What do we think will happen on Monday?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Capital weather gang said the snowpack is not melting until March. Yesterday they said this. Marginal melting during the day. Refreeze at night. This is it.

Do you think school will be closed until March?

No. But snowpack can exist as long as communities can get 70% of the sidewalks, bus stops, walking routes passable of ice. That is the goal for being able to open, not “no snowpack”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Capital weather gang said the snowpack is not melting until March. Yesterday they said this. Marginal melting during the day. Refreeze at night. This is it.

Do you think school will be closed until March?

No. But snowpack can exist as long as communities can get 70% of the sidewalks, bus stops, walking routes passable of ice. That is the goal for being able to open, not “no snowpack”

Read what was posted by capital weather gang. The sidewalks left untouched are not clearing by Wednesday. This is not it needs a couple more days situation.

[Anonymous]

Same with the roads only one lane where the snow has been plowed…that’s snowpack. Not melting in a couple days to give you your 2 lane road back.

The conditions are what they are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can blame FCPS all you want but all our school’s sidewalks and parking lots have been completely cleared up. You know what hasn’t been cleaned? Sidewalks surrounding the school and even the roads around the area. I left the house after one week and was shocked to see how none of the neighbors around our school had bothered to clean their sidewalk.

It’s a mess and it is not the fault of FCPS. They have no control over who cleans their snow or not. These people couldn’t care less about their sidewalks that are used by kids to get to school. They just didn’t bother to clean it. So please direct your anger towards VDOT and your neighbors who are too lazy to clean their snow. I just don’t understand how FCPS is at fault here and I’m a parent who has a lot of complains against FCPS.

You can blame your neighbors and county residents but this storm was not like others and shoveling several feet of sidewalk and bus stop corners became impossible and if it wasn’t done by now it’s likely not going to happen. Even if we shovel the sidewalk, the corner bus stop is now covered in a plowed 3’ pile that isn’t possible to shovel away by Monday. You can’t expect that every person in the county was going to be able to shovel sidewalks and bus stops.

I get this was a storm like no other but why did these people not shovel their sidewalk? If every resident had done their part we won’t be in this predicament right now. We are in the Langley pyramid and there are no sidewalks shoveled and the plow trucks did a terrible job cleaning the streets. Such ineptness all around. I have lived in the Midwest and in the northeast and I have never seen such a poor job of cleaning the snow. There literally is no place for the poor kids to walk! And people keep blaming FCPS which is absurd.

The blame should go to all. I from New England. Yes, we were much better at snow removal but we also didn’t let poor snow removal get in the way of school when I was a kid. If roads weren’t safe for busses (a much different standard than safe for cars generally) or bus stops weren’t clear, school was open with no bus service. If you could make it, you made it. If, it was an excused absence. I think it was fair to blame FCPS for apparently not having a contingency plan to open school if busses can’t operate. And I think it’s fair to blame any parent who would complain about opening school with no busses. If the goal is to have school open, you announce that school will be open first and then work out all of the logistics second.

[Anonymous]

We need to just get through a first messy day and everyone will figure it out. Any specific pain points will be addressed and people will find work arounds. You’re not doing any of that sitting in your house for a couple more days. That makes no sense. What is happening in those couple days to change anything?

Rip the band aid off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can blame FCPS all you want but all our school’s sidewalks and parking lots have been completely cleared up. You know what hasn’t been cleaned? Sidewalks surrounding the school and even the roads around the area. I left the house after one week and was shocked to see how none of the neighbors around our school had bothered to clean their sidewalk.

It’s a mess and it is not the fault of FCPS. They have no control over who cleans their snow or not. These people couldn’t care less about their sidewalks that are used by kids to get to school. They just didn’t bother to clean it. So please direct your anger towards VDOT and your neighbors who are too lazy to clean their snow. I just don’t understand how FCPS is at fault here and I’m a parent who has a lot of complains against FCPS.

You can blame your neighbors and county residents but this storm was not like others and shoveling several feet of sidewalk and bus stop corners became impossible and if it wasn’t done by now it’s likely not going to happen. Even if we shovel the sidewalk, the corner bus stop is now covered in a plowed 3’ pile that isn’t possible to shovel away by Monday. You can’t expect that every person in the county was going to be able to shovel sidewalks and bus stops.

I get this was a storm like no other but why did these people not shovel their sidewalk? If every resident had done their part we won’t be in this predicament right now. We are in the Langley pyramid and there are no sidewalks shoveled and the plow trucks did a terrible job cleaning the streets. Such ineptness all around. I have lived in the Midwest and in the northeast and I have never seen such a poor job of cleaning the snow. There literally is no place for the poor kids to walk! And people keep blaming FCPS which is absurd.

The blame should go to all. I from New England. Yes, we were much better at snow removal but we also didn’t let poor snow removal get in the way of school when I was a kid. If roads weren’t safe for busses (a much different standard than safe for cars generally) or bus stops weren’t clear, school was open with no bus service. If you could make it, you made it. If, it was an excused absence. I think it was fair to blame FCPS for apparently not having a contingency plan to open school if busses can’t operate. And I think it’s fair to blame any parent who would complain about opening school with no busses. If the goal is to have school open, you announce that school will be open first and then work out all of the logistics second.

This is a great approach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can blame FCPS all you want but all our school’s sidewalks and parking lots have been completely cleared up. You know what hasn’t been cleaned? Sidewalks surrounding the school and even the roads around the area. I left the house after one week and was shocked to see how none of the neighbors around our school had bothered to clean their sidewalk.

It’s a mess and it is not the fault of FCPS. They have no control over who cleans their snow or not. These people couldn’t care less about their sidewalks that are used by kids to get to school. They just didn’t bother to clean it. So please direct your anger towards VDOT and your neighbors who are too lazy to clean their snow. I just don’t understand how FCPS is at fault here and I’m a parent who has a lot of complains against FCPS.

You can blame your neighbors and county residents but this storm was not like others and shoveling several feet of sidewalk and bus stop corners became impossible and if it wasn’t done by now it’s likely not going to happen. Even if we shovel the sidewalk, the corner bus stop is now covered in a plowed 3’ pile that isn’t possible to shovel away by Monday. You can’t expect that every person in the county was going to be able to shovel sidewalks and bus stops.

I get this was a storm like no other but why did these people not shovel their sidewalk? If every resident had done their part we won’t be in this predicament right now. We are in the Langley pyramid and there are no sidewalks shoveled and the plow trucks did a terrible job cleaning the streets. Such ineptness all around. I have lived in the Midwest and in the northeast and I have never seen such a poor job of cleaning the snow. There literally is no place for the poor kids to walk! And people keep blaming FCPS which is absurd.

The blame should go to all. I from New England. Yes, we were much better at snow removal but we also didn’t let poor snow removal get in the way of school when I was a kid. If roads weren’t safe for busses (a much different standard than safe for cars generally) or bus stops weren’t clear, school was open with no bus service. If you could make it, you made it. If, it was an excused absence. I think it was fair to blame FCPS for apparently not having a contingency plan to open school if busses can’t operate. And I think it’s fair to blame any parent who would complain about opening school with no busses. If the goal is to have school open, you announce that school will be open first and then work out all of the logistics second.

Also, apologies for the typos … I was typing quickly on my phone …

[Anonymous]

Everyone should relax. We got an email from our principal (high school) explaining the plan for parking and arriving on Monday and throughout the week. They are planning to go ahead as long as nothing changes and making necessary adjustments. It will all be fine.

[Anonymous]

I went to Tyson’s mall yesterday. People are walking in the streets. Busses have no where to let ppl off. So we are going to have k-6 waiting in a one lane road for the bus? Getting dropped off and walking home in the streets?

I don’t know why no one is shoveling either. Of course now it is exponentially difficult. But I live in a neighborhood of 1.5-2 homes and most haven’t done their sidewalk. We did ours but our neighbors plow created a 4 foot wall of snow at the end of ours by their driveway

[Anonymous]

I think they’ll open with a delay. Our principal has suggested that staff carpool or get dropped off by someone else. They have also asked for plowing to be done to make space for kids and ride.

[Anonymous]

80s kid here. We would have been at school all but last Monday. Maybe Monday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to Tyson’s mall yesterday. People are walking in the streets. Busses have no where to let ppl off. So we are going to have k-6 waiting in a one lane road for the bus? Getting dropped off and walking home in the streets?

I don’t know why no one is shoveling either. Of course now it is exponentially difficult. But I live in a neighborhood of 1.5-2 homes and most haven’t done their sidewalk. We did ours but our neighbors plow created a 4 foot wall of snow at the end of ours by their driveway

Yes this is what is going to happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:80s kid here. We would have been at school all but last Monday. Maybe Monday.

Did you live in Vermont? I graduated from a Fairfax high school in 96 and we missed over two weeks of school due to one snow storm my senior year.

[Anonymous]

Reid is going to follow the lead of other counties. We won’t be the only schools closed nor the only ones open. Any idea where LCPS and APS are leaning?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:80s kid here. We would have been at school all but last Monday. Maybe Monday.

Did you live in Vermont? I graduated from a Fairfax high school in 96 and we missed over two weeks of school due to one snow storm my senior year.

+1, my relatives have also missed school all week in Ohio. They got 12 inches with no ice. The driveway was cleared by Monday and roads by Tuesday. It’s a different world now.