Snow Day Monday, January 6?

[Anonymous]

The bigger issue is people not shoveling their sidewalks. My kids walk to school and one neighbor and myself are the only people with clear sidewalks. The roads being clear mean nothing. My kids don’t walk in the road.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone pointed out earlier, the reason MCPS closes more often is because the county is so huge and staff tend to work much farther than they live, so commuting isn’t tenable. That being said, Bowser needs to consider many, many dcps staff don’t live in DC…. Therefore, she should be considering their safety rather just assuming everyone can public transport in.

I'm a teacher. I live in Glover Park DC, and teach in Columbia Heights. There's no Metro in my neighborhood, the bus will not be running, my hilly street will not be plowed, and Uber will be on massive surge pricing. We better damn well be closed. Ugh.

If buses are running, you're okay though, right?

So probably if the roads are clear enough to be on a normal bus schedule, they'll just do a 2-hour delay.

The buses on major arteries like Wisconsin and Connecticut will be running. The buses that serve residential back streets will either be not running, or on massive detours. The kind of where is the bus I've been standing here for 45 minutes I am a block of ice the arrival time keeps falling off my app and I feel like a stupid chump for even trying to take the bus this morning detours. And then when it comes it spins out and you're even more late.

That Glover Park Metrobus route really gets thrown for a loop when it snows. When I lived there, I feel like it would remain offline well after the roads were clear.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone pointed out earlier, the reason MCPS closes more often is because the county is so huge and staff tend to work much farther than they live, so commuting isn’t tenable. That being said, Bowser needs to consider many, many dcps staff don’t live in DC…. Therefore, she should be considering their safety rather just assuming everyone can public transport in.

It is possible for people to drive in the snow. I visited another state once in the winter and people were doing it like it was no big deal. They weren't even, like, mountain men. It was just regular people.

Thanks, genius. Just because your area is plowed and safe, doesn’t mean everyone’s is. Clearly all you seem concerned with is yourself and your conditions (and attempting snark on the internet vs basic common sense)

PP here. Nothing is plowed in my neighborhood. The roads aren't slick either. If the roads aren't dangerous, then kids belong in school.

Everything will refreeze overnight. Foresight isn't in your wheelhouse, huh?

It's winter. It's snows. Things freeze. It's what happens and it doesn't have to be traumatizing if you don't want it to be. You can just turn off the game shows, put on your big boy pants and walk outside and see for yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone pointed out earlier, the reason MCPS closes more often is because the county is so huge and staff tend to work much farther than they live, so commuting isn’t tenable. That being said, Bowser needs to consider many, many dcps staff don’t live in DC…. Therefore, she should be considering their safety rather just assuming everyone can public transport in.

It is possible for people to drive in the snow. I visited another state once in the winter and people were doing it like it was no big deal. They weren't even, like, mountain men. It was just regular people.

Thanks, genius. Just because your area is plowed and safe, doesn’t mean everyone’s is. Clearly all you seem concerned with is yourself and your conditions (and attempting snark on the internet vs basic common sense)

PP here. Nothing is plowed in my neighborhood. The roads aren't slick either. If the roads aren't dangerous, then kids belong in school.

Everything will refreeze overnight. Foresight isn't in your wheelhouse, huh?

It's winter. It's snows. Things freeze. It's what happens and it doesn't have to be traumatizing if you don't want it to be. You can just turn off the game shows, put on your big boy pants and walk outside and see for yourself.

This was a response to the poster saying the roads aren't slick. They WILL be slick at 7 a.m. tomorrow morning as they will have refrozen. And therefore they will be dangerous. Not sure what game shows and big boy pants have to do with it.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone pointed out earlier, the reason MCPS closes more often is because the county is so huge and staff tend to work much farther than they live, so commuting isn’t tenable. That being said, Bowser needs to consider many, many dcps staff don’t live in DC…. Therefore, she should be considering their safety rather just assuming everyone can public transport in.

It is possible for people to drive in the snow. I visited another state once in the winter and people were doing it like it was no big deal. They weren't even, like, mountain men. It was just regular people.

Thanks, genius. Just because your area is plowed and safe, doesn’t mean everyone’s is. Clearly all you seem concerned with is yourself and your conditions (and attempting snark on the internet vs basic common sense)

PP here. Nothing is plowed in my neighborhood. The roads aren't slick either. If the roads aren't dangerous, then kids belong in school.

Everything will refreeze overnight. Foresight isn't in your wheelhouse, huh?

It's winter. It's snows. Things freeze. It's what happens and it doesn't have to be traumatizing if you don't want it to be. You can just turn off the game shows, put on your big boy pants and walk outside and see for yourself.

This was a response to the poster saying the roads aren't slick. They WILL be slick at 7 a.m. tomorrow morning as they will have refrozen. And therefore they will be dangerous. Not sure what game shows and big boy pants have to do with it.

Depends entirely on how much gets plowed today and also factors like how warm/wet it gets today (refrozen slush is way worse than snow pack that never melted). I don't get the PP's "big boy pants" comment but it's not a given that roads will be slick tomorrow at 7am. The city has actually really stayed on top of the plowing and the snow is actually really cooperating with the break this afternoon and then it looks like even this late band will be done by late evening with time to run the plows again while it's still cold and before things can get slushy.

I think a 2 hour delay tomorrow is inevitable but don't think a closure is a forgone conclusion. Commutes might be fine tomorrow. This is not actually that much snow and the city was well prepared.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone pointed out earlier, the reason MCPS closes more often is because the county is so huge and staff tend to work much farther than they live, so commuting isn’t tenable. That being said, Bowser needs to consider many, many dcps staff don’t live in DC…. Therefore, she should be considering their safety rather just assuming everyone can public transport in.

It is possible for people to drive in the snow. I visited another state once in the winter and people were doing it like it was no big deal. They weren't even, like, mountain men. It was just regular people.

Thanks, genius. Just because your area is plowed and safe, doesn’t mean everyone’s is. Clearly all you seem concerned with is yourself and your conditions (and attempting snark on the internet vs basic common sense)

PP here. Nothing is plowed in my neighborhood. The roads aren't slick either. If the roads aren't dangerous, then kids belong in school.

Everything will refreeze overnight. Foresight isn't in your wheelhouse, huh?

It's winter. It's snows. Things freeze. It's what happens and it doesn't have to be traumatizing if you don't want it to be. You can just turn off the game shows, put on your big boy pants and walk outside and see for yourself.

You sound just some angry loser who had to work today and youre pissed others got it off. So brave and tough of you to walk outside though!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As someone pointed out earlier, the reason MCPS closes more often is because the county is so huge and staff tend to work much farther than they live, so commuting isn’t tenable. That being said, Bowser needs to consider many, many dcps staff don’t live in DC…. Therefore, she should be considering their safety rather just assuming everyone can public transport in.

It is possible for people to drive in the snow. I visited another state once in the winter and people were doing it like it was no big deal. They weren't even, like, mountain men. It was just regular people.

Thanks, genius. Just because your area is plowed and safe, doesn’t mean everyone’s is. Clearly all you seem concerned with is yourself and your conditions (and attempting snark on the internet vs basic common sense)

PP here. Nothing is plowed in my neighborhood. The roads aren't slick either. If the roads aren't dangerous, then kids belong in school.

Everything will refreeze overnight. Foresight isn't in your wheelhouse, huh?

It's winter. It's snows. Things freeze. It's what happens and it doesn't have to be traumatizing if you don't want it to be. You can just turn off the game shows, put on your big boy pants and walk outside and see for yourself.

This was a response to the poster saying the roads aren't slick. They WILL be slick at 7 a.m. tomorrow morning as they will have refrozen. And therefore they will be dangerous. Not sure what game shows and big boy pants have to do with it.

It was well below freezing this morning, as it will be every morning for the next two months. It's fine. Life goes on and everyone will be fine.

[Anonymous]

MCPS is closed so if DCPS opens I won’t be going to work. It sucks but that’s part of the consequences of living and working in different jurisdictions, and also of not following what other jurisdictions do. It’s just how it is.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone pointed out earlier, the reason MCPS closes more often is because the county is so huge and staff tend to work much farther than they live, so commuting isn’t tenable. That being said, Bowser needs to consider many, many dcps staff don’t live in DC…. Therefore, she should be considering their safety rather just assuming everyone can public transport in.

It is possible for people to drive in the snow. I visited another state once in the winter and people were doing it like it was no big deal. They weren't even, like, mountain men. It was just regular people.

Thanks, genius. Just because your area is plowed and safe, doesn’t mean everyone’s is. Clearly all you seem concerned with is yourself and your conditions (and attempting snark on the internet vs basic common sense)

PP here. Nothing is plowed in my neighborhood. The roads aren't slick either. If the roads aren't dangerous, then kids belong in school.

Everything will refreeze overnight. Foresight isn't in your wheelhouse, huh?

It's winter. It's snows. Things freeze. It's what happens and it doesn't have to be traumatizing if you don't want it to be. You can just turn off the game shows, put on your big boy pants and walk outside and see for yourself.

This was a response to the poster saying the roads aren't slick. They WILL be slick at 7 a.m. tomorrow morning as they will have refrozen. And therefore they will be dangerous. Not sure what game shows and big boy pants have to do with it.

Depends entirely on how much gets plowed today and also factors like how warm/wet it gets today (refrozen slush is way worse than snow pack that never melted). I don't get the PP's "big boy pants" comment but it's not a given that roads will be slick tomorrow at 7am. The city has actually really stayed on top of the plowing and the snow is actually really cooperating with the break this afternoon and then it looks like even this late band will be done by late evening with time to run the plows again while it's still cold and before things can get slushy.

I think a 2 hour delay tomorrow is inevitable but don't think a closure is a forgone conclusion. Commutes might be fine tomorrow. This is not actually that much snow and the city was well prepared.

Some DCPS buildings don't have heat. Take that into consideration too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As someone pointed out earlier, the reason MCPS closes more often is because the county is so huge and staff tend to work much farther than they live, so commuting isn’t tenable. That being said, Bowser needs to consider many, many dcps staff don’t live in DC…. Therefore, she should be considering their safety rather just assuming everyone can public transport in.

I'm a teacher. I live in Glover Park DC, and teach in Columbia Heights. There's no Metro in my neighborhood, the bus will not be running, my hilly street will not be plowed, and Uber will be on massive surge pricing. We better damn well be closed. Ugh.

If buses are running, you're okay though, right?

So probably if the roads are clear enough to be on a normal bus schedule, they'll just do a 2-hour delay.

The buses on major arteries like Wisconsin and Connecticut will be running. The buses that serve residential back streets will either be not running, or on massive detours. The kind of where is the bus I've been standing here for 45 minutes I am a block of ice the arrival time keeps falling off my app and I feel like a stupid chump for even trying to take the bus this morning detours. And then when it comes it spins out and you're even more late.

It's like an hour walk from Glover Park to CH. As long as you have a pair of snow boots, you're fine.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone pointed out earlier, the reason MCPS closes more often is because the county is so huge and staff tend to work much farther than they live, so commuting isn’t tenable. That being said, Bowser needs to consider many, many dcps staff don’t live in DC…. Therefore, she should be considering their safety rather just assuming everyone can public transport in.

In my department, 2/5 live in DC. Can your school run with 40% of staff?

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Anonymous wrote:As someone pointed out earlier, the reason MCPS closes more often is because the county is so huge and staff tend to work much farther than they live, so commuting isn’t tenable. That being said, Bowser needs to consider many, many dcps staff don’t live in DC…. Therefore, she should be considering their safety rather just assuming everyone can public transport in.

I'm a teacher. I live in Glover Park DC, and teach in Columbia Heights. There's no Metro in my neighborhood, the bus will not be running, my hilly street will not be plowed, and Uber will be on massive surge pricing. We better damn well be closed. Ugh.

If buses are running, you're okay though, right?

So probably if the roads are clear enough to be on a normal bus schedule, they'll just do a 2-hour delay.

The buses on major arteries like Wisconsin and Connecticut will be running. The buses that serve residential back streets will either be not running, or on massive detours. The kind of where is the bus I've been standing here for 45 minutes I am a block of ice the arrival time keeps falling off my app and I feel like a stupid chump for even trying to take the bus this morning detours. And then when it comes it spins out and you're even more late.

It's like an hour walk from Glover Park to CH. As long as you have a pair of snow boots, you're fine.

You're out of your mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS is closed so if DCPS opens I won’t be going to work. It sucks but that’s part of the consequences of living and working in different jurisdictions, and also of not following what other jurisdictions do. It’s just how it is.

MCPS already called it? I don’t know where yall live but roads aren’t plowed where I am. I think kids are off again tomorrow. (Also, teacher, get off DCUM and enjoy your damn snow day! Pull up a hallmark movie! Why be here of all places?)

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Anonymous wrote:As someone pointed out earlier, the reason MCPS closes more often is because the county is so huge and staff tend to work much farther than they live, so commuting isn’t tenable. That being said, Bowser needs to consider many, many dcps staff don’t live in DC…. Therefore, she should be considering their safety rather just assuming everyone can public transport in.

It is possible for people to drive in the snow. I visited another state once in the winter and people were doing it like it was no big deal. They weren't even, like, mountain men. It was just regular people.

Thanks, genius. Just because your area is plowed and safe, doesn’t mean everyone’s is. Clearly all you seem concerned with is yourself and your conditions (and attempting snark on the internet vs basic common sense)

PP here. Nothing is plowed in my neighborhood. The roads aren't slick either. If the roads aren't dangerous, then kids belong in school.

Everything will refreeze overnight. Foresight isn't in your wheelhouse, huh?

It's winter. It's snows. Things freeze. It's what happens and it doesn't have to be traumatizing if you don't want it to be. You can just turn off the game shows, put on your big boy pants and walk outside and see for yourself.

This was a response to the poster saying the roads aren't slick. They WILL be slick at 7 a.m. tomorrow morning as they will have refrozen. And therefore they will be dangerous. Not sure what game shows and big boy pants have to do with it.

Depends entirely on how much gets plowed today and also factors like how warm/wet it gets today (refrozen slush is way worse than snow pack that never melted). I don't get the PP's "big boy pants" comment but it's not a given that roads will be slick tomorrow at 7am. The city has actually really stayed on top of the plowing and the snow is actually really cooperating with the break this afternoon and then it looks like even this late band will be done by late evening with time to run the plows again while it's still cold and before things can get slushy.

I think a 2 hour delay tomorrow is inevitable but don't think a closure is a forgone conclusion. Commutes might be fine tomorrow. This is not actually that much snow and the city was well prepared.

Some DCPS buildings don't have heat. Take that into consideration too.

That sounds like it is a problem regardless of the snow. It's January. If my kid's school didn't have heat I'd be keeping them home anyway.

Though I'm curious what schools don't currently have heat. Name and shame! That's unacceptable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS is closed so if DCPS opens I won’t be going to work. It sucks but that’s part of the consequences of living and working in different jurisdictions, and also of not following what other jurisdictions do. It’s just how it is.

What do you mean consequences? Is your thought that to teach in DC teachers must establish residence? It's an interesting policy idea...but they'd need to pay for it.

Obviously one jurisdiction can't just blindly follow their neighbor or you'd have snow days across the country in perpetuity so that's just an odd statement imho.