You blew this weather call St. Albans, Sidwell, Maret, GDS, NCS

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Anonymous wrote:I drove my three kids to two different schools and had no issues. Come on people- there are a few flakes of snow out

Speaking of flakes....

Thanks-- I needed that.

We hit a bad patch coming in & despite slow driving, thought we'd wind up spinning into a major street instead of stopping at the stop sign. All was well, but I believe plenty of people had trouble.

Got nothing to do with your ability on dry clear snowy New England roads.

Cheez - what does that mean? obviously you have never lived farther north than this.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, this issue really gets people going!

My 2 cents: I am a teacher at a DC private and live relatively far out in Montgomery County. I got up early and made it in, but there were some white knuckle moments for sure and I questioned my own judgment a few times along the way in. I will say that, had I notified the school that I would be late because the driving was unsafe from my location at that time (early and with very low temps and a fair amount of untreated roads), they would have been supportive of my decision.

I did see quite a few accidents and traffic jams caused by cars that could not make it up icy hills or had slid across the lines into other cars, as well as a couple of Montgomery County schoolbuses that seemed to have pulled over or been involved in (fortunately) relatively minor accidents.

On balance, this is a day on which I wish they had invoked the 2-hour delay. However, it is not an easy decision; it is a thankless task to make that decision; and even a two-hour delay can be fairly disruptive (for example, if the school runs all classes on a shortened schedule, you can't give a test that was formatted for the longer time period).

Lastly, I get why people are referencing NE or Michigan roots -- it's a way of saying "I'm not just a Southern person scared of cold precipitation falling from the sky."

Anyway, everybody's here, temps have risen, all is well. Hope temps on DCUM cool.

Oooh, I can't wait for the posts like "If you are a teacher, then why are you on DCUM in the middle of the school day?" etc. I, for one, am thrilled to know that private school teachers actually read this forum -- even if it is during the school day. Please, tell us where you teach so we can know who is keeping up with our vitriol. Oh, and if you can, please tell me whether my snowflake is getting accepted this week and when I will hear and whether it will be by mail, email, phone or singing telegram.

They let us out to exercise in the yard after morning lockdown, and I traded my cigarettes from the canteen for some time on a contraband computer so I could post a message on DCUM. Shhhhhhh . . . don't tell the warden.

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Anonymous wrote:We drove from up 270 to Holton. No issues. And gasp, we have never lived in New England. I can't believe we could even navigate thru the "blizzard." Amazing.

Thanks for the input, Señora smug

Its also a lie.

How is it a lie PP? I left at 7:10am and took Exit 6 onto 270. 270 HOV to Westlake Exit, Fernwood, Bradley to Wilson. Dropped daughter off at 7:48am. School starts at 8am. Plenty of cars coming in at the same time dropping off their kids. No one extra directing traffic. We normally leave between 7:20-25pm and it takes us 25min max to get to school. Today it took 38 minutes so yes it was a little longer but we knew that and left with plenty of time and didn't stress since Holton wasn't giving tardies today. Besides the usual slow traffic on 270, everything was fine. The highways were wet, the side roads had 1" max of snow. I drive a minivan and it made it thru fine. But I guess if my report was of "hundreds" of car accidents, it would have been more believable.

Exit 6 = up 270 jajajajajaj

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You mean some of you slipped in the snow? Well I hydroplane in the rain sometimes. Should we close on rainy days too?

Pathetic babies you all are. I dropped off 2 kids to 2 separate schools without issue. The schools weren't on lockdown and they probably roll their eyes at the complaints and people pulling in an hour later. Can't leave at the same time as a sunny day and think you are going to arrive on time.

[Anonymous]

Take a deep breath you angry people and look at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xoPCIUwc4zY

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We drove from up 270 to Holton. No issues. And gasp, we have never lived in New England. I can't believe we could even navigate thru the "blizzard." Amazing.

For people in DC, the dusting we received is too much. I grew up in upstate NY and this was no big deal. DC gets snow every single winter. If you can't drive in it, do us a favor and move.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure why the DC schools could not look out the window at 6 AM and adopt a two hour delay. Tried to drive anxious child to school because of a test today, but have had to pull off the road because of all the wrecks. Man, I thought all the schools got together so they could make better calls. They really blew it this morning. I get that it is still my responsibility as a parent and that people are human – I just needed to vent because it was scary out there on the road and it feels better to be angry than frightened.

Move to Arizona. That was nothing this morning, you loser.

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Anonymous wrote:We drove from up 270 to Holton. No issues. And gasp, we have never lived in New England. I can't believe we could even navigate thru the "blizzard." Amazing.

For people in DC, the dusting we received is too much. I grew up in upstate NY and this was no big deal. DC gets snow every single winter. If you can't drive in it, do us a favor and move.

Fellow upstate NY here -- I dropped my kids off at 7:45 and then went to the grocery store. Roads were slippery but not unmanageable at a safe speed and distance. I didn't even invoke the 4WD.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We drove from up 270 to Holton. No issues. And gasp, we have never lived in New England. I can't believe we could even navigate thru the "blizzard." Amazing.

For people in DC, the dusting we received is too much. I grew up in upstate NY and this was no big deal. DC gets snow every single winter. If you can't drive in it, do us a favor and move.

Fellow upstate NY here -- I dropped my kids off at 7:45 and then went to the grocery store. Roads were slippery but not unmanageable at a safe speed and distance. I didn't even invoke the 4WD.

What do you want, a cookie?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We drove from up 270 to Holton. No issues. And gasp, we have never lived in New England. I can't believe we could even navigate thru the "blizzard." Amazing.

For people in DC, the dusting we received is too much. I grew up in upstate NY and this was no big deal. DC gets snow every single winter. If you can't drive in it, do us a favor and move.

Fellow upstate NY here -- I dropped my kids off at 7:45 and then went to the grocery store. Roads were slippery but not unmanageable at a safe speed and distance. I didn't even invoke the 4WD.

What do you want, a cookie?

Nope. Just concurring that this mornings snowfall was a non-event.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We drove from up 270 to Holton. No issues. And gasp, we have never lived in New England. I can't believe we could even navigate thru the "blizzard." Amazing.

For people in DC, the dusting we received is too much. I grew up in upstate NY and this was no big deal. DC gets snow every single winter. If you can't drive in it, do us a favor and move.

Fellow upstate NY here -- I dropped my kids off at 7:45 and then went to the grocery store. Roads were slippery but not unmanageable at a safe speed and distance. I didn't even invoke the 4WD.

What do you want, a cookie?

Nope. Just concurring that this mornings snowfall was a non-event.

Did you drive on Rt 29 today? NON-event?

If you look past your nose you will find an interesting world out there.

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Anonymous wrote:My son texted that his MCPS high school first period had so many kids absent the teacher is not teaching today. They blew it!!!

That is why I send my kid to private. They would actually teach the kids.

HAHA! I'm a private school teacher at one of the above and this is so laughable. We were missing so many teachers and kids during first period this morning that we barely taught either. Get a clue.

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Anonymous wrote:I drove from AU to St. Alban's to downtown - no issues at all - no accidents. I took it slow - like the cars around me.

And I drove from Connecticut Ave. to Wisconsin Ave. and saw two accidents.

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Yawn, saith the Yankee.

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if you didn't like the snow response in DC, then vote against Gray (and for anyone but Orange, who is a buffoon). And if Gray gets through the Democratic primary, then vote for Catania in the general election. Washington needs to become a grown-up city, finally.

I think DC is in danger of slipping back into Barry-era complacency. Remember when the Mayor for Life infamously said that his plan to deal with snow and ice was "spring"? (Of course, his real way of dealing with "snow" was with a mirror and a straw.)