannot blame MCPS that the buses cant pick up students and cannot reach the schools when the streets are not plowed.

You cannot compare Montgomery County’s snow preparedness to a county in Massachusetts. We dont get enough snow on a regular basis to warrant spending the money. The downside, however, is that every 3-5 years school is closed for more than one day.

MCPS is closed for multiple day stretches almost every year! Remember almost exactly one year ago? Almost the same situation. Snow on Monday. Streets were cleared on Tuesday, but MCPS didn't bother shoveling their sidewalks until Thursday morning.

Yeah that was pretty bad. They hadn't done anything. I remember we were picking up my kid from the childcare provider at the school on Tuesday afternoon and the school sidewalks we're covered in ice. Not a soul in sight working to clear them.

Your school let the child care program operate on Tuesday? Everything was shut down at our elementary school until Thursday.

It was understandable that Tuesday was a mess. But there was no reason they couldn't have gotten their act together to open on Wednesday.

That was 3-4 inches. Bethesda is in the 12” range. Add ice and refreezing.

Get childcare for the week.

Those of us that have childcare have to find different childcare when MCPS closes buildings.

(And we don't get a discount on our main childcare provider when MCPS doesn't allow them to open)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Okay so the forecast looks pretty clear on sizeable snowfall starting late Sunday into Monday. This is a clearly going to have a snow day scenario IMO. When will MCPS announce that? This afternoon? This evening? Tomorrow morning?

They will call by 8pm tonight
Cancelled

Call at 8pm tomorrow night
Cancelled for Tues

Call at 5am Wed
Cancelled for Wednesday

Call at 5am Thurs
2hr delay on Thursday

lol. Sorry, you're going to have to go to work before that!

Not a teacher and I work from home. My youngest of 4 is a sophomore and I know MCPS. They won’t even begin to shovel out schools until mid day Tuesday and the school parking lots and walkways will not be done and treated by Wednesday morning. It will easily be 3 days off

Mid-day Tuesday leaves plenty of time to clear parking lots and walkways by Wednesday morning.

I think we'll find that last January's failure was a wake-up call to MCPS admin. It was very unusual for the county to publicly call out MCPS's BS about the response to that storm. As screwed up as MCPS is, they must have made changes after that. I don't think we'll see a repeat.

MCPS never makes changes and there has never been a storm of a foot of snow and ice where schools weren’t closed for 3 days. If it was ending early Monday, maybe but the warning ends 1am Tuesday. If you all think the county will have 200+ school parking lots, bus lots, and walkways all cleared and treated in less than 24hrs, you are delusional.

I think there are some posters on this thread who aren’t aware of how much work there is to do (bus lots, parking lots, sidewalks, damage to school buildings, heating concerns, pipes, access roads, etc.).

They also aren’t aware of staffing issues, and that there isn’t an army of people at the ready to prepare all of these schools.

So to them, this is easy.

But you see, they don’t CARE. Their KIDS have been HOME for TWO WEEKS (insert dramatic gasp here).

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Anonymous wrote:"Damage to school buildings, heating concerns, pipes"? It's barely below freezing and its just snow.

You people are ridiculous. Schools in the northeast don't have armies of facilities workers, either. They get it done because they're expected to get it done, and everyone accepts that the objective is "good enough" not "perfectly cleared of any evidence of snow".

You are severely underestimating the size of Montgomery County (and the attendant work) versus townships and towns in the NE.

And Montgomery County has correspondingly more resources.

Look at the large cities in the northeast. They don't shut down for several days for 6 inches of snow.

Blah blah blah THE NORTHEAST. Sounds like you need to move.

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Anonymous wrote:Amending my previous prediction for Monday and Tuesday called as snow days to include a Wednesday delay due to frostbite and 20 below temps.


A Cold Emergency Alert has been issued from 12 am Mon, 1/6 to 9 am Wed, 1/8. With wind chill values to be below 20 degrees and frostbite on exposed skin within 30 minutes and/or hypothermia.

It's not going to be -20F. I don't know where you got that idea. It will be upper teens.

Typo but the bet remains

Why do you think that would matter? Upper teens isn't a serious frostbite risk.

The warning says frostbite within 30 minutes until 9. Kids have to wait for the buses in the morning and walk.

It doesn’t matter what I think. Wait and see.

Tell your kids to put their hands in their pockets if they don't have gloves. Upper teens was still outdoor recess temperature when I grew up.

People in this area seem to lack common sense.

They won’t need to “put their hands in their pockets,” because opening will be (at least) delayed.

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Anonymous wrote:They just sent an email which is silly given its not snowing yet.

Weather forecasting has greatly improved in the last 25 years. And even if it didn't start tonight, we couldn't be sure it wouldn't start during the school day tomorrow. They had to close. But they shouldn't celebate.

Why not celebrate? The kids are all celebrating. That’s what it is about. Embrace your inner child.

Think of the parents scrambling because they still have to work but now don't have child care. Or the kids with special needs that are going to miss out services, likely for several days.

Yes, this closure is necessary. And yes, NT kids will celebrate. But adults shouldn't. Thousands are being impacted negatively by this.

Please grow so very much up.