Delay on Thursday? Or not?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If they change it at 5 am, I will literally scream. This kid needs to go back to school. Only here does 3 inches of snow shut schools for a week

Today wasn’t canceled because of snow. It was canceled because of ice. Icy conditions will close schools almost anywhere.

No, the conditions this morning would not have closed schools "almost anywhere." It's not like there was freezing rain overnight. If schools always closed for this, then schools in the upper midwest would never open in the winter.

I grew up in the upper Midwest. We cancelled for ice. The difference is that our school district was just our small town, with a population of 12,000. We didn’t have to close when it was icy somewhere else in our county, including rural areas. Here, school districts go by county, so maybe the roads were clear everywhere you’ve been in the last 48 hours, but multiple people here have posted that their neighborhood elsewhere in MoCo was a sheet of ice today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If they change it at 5 am, I will literally scream. This kid needs to go back to school. Only here does 3 inches of snow shut schools for a week

Today wasn’t canceled because of snow. It was canceled because of ice. Icy conditions will close schools almost anywhere.

No, the conditions this morning would not have closed schools "almost anywhere." It's not like there was freezing rain overnight. If schools always closed for this, then schools in the upper midwest would never open in the winter.

I grew up in the upper Midwest. We cancelled for ice. The difference is that our school district was just our small town, with a population of 12,000. We didn’t have to close when it was icy somewhere else in our county, including rural areas. Here, school districts go by county, so maybe the roads were clear everywhere you’ve been in the last 48 hours, but multiple people here have posted that their neighborhood elsewhere in MoCo was a sheet of ice today.

Midwest is also more consistently cold so you don't get the thaw and refreeze that leads to the slipperiest, most hard-to-remove ice. (Also grew up in the midwest).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They could still change to a delay. It’s going to be in the low teens when HS kids are walking their 2 miles to school. Everything will refreeze. Only bus routes in our area were treated properly. Every other road is a mess

+1, can we just do a delay please? Counts as a full day and kids are in class and learning (for all you people obsessed with “loss of instructional time”, as if MCPS is anything more that a glorified babysitting institute)

I don't understand- why would there be a delay? Are you seriously suggesting schools can't open if it is below 32F? That's insane.

Maybe you're the one that needs to go back to school if you think I said anything about schools closing because it's below 32F.

Kids go to school when it's below freezing all the time but there usually isn't black ice is there?

If it's below freezing, there's likely to be some ice. Did you even venture out of your house today? Conditions were fine.

Why is it that everyone in this thread thinks they can speak for the entire county? Conditions were fine where you were. :roll:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If they change it at 5 am, I will literally scream. This kid needs to go back to school. Only here does 3 inches of snow shut schools for a week

Today wasn’t canceled because of snow. It was canceled because of ice. Icy conditions will close schools almost anywhere.

No, the conditions this morning would not have closed schools "almost anywhere." It's not like there was freezing rain overnight. If schools always closed for this, then schools in the upper midwest would never open in the winter.

I grew up in the upper Midwest. We cancelled for ice. The difference is that our school district was just our small town, with a population of 12,000. We didn’t have to close when it was icy somewhere else in our county, including rural areas. Here, school districts go by county, so maybe the roads were clear everywhere you’ve been in the last 48 hours, but multiple people here have posted that their neighborhood elsewhere in MoCo was a sheet of ice today.

Yes, schools would close for "new" ice, like if there was freezing rain overnight. They wouldn't close for ice formed from the snow that fell 24 hours before. The roads would treated. Not everywhere, and not perfectly, but enough to get to school if you didn't drive like a maniac.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If they change it at 5 am, I will literally scream. This kid needs to go back to school. Only here does 3 inches of snow shut schools for a week

Today wasn’t canceled because of snow. It was canceled because of ice. Icy conditions will close schools almost anywhere.

No, the conditions this morning would not have closed schools "almost anywhere." It's not like there was freezing rain overnight. If schools always closed for this, then schools in the upper midwest would never open in the winter.

I grew up in the upper Midwest. We cancelled for ice. The difference is that our school district was just our small town, with a population of 12,000. We didn’t have to close when it was icy somewhere else in our county, including rural areas. Here, school districts go by county, so maybe the roads were clear everywhere you’ve been in the last 48 hours, but multiple people here have posted that their neighborhood elsewhere in MoCo was a sheet of ice today.

Midwest is also more consistently cold so you don't get the thaw and refreeze that leads to the slipperiest, most hard-to-remove ice. (Also grew up in the midwest).

It's very, very common for surfaces, particularly roads, to warm up enough during the day to melt snow, even if the air temperature doesn't go above freezing.

Yes, this area can get some particularly challenging conditions with freezing rain, but this week didn't have those.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They could still change to a delay. It’s going to be in the low teens when HS kids are walking their 2 miles to school. Everything will refreeze. Only bus routes in our area were treated properly. Every other road is a mess

+1, can we just do a delay please? Counts as a full day and kids are in class and learning (for all you people obsessed with “loss of instructional time”, as if MCPS is anything more that a glorified babysitting institute)

I don't understand- why would there be a delay? Are you seriously suggesting schools can't open if it is below 32F? That's insane.

Maybe you're the one that needs to go back to school if you think I said anything about schools closing because it's below 32F.

Kids go to school when it's below freezing all the time but there usually isn't black ice is there?

If it's below freezing, there's likely to be some ice. Did you even venture out of your house today? Conditions were fine.

Why is it that everyone in this thread thinks they can speak for the entire county? Conditions were fine where you were. :roll:

If you expect every side street to be perfectly safe in order to be able to open schools, then we'd never be able to open schools. That's not the standard anywhere else. Main roads were fine. Side streets would have been *at least* passable at slow speeds. You don't need to drive the speed limit at all times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They could still change to a delay. It’s going to be in the low teens when HS kids are walking their 2 miles to school. Everything will refreeze. Only bus routes in our area were treated properly. Every other road is a mess

+1, can we just do a delay please? Counts as a full day and kids are in class and learning (for all you people obsessed with “loss of instructional time”, as if MCPS is anything more that a glorified babysitting institute)

I don't understand- why would there be a delay? Are you seriously suggesting schools can't open if it is below 32F? That's insane.

Maybe you're the one that needs to go back to school if you think I said anything about schools closing because it's below 32F.

Kids go to school when it's below freezing all the time but there usually isn't black ice is there?

If it's below freezing, there's likely to be some ice. Did you even venture out of your house today? Conditions were fine.

Why is it that everyone in this thread thinks they can speak for the entire county? Conditions were fine where you were. :roll:

MCDOT said it was done and that streets were fine. That was a countywide assessment by the agency responsible for the roads.

Brian Hull needs to explain why they didn’t start clearing snow at some schools until Wednesday morning and Chris Cram needs to explain why MCPS lied about road conditions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They could still change to a delay. It’s going to be in the low teens when HS kids are walking their 2 miles to school. Everything will refreeze. Only bus routes in our area were treated properly. Every other road is a mess

+1, can we just do a delay please? Counts as a full day and kids are in class and learning (for all you people obsessed with “loss of instructional time”, as if MCPS is anything more that a glorified babysitting institute)

I don't understand- why would there be a delay? Are you seriously suggesting schools can't open if it is below 32F? That's insane.

Maybe you're the one that needs to go back to school if you think I said anything about schools closing because it's below 32F.

Kids go to school when it's below freezing all the time but there usually isn't black ice is there?

If it's below freezing, there's likely to be some ice. Did you even venture out of your house today? Conditions were fine.

Why is it that everyone in this thread thinks they can speak for the entire county? Conditions were fine where you were. :roll:

MCDOT said it was done and that streets were fine. That was a countywide assessment by the agency responsible for the roads.

Brian Hull needs to explain why they didn’t start clearing snow at some schools until Wednesday morning and Chris Cram needs to explain why MCPS lied about road conditions.

Some HOAs have to maintain their own roads. I mostly think people in this thread can't actually tell what their local roads conditions are like by looking through their windows. But in the limited number of cases where the roads were actually bad, they were probably HOA roads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:50% chance for 3-6 inches on Friday

Can't wait!

[Anonymous]

My municipally maintained road is still a sheet of ice. Fun skating!

[Anonymous]

Come on people. Up and out.
Enjoy the day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My municipally maintained road is still a sheet of ice. Fun skating!

So you never bothered to actually get a closer look.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:50% chance for 3-6 inches on Friday

Can't wait!

Stop trolling. Weather says maybe 1 or 2 inches.

[Anonymous]

If the roads are so clear, explain to me why my neighborhood’s recycling and trash hasn’t been picked up all week?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They could still change to a delay. It’s going to be in the low teens when HS kids are walking their 2 miles to school. Everything will refreeze. Only bus routes in our area were treated properly. Every other road is a mess

+1, can we just do a delay please? Counts as a full day and kids are in class and learning (for all you people obsessed with “loss of instructional time”, as if MCPS is anything more that a glorified babysitting institute)

I don't understand- why would there be a delay? Are you seriously suggesting schools can't open if it is below 32F? That's insane.

Maybe you're the one that needs to go back to school if you think I said anything about schools closing because it's below 32F.

Kids go to school when it's below freezing all the time but there usually isn't black ice is there?

If it's below freezing, there's likely to be some ice. Did you even venture out of your house today? Conditions were fine.

Why is it that everyone in this thread thinks they can speak for the entire county? Conditions were fine where you were. :roll:

The county is free to adopt a system that better fits it. That uses zones or something to better serve the cimmunity.