Wed no school or 2hr delay?

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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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

+1. And then your special snowflake child won’t have to set foot in the ice and cold and can hibernate like a bear in the wintertime.

[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.

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

Sure, because someone “rolling in it” to live in a $750k house has the money to pay to have their street plowed.

Any other basic county services you want to strip from those making a bit more than the county average?

[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.

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

DP. Our small dead-end street hasn’t been plowed. Not a single house worth $750k. Get out of your angry victim complex.

[Anonymous]

Chuck Bell @ NBC4 predicted no school this week, on Saturday!. I nominate Chuck for Superintendent. He gives it to you straight...no chaser, no video. PGCPS already closed schools through Thursday. Parents, enjoy your offsprings for 1 week.We do for 180 days. #dobettermcps

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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.

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.

That would be one option. Pay someone to get you. Walk out to a bigger road and get picked up.

And if you get really desperate, you could even take a bus with the poors! I know, I know- that's clearly too much.

[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.

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

DP. Our small dead-end street hasn’t been plowed. Not a single house worth $750k. Get out of your angry victim complex.

Anyone that knows the demographics of the area knows that's an exceptional case, if you're telling truth at all.

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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?

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.

That 20 degrees doesn't change anything. Put on a jacket, hat, and gloves. Sorry, you might be uncomfortable. But it isn't dangerous.

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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.

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.

That would be one option. Pay someone to get you. Walk out to a bigger road and get picked up.

And if you get really desperate, you could even take a bus with the poors! I know, I know- that's clearly too much.

Yeah, the county bus network really covers all areas.

[Anonymous]

Winter Storm Update
The Montgomery County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) Storm Operations Center continues to monitor and respond to the winter storm. Crews went from plowing only primary roads to removing snow and ice from neighborhood roads Monday morning around 8 a.m. A first pass with a snowplow on neighborhood roads is expected to be complete by Tuesday afternoon. Residents can expect streets to be passable but should not expect to see bare pavement.

Winter Storm Update
The Montgomery County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) Storm Operations Center continues to monitor and respond to the winter storm. Crews went from plowing only primary roads to removing snow and ice from neighborhood roads Monday morning around 8 a.m. A first pass with a snowplow on neighborhood roads is expected to be complete by Tuesday afternoon. Residents can expect streets to be passable but should not expect to see bare pavement.

Straight From The MoCo Gov't Horse's Mouth:
The County prioritizes plowing primary streets so that emergency vehicles can reach each residential home within approximately one-quarter mile. Once primary streets are clear, County crews begin plowing residential roads. Plows may be pulled back to maintain primary streets. Additionally, snow is being actively hauled out of some intersections of the downtown areas of Bethesda, Silver Spring, and Wheaton.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

+1. And then your special snowflake child won’t have to set foot in the ice and cold and can hibernate like a bear in the wintertime.

If you want to insist that no child attends school when it’s below 30 degrees or when there’s ice on the road, there needs to be like 8 snow days built into the McPS calendar. And we start school earlier in August or go to school later in June

[Anonymous]

Straight From The MoCo Gov't Horse's Mouth:
The County prioritizes plowing primary streets so that emergency vehicles can reach each residential home within approximately one-quarter mile. Once primary streets are clear, County crews begin plowing residential roads. Plows may be pulled back to maintain primary streets. Additionally, snow is being actively hauled out of some intersections of the downtown areas of Bethesda, Silver Spring, and Wheaton.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

+1. And then your special snowflake child won’t have to set foot in the ice and cold and can hibernate like a bear in the wintertime.

Then offer our kids bus service as 2 miles in the cold, ice, snow is a bit much.

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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.

I am from New England and I remember the Blizzard of 78! I never lived close enough to walk to school but the norm there is that everyone spends all winter commuting to school/work in boots and parkas. Including adults btw - I worked for about a decade in Boston. And every HS dropout with a pickup truck makes a fortune plowing in the winter. It's just different here - there are very plows, no one owns commuter boots and most winters you don't really need them! Personally, I wish that was not the case but I'm old enough to stop fighting reality

Which is why it's a little crazy to insist that school must return to normal in 24 hours with tons of neighborhoods still fully snowed in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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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.

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

Get out of your bubble. Plenty of houses worth $400-600K