What do we think will happen on Monday?

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It is icier today for some reason

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Anonymous wrote:It is icier today for some reason

Today is downright tropical compared to what Sunday will feel like. Brace yourself for the wind chill temps below zero.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been teaching almost 30 years and I’ve never seen an ice storm like this. I can get to school if we open but I won’t be able to drive my kids, since their school is in the opposite direction of my school. They are teens, it’s okay, they can get assignments on Schoology and make up the work until it’s safe for them to walk to the bus stop. Our street is plowed as a single lane and the sidewalks are not clear. There is no way they can walk to the bus stop, it’s far. Hopefully it’s not too long until it melts enough. I don’t think a bus can even get down our road yet.

Seriously what is up with the streets being plowed as a single lane. That’s how it is in our area too. Who had the bright idea to send a plow truck but just plow enough to make a single lane? And they did this on Sunday when the snow had not hardened to ice yet. Why couldn’t they plow wide enough to make sure the road had enough clearance? This is all on VDOT.

Do you want to pay the taxes to have VDOT equipped to handle storms that happen once every 20 years?

I am from a midwest state that gets this kind of ice storm nearly every year, sometimes twice.

We havs a lot of rednecks with pick up trucks who live for these storms.

They go out as volunteers and clear just about all the back roads in a couple of days.

People here are thinkiers, not doers, and other than the neighborhoods with lots of military and red state transplants, they cannot seem to accomplish much of anything that requires grit, hard work and ingenuity.

People are lazy and soft here.

I’m not a laborer. DH shoveled our driveway and has gone to work all week. He is a surgeon.

The streets are ice. I can drive my kids to school. We have that luxury. Not everyone can.

Ok not everyone has the luxury of their kids missing another week of learning and not getting free breakfast/lunch.

Look someone is on the crap end of any call. The who is more burdened Olympics in an attempt to bolster the outcome any of us wants is not that productive.

I was just responding to that guy who was calling us lazy for not shoveling ice.

I don’t care one way or another if school is open or not. My kids are fine if they go to school or not.

Road conditions seem poor and in our neighborhood, I’m not sure a bus could turn in and out. Our school is surrounded by narrow streets that are crowded in good conditions. Not all the streets even have sidewalks so kids will be walking on the street with cars. Parents also park on the street to walk the kids so no idea where they can park with all this ice.

Why?

DP, but parents do this at my school too. The Kiss and Ride line is extremely long and slow, backing up far into the neighborhood. Many think that parking and walking is quicker and more efficient.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

How is your school handling parking?

Hundreds of our high schoolers park on neighborhood streets that are now ice mounds.

They are letting them park on the blacktop.

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The mail isn’t being delivered, the garbage isn’t being picked up (in my neck of the woods, anyway), so I am losing confidence that the busses will be able to safely pick up and deliver children to school next week.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been teaching almost 30 years and I’ve never seen an ice storm like this. I can get to school if we open but I won’t be able to drive my kids, since their school is in the opposite direction of my school. They are teens, it’s okay, they can get assignments on Schoology and make up the work until it’s safe for them to walk to the bus stop. Our street is plowed as a single lane and the sidewalks are not clear. There is no way they can walk to the bus stop, it’s far. Hopefully it’s not too long until it melts enough. I don’t think a bus can even get down our road yet.

Seriously what is up with the streets being plowed as a single lane. That’s how it is in our area too. Who had the bright idea to send a plow truck but just plow enough to make a single lane? And they did this on Sunday when the snow had not hardened to ice yet. Why couldn’t they plow wide enough to make sure the road had enough clearance? This is all on VDOT.

Do you want to pay the taxes to have VDOT equipped to handle storms that happen once every 20 years?

I am from a midwest state that gets this kind of ice storm nearly every year, sometimes twice.

We havs a lot of rednecks with pick up trucks who live for these storms.

They go out as volunteers and clear just about all the back roads in a couple of days.

People here are thinkiers, not doers, and other than the neighborhoods with lots of military and red state transplants, they cannot seem to accomplish much of anything that requires grit, hard work and ingenuity.

People are lazy and soft here.

I’m not a laborer. DH shoveled our driveway and has gone to work all week. He is a surgeon.

The streets are ice. I can drive my kids to school. We have that luxury. Not everyone can.

Ok not everyone has the luxury of their kids missing another week of learning and not getting free breakfast/lunch.

Look someone is on the crap end of any call. The who is more burdened Olympics in an attempt to bolster the outcome any of us wants is not that productive.

I was just responding to that guy who was calling us lazy for not shoveling ice.

I don’t care one way or another if school is open or not. My kids are fine if they go to school or not.

Road conditions seem poor and in our neighborhood, I’m not sure a bus could turn in and out. Our school is surrounded by narrow streets that are crowded in good conditions. Not all the streets even have sidewalks so kids will be walking on the street with cars. Parents also park on the street to walk the kids so no idea where they can park with all this ice.

Why?

DP, but parents do this at my school too. The Kiss and Ride line is extremely long and slow, backing up far into the neighborhood. Many think that parking and walking is quicker and more efficient.

So it’s an option. A “nice to have”, but not necessary.

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Anonymous wrote:The mail isn’t being delivered, the garbage isn’t being picked up (in my neck of the woods, anyway), so I am losing confidence that the busses will be able to safely pick up and deliver children to school next week.

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I was hoping afternoon temperatures on Tuesday would melt away some of our current problems, but my weather app is now showing me heavy snow and sleet for Wednesday. Sheesh.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

How is your school handling parking?

Hundreds of our high schoolers park on neighborhood streets that are now ice mounds.

They are letting them park on the blacktop.

Thr blacktop? That could only be a few extra spots.

What school allows high schoolers to park in neighborhoods? I though paid parking passes were required.

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If there's no parking those high schoolers need to take the bus or be dropped off. Its not rocket science.

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Anonymous wrote:I was hoping afternoon temperatures on Tuesday would melt away some of our current problems, but my weather app is now showing me heavy snow and sleet for Wednesday. Sheesh.

What are you taking about? Mine is totally clear.

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Anonymous wrote:The mail isn’t being delivered, the garbage isn’t being picked up (in my neck of the woods, anyway), so I am losing confidence that the busses will be able to safely pick up and deliver children to school next week.

This!!! If the county isn’t confident sending their mail and garbage trucks out, why would we send out our school buses?

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Anonymous wrote:I was hoping afternoon temperatures on Tuesday would melt away some of our current problems, but my weather app is now showing me heavy snow and sleet for Wednesday. Sheesh.

What are you taking about? Mine is totally clear.

Really? I’m looking at my ipad weather app. It says 60 percent chance of snow/sleet on Wednesday. What weather reports do you look or think are most reliable?

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I see snow too, but less than an inch. Probably would result in a 2 hour delay as it’s not supposed to stop until 6am, when MS buses start heading out. Maybe we just delay the whole week, lol. Ridiculous and dangerous to have the poor MS kids walking in the dark in these conditions.

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Anonymous wrote:I was hoping afternoon temperatures on Tuesday would melt away some of our current problems, but my weather app is now showing me heavy snow and sleet for Wednesday. Sheesh.

What are you taking about? Mine is totally clear.

Maybe you need to read actual forecasters like CWG instead of inaccurate apps.