Do you think MCPS will close for power outages tomorrow?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious what everyone thinks about the power outages from the plane crash in Montgomery Village. We can’t possibly send kids to school without power, right?

Probably just individual schools affected- not the entire county.

That is my guess. Though MCPS won’t close individual schools or clusters for weather because kids and staff may come from all over, it has closed individual schools due to lost utilities. I live in the DCC, teach at one DCC school, and my kids attend two others. We’re all going to bed right now because we expect to have school tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

This is a high power line cluster 100 feet in the air. I doubt we have crews that can ha dle this situation just waiting by locally. They're going to have to fly crews in from afar. No way power gets restored before 5 am.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

I hope they close schools. My kids would love one more day. The surprise unexpected closures are always the best.
C’mon MCPS - just call it now!

[Anonymous]

Not to mention federal authorities are probably waiting to do some analysis of what happened when the lines finally get powered down enough to perform the rescue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn’t only the affected schools close?

Schools are attended by kids from near and far. Teachers font usually luve directly in the zone. Admin and central office support is scattered. If it was 1 or 2 localized areas I would think they're open but this is effecting from silver spring to Gaithersburg. Too many effected.

Yes but not having power wouldn’t prevent teachers from going to work. It’s not like a blizzard where road conditions impact the ability to drive/bus to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn’t only the affected schools close?

Schools are attended by kids from near and far. Teachers font usually luve directly in the zone. Admin and central office support is scattered. If it was 1 or 2 localized areas I would think they're open but this is effecting from silver spring to Gaithersburg. Too many effected.

Yes but not having power wouldn’t prevent teachers from going to work. It’s not like a blizzard where road conditions impact the ability to drive/bus to school.

If they haven’t had power for over 4 hours, what are they supposed to eat before going to work? How are they supposed to do laundry and shower and all the other Sunday night and Monday morning things teachers do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not to mention federal authorities are probably waiting to do some analysis of what happened when the lines finally get powered down enough to perform the rescue.

Then the NTSB investigation. That power is not going to be on most of the day tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn’t only the affected schools close?

Schools are attended by kids from near and far. Teachers font usually luve directly in the zone. Admin and central office support is scattered. If it was 1 or 2 localized areas I would think they're open but this is effecting from silver spring to Gaithersburg. Too many effected.

Yes but not having power wouldn’t prevent teachers from going to work. It’s not like a blizzard where road conditions impact the ability to drive/bus to school.

Power outages do affect road conditions, though. There are not enough cops in the county to direct traffic at all the lights that won't be functioning. It will be a nightmare. We stupidly went out on the roads after the derecho when 75% of the lights were out and it took 2 hours to drive 3 miles.

[Anonymous]

MCPS website itself says it will close all schools if there are "widespread power outages" (See earlier post)

The question then is how they define "widespread" and whether there will still be outages tomorrow morning.

[Anonymous]

Just heard on WTOP - Pepco is saying power expected to be back sometime tomorrow afternoon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn’t only the affected schools close?

Schools are attended by kids from near and far. Teachers font usually luve directly in the zone. Admin and central office support is scattered. If it was 1 or 2 localized areas I would think they're open but this is effecting from silver spring to Gaithersburg. Too many effected.

Yes but not having power wouldn’t prevent teachers from going to work. It’s not like a blizzard where road conditions impact the ability to drive/bus to school.

If they haven’t had power for over 4 hours, what are they supposed to eat before going to work? How are they supposed to do laundry and shower and all the other Sunday night and Monday morning things teachers do?

This is not the school system concern. They will close schools if there is no power to schools or bus depots.

[Anonymous]

People lost power?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS website itself says it will close all schools if there are "widespread power outages" (See earlier post)

The question then is how they define "widespread" and whether there will still be outages tomorrow morning.

85,000 outages represents about 25% of Pepco customers in MoCo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS website itself says it will close all schools if there are "widespread power outages" (See earlier post)

The question then is how they define "widespread" and whether there will still be outages tomorrow morning.

85,000 outages represents about 25% of Pepco customers in MoCo.

PP here. Thank you that is helpful!

f that roughly translated to 25% of schools being without power at 6:00 tomorrow morning, I predict a countywide closure.