Wed no school or 2hr delay?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No school Wednesday and maybe even not Thursday

I’m starting to agree. We haven’t even had a single pass from a plow.

We are a relatively small, dead end street, so I understand we are low on the priority list, but I am sure we are not alone.

Perhaps not alone, but certainly in a small minority.

Most people with kids don't have the money to live in places like that. They live in higher density areas that were generally cleared yesterday.

I bet you have the money to come up with a solution to your problem.

I love how dcum loves to make everything about class (or race).

Why would you assume this is a wealthy area? You can have small cul-de-sacs in wealthy or not wealthy areas. And if you are saying most people in the county live in urban-ish areas, you are wrong.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No school Wednesday and maybe even not Thursday

I’m starting to agree. We haven’t even had a single pass from a plow.

We are a relatively small, dead end street, so I understand we are low on the priority list, but I am sure we are not alone.

Perhaps not alone, but certainly in a small minority.

Most people with kids don't have the money to live in places like that. They live in higher density areas that were generally cleared yesterday.

I bet you have the money to come up with a solution to your problem.

You are crazy. A high percentage of streets haven’t had a single pass per the link that has been circulating. Our street had a plow go through one time, and honestly it just packed in the driveways even more. I gather there are parts of Bethesda that are pristine, but there are neighborhoods throughout the county that aren’t even close.

This isn’t a Bethesda v not Bethesda thing. My street in Bethesda has yet to get a single pass.

A poster was saying that in Germantown a lot of streets had been plowed as of early this morning. My Bethesda street saw a plow at lunch time

If you live in Bethesda, you've clearly got the resources to figure it out. And those hourly child care workers certainly aren't living in the million-dollar homes on unplowed streets.

[Anonymous]

DCUM thread trying not to devolve into ad hominem attacks challenge (impossible):

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No school Wednesday and maybe even not Thursday

I’m starting to agree. We haven’t even had a single pass from a plow.

We are a relatively small, dead end street, so I understand we are low on the priority list, but I am sure we are not alone.

Perhaps not alone, but certainly in a small minority.

Most people with kids don't have the money to live in places like that. They live in higher density areas that were generally cleared yesterday.

I bet you have the money to come up with a solution to your problem.

I love how dcum loves to make everything about class (or race).

Why would you assume this is a wealthy area? You can have small cul-de-sacs in wealthy or not wealthy areas. And if you are saying most people in the county live in urban-ish areas, you are wrong.

There's almost no way that house is worth less than $750k. You can figure it out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCUM thread trying not to devolve into ad hominem attacks challenge (impossible):

People are shamelessly posting ridiculous things. Basically, they don't want school until the snow melts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bus stops have piles in front of them. The sleet has made it really hard to move. It’s just getting colder and harder as the week goes

Again, how do you think the rest of the country deals with this? It isn't the problem you think it is.

The rest of the country does not have below zero wind chills creating hypothermia and frost bite

Yes, many places do. Are you serious?

[Anonymous]

Closed Wednesday and Thursday. 2 hour delay on Friday.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bus stops have piles in front of them. The sleet has made it really hard to move. It’s just getting colder and harder as the week goes

Again, how do you think the rest of the country deals with this? It isn't the problem you think it is.

The rest of the country does not have below zero wind chills creating hypothermia and frost bite

Yes, many places do. Are you serious?

The ignorance from these posters is staggering. I thought Montgomery County was supposed to have educated residents.

[Anonymous]

I live on a busy street near NIH that gets plowed early and often. It also happens to have an elementary school. At noon today almost nothing else in the area was plowed - not reasonably big "side" streets, not the parking lots of many shops and supermarkets. By 7pm when we had to go out for a medical issue, there was a bit more plowing done, but for the most part it's still a tundra. And this is close-in, not rural MoCo.

The sidewalk issue is real. Today there was little traffic and people were walking on major streets (Connecticut Avenue!) because the sidewalks are totally blocked. Even where neighbors did their part, the snowplows dumped a lot of snow onto sidewalks.

We shovelled 5 times on Sunday. Still when we got up this morning at 8am there was a frozen coating a few inches deep that broke one of our shovels. It got easier during the day but I can't clear the packed down snow on the sidewalk without a pickaxe. (I did see for the first time in more than 20 yrs a tiny sidewalk snowplow yesterday, courtesy of MoCo apparently, but it came early in the day and the final few inches aren't budging.)

I'm from New England and the first to complain about MCPS weather phobia and closures. But I don't see any possibility that schools open on Wednesday. Maybe Thurs/Fri with a 2hr delay? And supposedly there's more snow coming on the weekend!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live on a busy street near NIH that gets plowed early and often. It also happens to have an elementary school. At noon today almost nothing else in the area was plowed - not reasonably big "side" streets, not the parking lots of many shops and supermarkets. By 7pm when we had to go out for a medical issue, there was a bit more plowing done, but for the most part it's still a tundra. And this is close-in, not rural MoCo.

The sidewalk issue is real. Today there was little traffic and people were walking on major streets (Connecticut Avenue!) because the sidewalks are totally blocked. Even where neighbors did their part, the snowplows dumped a lot of snow onto sidewalks.

We shovelled 5 times on Sunday. Still when we got up this morning at 8am there was a frozen coating a few inches deep that broke one of our shovels. It got easier during the day but I can't clear the packed down snow on the sidewalk without a pickaxe. (I did see for the first time in more than 20 yrs a tiny sidewalk snowplow yesterday, courtesy of MoCo apparently, but it came early in the day and the final few inches aren't budging.)

I'm from New England and the first to complain about MCPS weather phobia and closures. But I don't see any possibility that schools open on Wednesday. Maybe Thurs/Fri with a 2hr delay? And supposedly there's more snow coming on the weekend!

If you're actually from New England, then you absolutely walked on unshoveled sidewalks as a kid. You know that isn't a reason to close schools for days on end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bus stops have piles in front of them. The sleet has made it really hard to move. It’s just getting colder and harder as the week goes

Again, how do you think the rest of the country deals with this? It isn't the problem you think it is.

The rest of the country does not have below zero wind chills creating hypothermia and frost bite

Yes, many places do. Are you serious?

The ignorance from these posters is staggering. I thought Montgomery County was supposed to have educated residents.

The above was a pretty stupid post. I have relatives that live in New Hampshire and Vermont where big snow falls are a regular occurrence. They don’t cancel school because a kid might feel cold waiting for a school bus.

[Anonymous]

If you believe the news meteorologists they claim possible closures until Thursday at least. Some local towns haven’t even seen a plow yet!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No school Wednesday and maybe even not Thursday

I’m starting to agree. We haven’t even had a single pass from a plow.

We are a relatively small, dead end street, so I understand we are low on the priority list, but I am sure we are not alone.

Perhaps not alone, but certainly in a small minority.

Most people with kids don't have the money to live in places like that. They live in higher density areas that were generally cleared yesterday.

I bet you have the money to come up with a solution to your problem.

By figure it out, are you suggesting people should pay to have their public street plowed privately?

Otherwise, I am not aware of how affluence will help you drive under 7+ inches of unplowed snow and ice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, we have tons of neighbors who do not shovel their sidewalks.

It’s going to be dangerous for kids waiting for the bus in the morning, especially high school kids who are out then when it is still dark.

There were tons of kids out today playing in the snow and sledding despite many sidewalks not being perfectly shoveled. Kids aren’t made of glass.

Cold weather isn’t a reason not to hold school. If you feel it is we should cancel quite a bit of summer vacation so we can start school in early August like they do in the Deep South and you can add a dozen snow/weather days to the calendar.
It is very cold out. We saw a couple of kids out with sleds, and we have deep footprints on the sidewalks where those couple of kids walked. No packed down snow. The shovel squad we were expecting today did not show up, so our sidewalk did not get cleared, and the end of the driveway is fully covered with plow snow, so we have a lot of work to do tomorrow. A school bus drives on our street, but in the current situation it would be a dangerous walk. Thursday delay is the earliest I can imagine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bus stops have piles in front of them. The sleet has made it really hard to move. It’s just getting colder and harder as the week goes

Again, how do you think the rest of the country deals with this? It isn't the problem you think it is.

The rest of the country does not have below zero wind chills creating hypothermia and frost bite

Yes, many places do. Are you serious?

The ignorance from these posters is staggering. I thought Montgomery County was supposed to have educated residents.

The above was a pretty stupid post. I have relatives that live in New Hampshire and Vermont where big snow falls are a regular occurrence. They don’t cancel school because a kid might feel cold waiting for a school bus.

For us this is not a regard occurrence. We are 20 degrees below average.