Please tell me there is snow/ice/sleet somewhere in the county

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They cancel based on FORECASTS.

Forecasts are predictions based on models, which are not guaranteed.

This isn't that hard to understand. I don't get why people get their panties in a bunch because a forecast is wrong. Do they not understand what a forecast is?

Don’t you think they should cancel based on the actual conditions? They could have cancelled all activities for today IF it actually started sleeting or the conditions were bad. Same for school. Forecasts are more often wrong than right.

The Titanic doesn’t turn on a dime.

If you wait until the snow/sleet is actually falling to make the call, by the time you warm up the buses and get them deployed, you’ve got kids on buses out on the road in the worst of it. Or kids stranded at school because parents can’t get there on short notice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They cancel based on FORECASTS.

Forecasts are predictions based on models, which are not guaranteed.

This isn't that hard to understand. I don't get why people get their panties in a bunch because a forecast is wrong. Do they not understand what a forecast is?

Don’t you think they should cancel based on the actual conditions? They could have cancelled all activities for today IF it actually started sleeting or the conditions were bad. Same for school. Forecasts are more often wrong than right.

The Titanic doesn’t turn on a dime.

If you wait until the snow/sleet is actually falling to make the call, by the time you warm up the buses and get them deployed, you’ve got kids on buses out on the road in the worst of it. Or kids stranded at school because parents can’t get there on short notice.

For today??Saturday??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They cancel based on FORECASTS.

Forecasts are predictions based on models, which are not guaranteed.

This isn't that hard to understand. I don't get why people get their panties in a bunch because a forecast is wrong. Do they not understand what a forecast is?

Don’t you think they should cancel based on the actual conditions? They could have cancelled all activities for today IF it actually started sleeting or the conditions were bad. Same for school. Forecasts are more often wrong than right.

The Titanic doesn’t turn on a dime.

If you wait until the snow/sleet is actually falling to make the call, by the time you warm up the buses and get them deployed, you’ve got kids on buses out on the road in the worst of it. Or kids stranded at school because parents can’t get there on short notice.

For today??Saturday??

+1 Making the call countywide makes sense for deciding whether to open on time/delay/close schools for instruction. For activities? Good lord they need to trust individual facilities to make the call. We attended three different activities today. Thankfully the ones in the afternoon were not county operated. It can be done.

[Anonymous]

School day decisions and considerations are very different than a weekend call. It was totally unnecessary to make a closure call for a 6pm event at 6am based on a forecast. I understand the need to plan and be cautious BUT they very easily could have waited until noon to make a decision about afternoon/evening activities—at which point they would have had more accurate info.