Will Schools Be Opened tomorrow Tuesday March 4th?

[Anonymous]

We are in MCPS. What ice? There is none. My development and the side and main roads are treated and fine. This is 5" of snow people. There was no ice storm, there was no blizzard. It ended here at 12:30pm which gives them all day/night to get things ready. It should NOT take a county, 2 days to clear out 7 hours of snow that is less than 6". No excuse.

[Anonymous]

Public bus service limited. I'm thinking closed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it is so lame they don't have a protocol about getting the lots, busses and sidewalks of the schools done. It stopped over 3hrs ago and they still have another 13hrs to make a decision. I would go and shovel my kids school. It is 6" of snow. 15+ hours is plenty enough time to get the schools ready. If the northeast and Midwest can do it, so can we.

Can we, as a people on DCUM, please put an end to using this bullshit reason for clearing the roads in the DC area?

I guess as soon as someone can explain why. DC has snow every year. Sometimes feet of it and sometimes only inches but they do have snow. To not have a plan is ridiculous. For each county to not have a plan to keep schools clean and ready once the snow stops is beyond me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are in MCPS. What ice? There is none. My development and the side and main roads are treated and fine. This is 5" of snow people. There was no ice storm, there was no blizzard. It ended here at 12:30pm which gives them all day/night to get things ready. It should NOT take a county, 2 days to clear out 7 hours of snow that is less than 6". No excuse.

This. But we are fairly close to the District line. There is no reason why our local elementary shouldn't open

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are in MCPS. What ice? There is none. My development and the side and main roads are treated and fine. This is 5" of snow people. There was no ice storm, there was no blizzard. It ended here at 12:30pm which gives them all day/night to get things ready. It should NOT take a county, 2 days to clear out 7 hours of snow that is less than 6". No excuse.

This. But we are fairly close to the District line. There is no reason why our local elementary shouldn't open

We are in Gaithersburg and I agree. No where in MC did it snow more than 6 inches.

[Anonymous]

PG is closed.

Ho Co just called a delay.

So Mo Co with go one way or the other. It will not open on time.

[Anonymous]

In MCPS - Silver Spring - and lots of ice on roads, very little traffic on main road we are close to. I don't see them ready by tomorrow. Too much ice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In MCPS - Silver Spring - and lots of ice on roads, very little traffic on main road we are close to. I don't see them ready by tomorrow. Too much ice.

In Bethesda. Ice covered and not plowed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are in MCPS. What ice? There is none. My development and the side and main roads are treated and fine. This is 5" of snow people. There was no ice storm, there was no blizzard. It ended here at 12:30pm which gives them all day/night to get things ready. It should NOT take a county, 2 days to clear out 7 hours of snow that is less than 6". No excuse.

bully for you, babe!

Where we are in Mo Co, our roads haven't been touched. My mother's roads (and she's about 10 miles south of us) haven't been touched.


Not all of Mo Co is the same, honey bunny! Under our driveway was a layer of ice. And when you don't live in tract housing on postage stamp land, there's more to plow.

[Anonymous]

We are in Bethesda and my DH spent hours shoveling our long driveway. No ice. Plows came through and we are ready to go. And to pp don't be so ugly honey bunny. Some of live close in but on nice big lots. Why did you throw that in there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are in MCPS. What ice? There is none. My development and the side and main roads are treated and fine. This is 5" of snow people. There was no ice storm, there was no blizzard. It ended here at 12:30pm which gives them all day/night to get things ready. It should NOT take a county, 2 days to clear out 7 hours of snow that is less than 6". No excuse.

Montgomery County is large. Have you traversed the entire county to confirm that there is no ice anywhere? Why do you assume that knowing what it's like in the little world of your neighborhood makes you the arbiter of whether or not things are clear everywhere in the county?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are in MCPS. What ice? There is none. My development and the side and main roads are treated and fine. This is 5" of snow people. There was no ice storm, there was no blizzard. It ended here at 12:30pm which gives them all day/night to get things ready. It should NOT take a county, 2 days to clear out 7 hours of snow that is less than 6". No excuse.

bully for you, babe!

Where we are in Mo Co, our roads haven't been touched. My mother's roads (and she's about 10 miles south of us) haven't been touched.


Not all of Mo Co is the same, honey bunny! Under our driveway was a layer of ice. And when you don't live in tract housing on postage stamp land, there's more to plow.

+1!

I think a lot of people on here really fail to realize that what you see when you look out of your window isn't necessarily the case everywhere (even though that should be common sense).

[Anonymous]

We have ice under a little bit of snow. Took me about 45 minutes to clear the ice off my windshield with my defroster on full blast. The snow took me about 2 minutes to remove.

Unless all the roads have been salted, there's going to be ice on the roads. I'm going in tomorrow, but I'm going to be careful. I don't know how safe it will be until mid-morning, so I'm voting for a 2 hour delay in the suburbs.

[Anonymous]

Even if there is no ice now, there will be. It's only supposed to be four degrees overnight. No way are they sending out school buses at 6 am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are in Bethesda and my DH spent hours shoveling our long driveway. No ice. Plows came through and we are ready to go. And to pp don't be so ugly honey bunny. Some of live close in but on nice big lots. Why did you throw that in there?

2 acres

big lot