Wed no school or 2hr delay?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Closed all week!

And

There's another storm chance this Sunday. Start a new thread!

Based on the forecast for Monday, February 2, 2026, there is a low, minor chance of snow in Montgomery county. Daytime (Feb 2, 2026): partly sunny with a 5% chance of snow and a high near 30°F. Nighttime (Feb 2, 2026): partly cloudy with a 10% chance of snow and a low around 13°F. cold, scattered flurries.

But the % could change

[Anonymous]

Delayed.

And it is not snowing anymore so people need to be out shoveling and clearing the sidewalks in front of their house so that when school is back in session, kids can safely walk to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is weird. We usually have plows come through our main street in our neighborhood at least once or twice during a storm. Nothing so far.

Same in our neighborhood in Silver Spring. Very unusual for us to not have been plowed yet.

[Anonymous]

I checked the snowplow map to see when we'll be plowed (we're at the bottom of a hill and pretty much stuck til a plow comes through) and they estimate finishing all streets at least once by Tuesday. You might think that means schools can open on Wednesday but given that it's not warm enough for melting, I'm guessing that MCPS will still find enough roads unsafe on Tuesday that they'll cancel Wednesday.

Roads that have been plowed but are not dry down to the asphalt will partially melt in daytime sun and then refreeze as ice overnight. And 10am (delay) is not late enough for them to thaw via the sun. There's also the matter of schoolbus stops being covered in snowdrifts from the plows such that kids need to wait for the bus in the street.

I'm happy to have the break-- it was a rough first semester for my kid and it's great that this came between semesters so there are not even tests looming when she goes back, whenever that is. But I really hope they open (likely, delayed) on Thursday. But I'm afraid the same thawing/refreezing/snowdrift dynamic will continue all week so it really depends on whether they can get the salt/sand trucks out across the whole county in the early morning of wednesday or thursday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was a modest snow event. Nothing like snowmageddon or snowpocalypse. If we take more than 2-3 days to dig out of this and resume normal operations, we’re doing something wrong.

You can’t melt the ice when it’s below freezing for a week.

How do Minneapolis, Boston and Chicago make it happen?

[Anonymous]

Blame Maryland law for making the possession and use of flamethrowers illegal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This was a modest snow event. Nothing like snowmageddon or snowpocalypse. If we take more than 2-3 days to dig out of this and resume normal operations, we’re doing something wrong.

While I do not disagree, an event like this happens so infrequently here that they have cut and reduced the snow treatment and prep budgets in the county so much that when they do actually happen, we are terribly unprepared to handle them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Closed all week!

And

There's another storm chance this Sunday. Start a new thread!

Based on the forecast for Monday, February 2, 2026, there is a low, minor chance of snow in Montgomery county. Daytime (Feb 2, 2026): partly sunny with a 5% chance of snow and a high near 30°F. Nighttime (Feb 2, 2026): partly cloudy with a 10% chance of snow and a low around 13°F. cold, scattered flurries.

But the % could change

I swear some of you want bad sht to happen

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Closed all week!

And

There's another storm chance this Sunday. Start a new thread!

Based on the forecast for Monday, February 2, 2026, there is a low, minor chance of snow in Montgomery county. Daytime (Feb 2, 2026): partly sunny with a 5% chance of snow and a high near 30°F. Nighttime (Feb 2, 2026): partly cloudy with a 10% chance of snow and a low around 13°F. cold, scattered flurries.

But the % could change

I swear some of you want bad sht to happen

It's DCUM. This place THRIVES on bad news. It's the lifeblood that keeps everyone here going.

[Anonymous]

Has anyone tried to clear snow today. My driveway was clear until 4pm yesterday. Now it’s a solid 1 inch of snow. I can’t make a dent in it even when I jump up and down. It’s solid!

If they didn’t do the schools last night,

They are closed all week

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think no school all week.

The snow, sleet and ice are like concrete in these freezing temperatures. You need a tool to break up the ice, maybe a hoe or metal shovel. It is back breaking work. No way we open on Wednesday and likely not at all this week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Closed all week!

And

There's another storm chance this Sunday. Start a new thread!

Based on the forecast for Monday, February 2, 2026, there is a low, minor chance of snow in Montgomery county. Daytime (Feb 2, 2026): partly sunny with a 5% chance of snow and a high near 30°F. Nighttime (Feb 2, 2026): partly cloudy with a 10% chance of snow and a low around 13°F. cold, scattered flurries.

But the % could change

I swear some of you want bad sht to happen

It's DCUM. This place THRIVES on bad news. It's the lifeblood that keeps everyone here going.

I think they just want an excuse to stay shut in. The same people who wanted schools to close for COVID well into 2022

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone tried to clear snow today. My driveway was clear until 4pm yesterday. Now it’s a solid 1 inch of snow. I can’t make a dent in it even when I jump up and down. It’s solid!

If they didn’t do the schools last night,

They are closed all week

I don't know if they got 100% of them but they were definitely out plowing yesterday: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FtacLW18K/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think no school all week.

The snow, sleet and ice are like concrete in these freezing temperatures. You need a tool to break up the ice, maybe a hoe or metal shovel. It is back breaking work. No way we open on Wednesday and likely not at all this week.

You can break it up with a shovel, which the schools should already have for moving snow. It's work but doable. If I can clear it, there's no reason why professional building maintenance people can't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Closed all week!

And

There's another storm chance this Sunday. Start a new thread!

Based on the forecast for Monday, February 2, 2026, there is a low, minor chance of snow in Montgomery county. Daytime (Feb 2, 2026): partly sunny with a 5% chance of snow and a high near 30°F. Nighttime (Feb 2, 2026): partly cloudy with a 10% chance of snow and a low around 13°F. cold, scattered flurries.

But the % could change

I swear some of you want bad sht to happen

It's DCUM. This place THRIVES on bad news. It's the lifeblood that keeps everyone here going.

I think they just want an excuse to stay shut in. The same people who wanted schools to close for COVID well into 2022

I am a teacher who coaches football so honestly I don't really care about the school closures because I will be at school at 7 AM the first day of Summer break for workouts anyway. I also have a teenage kid so I'm not worried about my kid being crazy during snow days

I do understand that my circumstances are quite different than a lot of others who are going to have to choose between their jobs and watching their small kids this week.