Snow day

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not about being lazy it’s about enjoying a good snow storm. It’s been a while.

We don't need it because schools need to be open. If you want to discuss the joys of winter storms, do it on the Off Topic forum. Doing it here just means you want schools closed. Lazy.

No thanks. We’ll discuss it here. Feel free to hop off the thread, since it clearly seems to be upsetting you. Bye.

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Anonymous wrote:CWG calling for 4-8” for much of the area https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/01/03/dc-region-snow-winter-storm-forecast-ice/

Stfu. Everyone else says 10-12 inches.

Weather.com says 3-5 in

That’s still 1-2 day cancellation

Yep. I want at least 2 days. Happy with 3.

Explain why you need 3 days after two weeks. Are you a teacher? Because surely your kids have had enough rest.

I don’t owe you any explanation. I want 3 days after a very busy and exhausting break.

So you want 3 more days of that busy and exhausting break? what? lol

You’re so stupid. Now that Christmas and New Years are over, yes we finally relax and need a real break.

Sorry your holidays were so miserable.
Ours were cozy and amazing! But we are ready to be back in our routines, and I need to get back to work.

Sounds like you want to go back to work as your “break.” Our holidays were amazing too - but exhausting because of all the prep. We are looking forward to 2-3 snow days. Kids will be outside in the snow and I can truly relax! No Christmas, New Years or birthdays that I have to prep for! We had two over the winter break on top of the holidays.

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Anonymous wrote:CWG calling for 4-8” for much of the area https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/01/03/dc-region-snow-winter-storm-forecast-ice/

Stfu. Everyone else says 10-12 inches.

Weather.com says 3-5 in

That’s still 1-2 day cancellation

Yep. I want at least 2 days. Happy with 3.

Explain why you need 3 days after two weeks. Are you a teacher? Because surely your kids have had enough rest.

I don’t owe you any explanation. I want 3 days after a very busy and exhausting break.

So you want 3 more days of that busy and exhausting break? what? lol

You’re so stupid. Now that Christmas and New Years are over, yes we finally relax and need a real break.

Sorry your holidays were so miserable.
Ours were cozy and amazing! But we are ready to be back in our routines, and I need to get back to work.

So go, and arrange for childcare if you need it. Done.

+1 yep

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Anonymous wrote:If there are no snow days, teachers work 13 additional days with no extra pay. For those who don’t teach, you can at least attempt to empathize. Don’t blame teachers, blame governments that can’t figure out how to make an instructional calendar. We all know your local school board will never shorten the year if we use zero snow days.

There are 13 snow days built in for Fairfax??
We used to live in Fairfax but live in Baltimore county now and I think there are 3 built in. And yes the year does shorten if we don’t use them. 13!!!! Lol

Maybe FCPS needs to do better messaging on this, but there are no extra days, just extra instructional hours. 180 student days are on the calendar. To have 3 extra days to “give back” they would have to schedule 183. They’d have to schedule 193 student days to have 13 extra.

ES Teacher

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Anonymous wrote:CWG calling for 4-8” for much of the area https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/01/03/dc-region-snow-winter-storm-forecast-ice/

Stfu. Everyone else says 10-12 inches.

Weather.com says 3-5 in

The weather channel says 1-4 on Sunday night and 3-5 on Monday and another inch Monday night.

My app on my phone says 10-12.

TWC is now showing 3-5” on Monday and accumulations less than an inch Monday night.

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Anonymous wrote:CWG calling for 4-8” for much of the area https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/01/03/dc-region-snow-winter-storm-forecast-ice/

Stfu. Everyone else says 10-12 inches.

Weather.com says 3-5 in

The weather channel says 1-4 on Sunday night and 3-5 on Monday and another inch Monday night.

My app on my phone says 10-12.

TWC is now showing 3-5” on Monday and accumulations less than an inch Monday night.

Fwiw, the lower snow totals seem to include sleet and wintry mix, which I don't really understand at those temperatures, but it means at those temperatures, an ice storm, which is much worse than snow.

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Anonymous wrote:CWG calling for 4-8” for much of the area https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/01/03/dc-region-snow-winter-storm-forecast-ice/

Stfu. Everyone else says 10-12 inches.

Weather.com says 3-5 in

The weather channel says 1-4 on Sunday night and 3-5 on Monday and another inch Monday night.

My app on my phone says 10-12.

TWC is now showing 3-5” on Monday and accumulations less than an inch Monday night.

Fwiw, the lower snow totals seem to include sleet and wintry mix, which I don't really understand at those temperatures, but it means at those temperatures, an ice storm, which is much worse than snow.

Empty nester here who is former teacher and remains deeply interesting in FCPS.
In the late nineties--I think--there were weeks of ice. It was very dangerous. My kids who had a short walk to school had to be driven because the sidewalks were covered in thick sheets of ice. It was awful.

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Please don’t let it be an ice storm! Those are the worst. I also remember the ice storms from several years ago.

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The snow totals are going down because the sleet and ice totals are going up.

You Virginians are not familiar with ice storms.

We have them in the midwest all the time.

Ice storms are an entirely different ballgame.

If you think the drivers and power outages in this area are bad when it snows, realize it is game over if we get an ice storm.

Pray that the front swings so we get the big snow part of 8-12".

We will lose a lot more trees than they do in the midwest where ice storms happen yearly.

Snow mixed with ice or just ice is also much more difficult to clear than a foot of snow.

The drivers around here will not be able handle driving on ice at all. It is a learned skill, and you cannot be an arrogant driver to drive on ice, which means 80% of the dc drivers are going to make the roads more dangerous than they should be.


If we get the ice storm, prepare for school to be out all week, due to power outages and downed trees.

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Anonymous wrote:Empty nester here who’s obsessively monitoring the weather…and this thread!

I’m pulling for a Snow Week!

Let’s get cozy! Charge those devices! Gas up your cars! Do laundry!

My husband and I both work in health care and our kids just had 2 weeks off school. I truly don’t know what we will do if we get a week of snow days. You sound like the sort of person who is wistful about Covid lockdowns and how cozy it was

Best comment today!

I was working all during Covid in healthcare support thank you very much.

Must have been really difficult for you as an empty nester. (Or, maybe some high school aged kids still home). I had infant twins and a 4 year old when lockdown started and was (still am) working as a nurse. Nothing about lockdown was pleasant. Nothing about a week off of school right after a 2 week break will be pleasant. (These kids are now in K and 4th so they still need child care). And boomers wonder why younger working parents are stressed out.

I’ve never uttered these words or entertained this thought. Surely we can make the best of it. Sledding, ⛄️, hot chocolate, baking cookies. Something (not nothing).

That sounds like a cozy and amazing day. I’m scheduled to work in the ER and so is my husband, on Monday. I’m 7-7 and he is 12-12. So, we won’t be doing any of that, we will be begging friends and neighbors to take our kids.

Oh and I forgot, risking our lives driving to and from work too.

If only you’d know that would be the expectation when you chose your professions.

Oh wait…

Of course we did. Im not blaming the snow. I’m pointing out why it’s tone deaf to gloat about national weather emergencies giving you a couple days off work and school. Weather emergencies that cause crises for others and , in fact, kill others. But you’re all like, “I can’t wait to not work for a few more days after not working for 2 weeks this is amazing and you are a total buzzkill if you don’t agree!!!!” Like have some self awareness. Would it be appropriate to crow happily about days off work for hurricanes as your neighbors house floods? Or about getting to stay home for weeks and make sourdough and not work as people were dying from covid? This is the same thing, on a smaller scale. I’m fine with driving into work on Monday. We will make it work. But you are tone deaf to brag about how amazing a snowstorm will be for you, in your WFH bubble in your house with heat and your very non essential job

No one on this page considers other people’s feelings. I have been on this page for like eight years that has never been the case, if you are unhappy with what you’re reading then get off.

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Anonymous wrote:If there are no snow days, teachers work 13 additional days with no extra pay. For those who don’t teach, you can at least attempt to empathize. Don’t blame teachers, blame governments that can’t figure out how to make an instructional calendar. We all know your local school board will never shorten the year if we use zero snow days.

That’s not true. We are contracted for 195 days. We have 195 days on our work calendar. The district builds in extra instructional hours, but no extra days.

+100, hours are built in, not days.

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If your kids are home and are the right age to be able to manage their own time/attention a bit, look into online educational camps or workbook activities. You can sit beside them to keep them on track. No, you won't be able to work without disruption, but it's not an entire write off of a day. And what's more, your kid will actually learn something (probably more than they learn in school).

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Anonymous wrote:Empty nester here who’s obsessively monitoring the weather…and this thread!

I’m pulling for a Snow Week!

Let’s get cozy! Charge those devices! Gas up your cars! Do laundry!

My husband and I both work in health care and our kids just had 2 weeks off school. I truly don’t know what we will do if we get a week of snow days. You sound like the sort of person who is wistful about Covid lockdowns and how cozy it was

Best comment today!

I was working all during Covid in healthcare support thank you very much.

Must have been really difficult for you as an empty nester. (Or, maybe some high school aged kids still home). I had infant twins and a 4 year old when lockdown started and was (still am) working as a nurse. Nothing about lockdown was pleasant. Nothing about a week off of school right after a 2 week break will be pleasant. (These kids are now in K and 4th so they still need child care). And boomers wonder why younger working parents are stressed out.

I’ve never uttered these words or entertained this thought. Surely we can make the best of it. Sledding, ⛄️, hot chocolate, baking cookies. Something (not nothing).

That sounds like a cozy and amazing day. I’m scheduled to work in the ER and so is my husband, on Monday. I’m 7-7 and he is 12-12. So, we won’t be doing any of that, we will be begging friends and neighbors to take our kids.

Oh and I forgot, risking our lives driving to and from work too.

If only you’d know that would be the expectation when you chose your professions.

Oh wait…

Of course we did. Im not blaming the snow. I’m pointing out why it’s tone deaf to gloat about national weather emergencies giving you a couple days off work and school. Weather emergencies that cause crises for others and , in fact, kill others. But you’re all like, “I can’t wait to not work for a few more days after not working for 2 weeks this is amazing and you are a total buzzkill if you don’t agree!!!!” Like have some self awareness. Would it be appropriate to crow happily about days off work for hurricanes as your neighbors house floods? Or about getting to stay home for weeks and make sourdough and not work as people were dying from covid? This is the same thing, on a smaller scale. I’m fine with driving into work on Monday. We will make it work. But you are tone deaf to brag about how amazing a snowstorm will be for you, in your WFH bubble in your house with heat and your very non essential job

No one on this page considers other people’s feelings. I have been on this page for like eight years that has never been the case, if you are unhappy with what you’re reading then get off.

True. This forum really condenses individual voices into a single, snarky voice--the a-hole who deliberately takes what you say in the wrong way and gives you s___ about it. I wouldn't be surprised if the same poster argues with themselves occasionally.

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Anonymous wrote:Empty nester here who’s obsessively monitoring the weather…and this thread!

I’m pulling for a Snow Week!

Let’s get cozy! Charge those devices! Gas up your cars! Do laundry!

My husband and I both work in health care and our kids just had 2 weeks off school. I truly don’t know what we will do if we get a week of snow days. You sound like the sort of person who is wistful about Covid lockdowns and how cozy it was

Best comment today!

I was working all during Covid in healthcare support thank you very much.

Must have been really difficult for you as an empty nester. (Or, maybe some high school aged kids still home). I had infant twins and a 4 year old when lockdown started and was (still am) working as a nurse. Nothing about lockdown was pleasant. Nothing about a week off of school right after a 2 week break will be pleasant. (These kids are now in K and 4th so they still need child care). And boomers wonder why younger working parents are stressed out.

I’ve never uttered these words or entertained this thought. Surely we can make the best of it. Sledding, ⛄️, hot chocolate, baking cookies. Something (not nothing).

That sounds like a cozy and amazing day. I’m scheduled to work in the ER and so is my husband, on Monday. I’m 7-7 and he is 12-12. So, we won’t be doing any of that, we will be begging friends and neighbors to take our kids.

Oh and I forgot, risking our lives driving to and from work too.

If only you’d know that would be the expectation when you chose your professions.

Oh wait…

Of course we did. Im not blaming the snow. I’m pointing out why it’s tone deaf to gloat about national weather emergencies giving you a couple days off work and school. Weather emergencies that cause crises for others and , in fact, kill others. But you’re all like, “I can’t wait to not work for a few more days after not working for 2 weeks this is amazing and you are a total buzzkill if you don’t agree!!!!” Like have some self awareness. Would it be appropriate to crow happily about days off work for hurricanes as your neighbors house floods? Or about getting to stay home for weeks and make sourdough and not work as people were dying from covid? This is the same thing, on a smaller scale. I’m fine with driving into work on Monday. We will make it work. But you are tone deaf to brag about how amazing a snowstorm will be for you, in your WFH bubble in your house with heat and your very non essential job

Switch careers then.

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Anonymous wrote:The snow totals are going down because the sleet and ice totals are going up.

You Virginians are not familiar with ice storms.

We have them in the midwest all the time.

Ice storms are an entirely different ballgame.

If you think the drivers and power outages in this area are bad when it snows, realize it is game over if we get an ice storm.

Pray that the front swings so we get the big snow part of 8-12".

We will lose a lot more trees than they do in the midwest where ice storms happen yearly.

Snow mixed with ice or just ice is also much more difficult to clear than a foot of snow.

The drivers around here will not be able handle driving on ice at all. It is a learned skill, and you cannot be an arrogant driver to drive on ice, which means 80% of the dc drivers are going to make the roads more dangerous than they should be.


If we get the ice storm, prepare for school to be out all week, due to power outages and downed trees.

Yes. My elderly parents went more than five days without power after an ice storm. Fortunately, they had a gas stove and a freezer full of food to eat. As my mother said, they were cold and miserable--but they ate well. They sat in the kitchen with the kettle boiling and pots of water on the stove. It was miserable. They couldn't leave to go to brother's house because the roads were impassable and brother could not get to them.
They still had copper landlines then, so they could talk on the phone. Now, that won't be so easy. Charge up now!

Get yourself a gas stove while you can.