APS VA Snow Day Projection

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was an epic weather event. Show some grace.

We have (or some of us), all week. But my kid played 3 sports games this weekend in APS buildings, so it was okay enough for that, and there's no magical reason to believe the outdoor conditions are going to change for the next several days. This has been an entirely foreseeable situation (as far as melting conditions, or lack thereof) that they've made little attempt to address, and now we're a week+ into it.

They did foresee it. We have 13 snow days in the calendar.

And apparently we’re going to use them all for this storm, even though more snow is in the forecast.

Also, can someone explain to me APS snow day math? Are we really counting a few extra minutes at the end of each day toward our snow day allotment?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d love my trash to get picked up, too, but that’s the nature of this storm.

Good news. Unlike schools, trash pickup back to regular schedule this week.

Sort of… they say they’ll collect it if they can safely/reasonably do so, and not to report it if they don’t collect your trash.

[Anonymous]

Whoever keeps babbling about 13 snow days please stop. We get it. Nothing to see here school closed for 9 more days at least and then you welcome distance learning.

[Anonymous]

When people here mentioned making decisions about who to vote for for school board based on their willingness to leave schools closed for so long, others said "why do you care, covid restrictions are over." But the same attitude is keeping schools closed now. The superintendent has fundamentally not shown any willingness to do hard things to keep schools open - and the school board is not holding his feet to the fire.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was an epic weather event. Show some grace.

We have (or some of us), all week. But my kid played 3 sports games this weekend in APS buildings, so it was okay enough for that, and there's no magical reason to believe the outdoor conditions are going to change for the next several days. This has been an entirely foreseeable situation (as far as melting conditions, or lack thereof) that they've made little attempt to address, and now we're a week+ into it.

Even snowmagedden had melted 10 days out. We won’t get another storm like this.

They did foresee it. We have 13 snow days in the calendar.

And apparently we’re going to use them all for this storm, even though more snow is in the forecast.

Also, can someone explain to me APS snow day math? Are we really counting a few extra minutes at the end of each day toward our snow day allotment?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It was an epic weather event. Show some grace.

I feel this. But also I’d feel more grace if it wasn’t so illogical and the communication was more honest and timely.

I’d be fine with we didn’t have the staff to work on this over the weekend and tomorrow we’re going back to work. We know conditions won’t be much different Tuesday so take tomorrow to figure out a plan.

Or say they’re going to send out some altered bus stops.

Anything from planet earth.

Nothing “illogical” about it.



Some people will aggressively complain about anything. It’s like a compulsion.

As the PP said, show some grace, FFS.

It’s not logical anything major will be different Tuesday morning. I believe they could clear a couple bus stops maybe? Walkers are screwed for weeks.

They can clear out more parking lots for staff to park. They can work to clear out more of the major bus routes. The county probably used the heavy equipment for main roads first.

They need teachers in the building (place to park) and buses to run to open. More time = more roads & parking lots cleared.

You think they are going to pull all this off tomorrow when they’ve had multiple days to do it and haven’t. Why?

I think they’ll continue to make progress.

It can’t all happen at once.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2 options:

They have the capability to fix a bunch of these issues and inexplicably have not been doing all that work and will somehow get it done tomorrow. (Things have been pretty steady state since about Thursday/Friday in my neck of the woods at least. Not any significant improvement.)

OR

Things won’t look much different Tuesday.

I guess we will see.

I’m fine with it since they committed to Tuesday open.

The heavy equipment has been working to dig out the county. And they will continue to make progress.

It’s a lot of very hard snow. It’s not a trivial operation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d love my trash to get picked up, too, but that’s the nature of this storm.

Good news. Unlike schools, trash pickup back to regular schedule this week.

Kids are scheduled to go back on Tuesday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When people here mentioned making decisions about who to vote for for school board based on their willingness to leave schools closed for so long, others said "why do you care, covid restrictions are over." But the same attitude is keeping schools closed now. The superintendent has fundamentally not shown any willingness to do hard things to keep schools open - and the school board is not holding his feet to the fire.

APE trash sure loves their hysterics!

Go f yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d love my trash to get picked up, too, but that’s the nature of this storm.

Good news. Unlike schools, trash pickup back to regular schedule this week.

Sort of… they say they’ll collect it if they can safely/reasonably do so, and not to report it if they don’t collect your trash.

Not me! Haven’t had trash out since last Friday. I understand why, though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Even Loudoun is doing a two-hour delay.

Loudon does not have the same neighborhood dynamics as Arlington, get real.

Meaning what? Walkers? Poor kids? I assure you they have plenty of both.

There are much fewer areas that are high density narrow streets.

High density narrow streets with hundreds of cars still inside walls of ice narrowing lanes on both sides. Loudoun has less of that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2 options:

They have the capability to fix a bunch of these issues and inexplicably have not been doing all that work and will somehow get it done tomorrow. (Things have been pretty steady state since about Thursday/Friday in my neck of the woods at least. Not any significant improvement.)

OR

Things won’t look much different Tuesday.

I guess we will see.

I’m fine with it since they committed to Tuesday open.

The heavy equipment has been working to dig out the county. And they will continue to make progress.

It’s a lot of very hard snow. It’s not a trivial operation.

It’s not at all trivial. County facilities were all open Wednesday. So all those lots and entrances had been cleared. (They know how to clear a lot by the way and the snow is put in reasonable places.). The county has a snow removal plan and has been saying it is in phase 4 for days now…which is they have hit all primary, secondary, and residential streets at least once and they open a comment form to field specific issues sent in by residents. Were all these “heavy equipment” resources working all weekend? I was out and driving a bunch this weekend (sports were alive and well) and saw zero plows at work. I didn’t even see small equipment at work or manpower digging out, which I’d seen plenty during the week. Maybe others did. I’d be interested to hear.

I suspect most everyone took the weekend off. Which I can live with but tell us Friday afternoon you’re closed Monday and Monday you’ll be bringing out the big guns to tackle xyz. Tell us you don’t have the money to pay all the overtime for weekend work or contractors. Just say the truth. Why wait until Sunday?

APS brings this on themselves by not being more transparent. The county is very transparent about its snow removal plan, method, and operations. Their snow removal map with the plows moving around is great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2 options:

They have the capability to fix a bunch of these issues and inexplicably have not been doing all that work and will somehow get it done tomorrow. (Things have been pretty steady state since about Thursday/Friday in my neck of the woods at least. Not any significant improvement.)

OR

Things won’t look much different Tuesday.

I guess we will see.

I’m fine with it since they committed to Tuesday open.

The heavy equipment has been working to dig out the county. And they will continue to make progress.

It’s a lot of very hard snow. It’s not a trivial operation.

It’s not at all trivial. County facilities were all open Wednesday. So all those lots and entrances had been cleared. (They know how to clear a lot by the way and the snow is put in reasonable places.). The county has a snow removal plan and has been saying it is in phase 4 for days now…which is they have hit all primary, secondary, and residential streets at least once and they open a comment form to field specific issues sent in by residents. Were all these “heavy equipment” resources working all weekend? I was out and driving a bunch this weekend (sports were alive and well) and saw zero plows at work. I didn’t even see small equipment at work or manpower digging out, which I’d seen plenty during the week. Maybe others did. I’d be interested to hear.

I suspect most everyone took the weekend off. Which I can live with but tell us Friday afternoon you’re closed Monday and Monday you’ll be bringing out the big guns to tackle xyz. Tell us you don’t have the money to pay all the overtime for weekend work or contractors. Just say the truth. Why wait until Sunday?

APS brings this on themselves by not being more transparent. The county is very transparent about its snow removal plan, method, and operations. Their snow removal map with the plows moving around is great.

You’re making a lot of assumptions to ramp up your hysteria.

Chill TF out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d love my trash to get picked up, too, but that’s the nature of this storm.

Good news. Unlike schools, trash pickup back to regular schedule this week.

Not true. Arlington limited pick up to trash and recycling. Not green cans

This was an extraordinary weather event. Ice and terribly low temps. It isn’t snow removal but ice block removal.

Warm up starts Tuesday.

Ease up. No city could have handled this.

[Anonymous]

I get the county can't make people shovel the sidewalks, but it's a major fail to let people leave their cars in the streets before a snow event like this. I saw plenty of people with off street parking leaving their cars in the street rather than fill their driveways. In the rare cases where people can afford more cars than their off-street parking, they need to go to a public garage. The plows couldn't widen the streets and it takes longer to work when people use the public streets as their garage for a week.