Any chance the 2 hour delay will change by 5am?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't visit the private school board typically but there's a funny thread there about how "private schools should make their own decisions about closures" inspired by their privates' decision to open being pegged to MCPS.

Parents had enough last week, and some privates decided to make their own decision and open Monday.

No wonder we have 50% of voters in the country voting the way they do when parents have enough of their kids being at home for just one week. Every parent wants their kids to have an education. It was an unprecedented storm. Calm down.

I don't think you know what "unprecedented" means. It was a moderate winter storm. Elsewhere in the country it would have closed schools for a day or two, certainly not a week.

No one who has lived here in the past 20 years has seen such a storm. Maybe you are new. No one was ready clearly from what we see of the post storm cleanup efforts.

Your memory is quite poor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't visit the private school board typically but there's a funny thread there about how "private schools should make their own decisions about closures" inspired by their privates' decision to open being pegged to MCPS.

Parents had enough last week, and some privates decided to make their own decision and open Monday.

No wonder we have 50% of voters in the country voting the way they do when parents have enough of their kids being at home for just one week. Every parent wants their kids to have an education. It was an unprecedented storm. Calm down.

I don't think you know what "unprecedented" means. It was a moderate winter storm. Elsewhere in the country it would have closed schools for a day or two, certainly not a week.

No one who has lived here in the past 20 years has seen such a storm. Maybe you are new. No one was ready clearly from what we see of the post storm cleanup efforts.

Your memory is quite poor.

Yours is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't visit the private school board typically but there's a funny thread there about how "private schools should make their own decisions about closures" inspired by their privates' decision to open being pegged to MCPS.

Parents had enough last week, and some privates decided to make their own decision and open Monday.

No wonder we have 50% of voters in the country voting the way they do when parents have enough of their kids being at home for just one week. Every parent wants their kids to have an education. It was an unprecedented storm. Calm down.

I don't think you know what "unprecedented" means. It was a moderate winter storm. Elsewhere in the country it would have closed schools for a day or two, certainly not a week.

No one who has lived here in the past 20 years has seen such a storm. Maybe you are new. No one was ready clearly from what we see of the post storm cleanup efforts.

Your memory is quite poor.

Yours is.

You really don't remember getting 8+ inches of snow ever over the last 20 years?

[Anonymous]

I don’t think it is the 8 inches of snow, it is the 4 inches or ice via sleet that created a concrete like frosting to the snow and takes heavy machinery to clear the combination. We used to have subcontractors to the local governments who would attach plows to the front of their trucks (had a coworker’s husband that would do this) and they plowed the neighborhood streets, their trucks don’t have the horsepower to clear the kind of precipitation with this storm. I lived in the area for decades, this is new.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it is the 8 inches of snow, it is the 4 inches or ice via sleet that created a concrete like frosting to the snow and takes heavy machinery to clear the combination. We used to have subcontractors to the local governments who would attach plows to the front of their trucks (had a coworker’s husband that would do this) and they plowed the neighborhood streets, their trucks don’t have the horsepower to clear the kind of precipitation with this storm. I lived in the area for decades, this is new.

It's the mass and volume. And yes, we've had plenty of storms with similar masses and volumes of snow.

Feb. 11–12, 2006 — 15”
Dec. 18–19, 2009 — 26”
Feb. 5–6, 2010 — 30”
Feb. 9–10, 2010 — 18”
Feb. 12–13, 2014 — 21”
Jan. 22–24, 2016 — 36”
Jan. 3, 2022 — 9”
Jan. 7, 2022 — 5”
Jan. 16, 2024 — 5”
Jan. 5–6, 2025 — 11”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't visit the private school board typically but there's a funny thread there about how "private schools should make their own decisions about closures" inspired by their privates' decision to open being pegged to MCPS.

Parents had enough last week, and some privates decided to make their own decision and open Monday.

No wonder we have 50% of voters in the country voting the way they do when parents have enough of their kids being at home for just one week. Every parent wants their kids to have an education. It was an unprecedented storm. Calm down.

I don't think you know what "unprecedented" means. It was a moderate winter storm. Elsewhere in the country it would have closed schools for a day or two, certainly not a week.

No one who has lived here in the past 20 years has seen such a storm. Maybe you are new. No one was ready clearly from what we see of the post storm cleanup efforts.

Your memory is quite poor.

Yours is.

You really don't remember getting 8+ inches of snow ever over the last 20 years?

Are you that estupide? Did we get this much freezing rain with very low temps and no melting after a week. Go to bed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it is the 8 inches of snow, it is the 4 inches or ice via sleet that created a concrete like frosting to the snow and takes heavy machinery to clear the combination. We used to have subcontractors to the local governments who would attach plows to the front of their trucks (had a coworker’s husband that would do this) and they plowed the neighborhood streets, their trucks don’t have the horsepower to clear the kind of precipitation with this storm. I lived in the area for decades, this is new.

It's the mass and volume. And yes, we've had plenty of storms with similar masses and volumes of snow.

Feb. 11–12, 2006 — 15”
Dec. 18–19, 2009 — 26”
Feb. 5–6, 2010 — 30”
Feb. 9–10, 2010 — 18”
Feb. 12–13, 2014 — 21”
Jan. 22–24, 2016 — 36”
Jan. 3, 2022 — 9”
Jan. 7, 2022 — 5”
Jan. 16, 2024 — 5”
Jan. 5–6, 2025 — 11”

This was not just snow. This was new stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it is the 8 inches of snow, it is the 4 inches or ice via sleet that created a concrete like frosting to the snow and takes heavy machinery to clear the combination. We used to have subcontractors to the local governments who would attach plows to the front of their trucks (had a coworker’s husband that would do this) and they plowed the neighborhood streets, their trucks don’t have the horsepower to clear the kind of precipitation with this storm. I lived in the area for decades, this is new.

I've lived in this area almost 40 years and can't recall a storm quite like this one in terms of difficulty moving the snow. The Blizzard of '96, Snowmageddon 2010, and Snowzilla 2016 were much more overwhelming in terms of amount of snow, but they didn't require specialized tools for the average person to clear, just a LOT of shoveling and plowing. And you didn't need metal gardening tools and pickaxes, just a regular plastic snow shovel. Anybody could clear the snow in those huge storms if you tossed snow aside for enough hours. With this storm, if you didn't hit the perfect interval before Monday night, it became physically impossible to move without different tools. The volume wasn't anywhere near the worst we've had, but the type of precipitation was unique.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it is the 8 inches of snow, it is the 4 inches or ice via sleet that created a concrete like frosting to the snow and takes heavy machinery to clear the combination. We used to have subcontractors to the local governments who would attach plows to the front of their trucks (had a coworker’s husband that would do this) and they plowed the neighborhood streets, their trucks don’t have the horsepower to clear the kind of precipitation with this storm. I lived in the area for decades, this is new.

It's the mass and volume. And yes, we've had plenty of storms with similar masses and volumes of snow.

Feb. 11–12, 2006 — 15”
Dec. 18–19, 2009 — 26”
Feb. 5–6, 2010 — 30”
Feb. 9–10, 2010 — 18”
Feb. 12–13, 2014 — 21”
Jan. 22–24, 2016 — 36”
Jan. 3, 2022 — 9”
Jan. 7, 2022 — 5”
Jan. 16, 2024 — 5”
Jan. 5–6, 2025 — 11”

This was not just snow. This was new stuff.

Nope. I assure you they're all water.

You're older now and probably out of shape when it comes to shoveling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it is the 8 inches of snow, it is the 4 inches or ice via sleet that created a concrete like frosting to the snow and takes heavy machinery to clear the combination. We used to have subcontractors to the local governments who would attach plows to the front of their trucks (had a coworker’s husband that would do this) and they plowed the neighborhood streets, their trucks don’t have the horsepower to clear the kind of precipitation with this storm. I lived in the area for decades, this is new.

I've lived in this area almost 40 years and can't recall a storm quite like this one in terms of difficulty moving the snow. The Blizzard of '96, Snowmageddon 2010, and Snowzilla 2016 were much more overwhelming in terms of amount of snow, but they didn't require specialized tools for the average person to clear, just a LOT of shoveling and plowing. And you didn't need metal gardening tools and pickaxes, just a regular plastic snow shovel. Anybody could clear the snow in those huge storms if you tossed snow aside for enough hours. With this storm, if you didn't hit the perfect interval before Monday night, it became physically impossible to move without different tools. The volume wasn't anywhere near the worst we've had, but the type of precipitation was unique.

The other storms had similar problems if you didn't clear the snow right away. Even then, I remember shoveling the sidewalks myself at Rollins Park apartments in 2010 because I was frustrated that USPS refused to deliver the mail for over a week. I used a garden shovel because snow packed down with foot traffic is far worse to clear that the snow we got last week.

Last week's snow really wasn't that bad. Yes, it was more effort than usual, but as long as you took care of it on Monday or Tuesday- well after the snow stopped falling- and before you walked all over it, it was fine to clear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't visit the private school board typically but there's a funny thread there about how "private schools should make their own decisions about closures" inspired by their privates' decision to open being pegged to MCPS.

Parents had enough last week, and some privates decided to make their own decision and open Monday.

No wonder we have 50% of voters in the country voting the way they do when parents have enough of their kids being at home for just one week. Every parent wants their kids to have an education. It was an unprecedented storm. Calm down.

I don't think you know what "unprecedented" means. It was a moderate winter storm. Elsewhere in the country it would have closed schools for a day or two, certainly not a week.

No one who has lived here in the past 20 years has seen such a storm. Maybe you are new. No one was ready clearly from what we see of the post storm cleanup efforts.

Your memory is quite poor.

Yours is.

You really don't remember getting 8+ inches of snow ever over the last 20 years?

Are you that estupide? Did we get this much freezing rain with very low temps and no melting after a week. Go to bed.

You're supposed to shovel within 24 hours of snow stopping. If you did that, you were fine. Even if you didn't, you were still fine- it just might take you 2-3 times as long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't visit the private school board typically but there's a funny thread there about how "private schools should make their own decisions about closures" inspired by their privates' decision to open being pegged to MCPS.

Parents had enough last week, and some privates decided to make their own decision and open Monday.

No wonder we have 50% of voters in the country voting the way they do when parents have enough of their kids being at home for just one week. Every parent wants their kids to have an education. It was an unprecedented storm. Calm down.

I don't think you know what "unprecedented" means. It was a moderate winter storm. Elsewhere in the country it would have closed schools for a day or two, certainly not a week.

No one who has lived here in the past 20 years has seen such a storm. Maybe you are new. No one was ready clearly from what we see of the post storm cleanup efforts.

This is the common refrain after every storm, the county treats every snow storm like it's the first they've ever encountered. It's baffling. Is every storm exactly the same? Of course not. But a week is plenty of time to adapt and figure it out how to remove the snow and ice. It's not even like we had to deal with widespread power outages like happened in other areas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it is the 8 inches of snow, it is the 4 inches or ice via sleet that created a concrete like frosting to the snow and takes heavy machinery to clear the combination. We used to have subcontractors to the local governments who would attach plows to the front of their trucks (had a coworker’s husband that would do this) and they plowed the neighborhood streets, their trucks don’t have the horsepower to clear the kind of precipitation with this storm. I lived in the area for decades, this is new.

I've lived in this area almost 40 years and can't recall a storm quite like this one in terms of difficulty moving the snow. The Blizzard of '96, Snowmageddon 2010, and Snowzilla 2016 were much more overwhelming in terms of amount of snow, but they didn't require specialized tools for the average person to clear, just a LOT of shoveling and plowing. And you didn't need metal gardening tools and pickaxes, just a regular plastic snow shovel. Anybody could clear the snow in those huge storms if you tossed snow aside for enough hours. With this storm, if you didn't hit the perfect interval before Monday night, it became physically impossible to move without different tools. The volume wasn't anywhere near the worst we've had, but the type of precipitation was unique.

The other storms had similar problems if you didn't clear the snow right away. Even then, I remember shoveling the sidewalks myself at Rollins Park apartments in 2010 because I was frustrated that USPS refused to deliver the mail for over a week. I used a garden shovel because snow packed down with foot traffic is far worse to clear that the snow we got last week.

Last week's snow really wasn't that bad. Yes, it was more effort than usual, but as long as you took care of it on Monday or Tuesday- well after the snow stopped falling- and before you walked all over it, it was fine to clear.

+1. I think the problem is here that people have no sense of urgency and wait too long. We always keep up with it as the storms progress because DH has to get to work sooner than the rest of us. Yeah it sucks when the plow then comes along and pushes more snow into where we just shoveled but it's 100% worse to not bother starting until after that like many of our neighbors seem to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't visit the private school board typically but there's a funny thread there about how "private schools should make their own decisions about closures" inspired by their privates' decision to open being pegged to MCPS.

Parents had enough last week, and some privates decided to make their own decision and open Monday.

No wonder we have 50% of voters in the country voting the way they do when parents have enough of their kids being at home for just one week. Every parent wants their kids to have an education. It was an unprecedented storm. Calm down.

I don't think you know what "unprecedented" means. It was a moderate winter storm. Elsewhere in the country it would have closed schools for a day or two, certainly not a week.

No one who has lived here in the past 20 years has seen such a storm. Maybe you are new. No one was ready clearly from what we see of the post storm cleanup efforts.

I’ve lived here 45 years. I’ve seen storms like this. In 1994/95 we had multiple ice storms. Once was all sleet—something like 7 inches of it. It was like this and we closed for a week. In the same season, we had another ice storm that was all ice, and we also closed a week. It was a bad year. We’ve had many blizzards and mix storms. The big thing I’ve never seen with this was wasn’t about the storm, but the response. The crews all didn’t work during this storm and all stopped working right after. They didn’t make any effort to further clear roads after a day.

[Anonymous]

I have lived in DMV since 1990 and what made this storm unusual was the long period of sleet after the snow and then the long period of very cold temperatures that followed. We did clear our side walks but DH first broke a shovel and used an axe. That has never been required before.