DCPS and Snow

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Anonymous wrote:lol it’s barely more than a dusting. Glad to see DCPS is back to its pre-COVID stance of keeping schools open. I also note the lack of posters on here crying that “the children are going to DIE if schools are open!!!” I guess the snowcrete episode did someone to recalibrate the region’s view of what constitutes bad winter weather?

I think it's because the snowcrete was a legit hazard, whereas this is a dusting. I'm glad to see that DCPS continues to make smart decisions, both today and during last month's more complex snow issues.

Anywhere that inches is considered a dusting would have sanded/salted the streets and everyone would be out shoveling their sidewalks. Maybe things will clear up in the next two hours and DCPS will have made the right call, but OPM definitely did not.

You can't salt in the rain. It would have all washed away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember as a kid when it snowed Moco, PG all the surrounding counties would be closed. DC would always open 2 hours late. We'd laugh. It was always a cluster or they'd change their minds at like 6 am when people were already trying to head out. Nothing has changed in decades!

The place with one type of weather makes a different call than the places with a different type of weather. And it's been that way for decades! Wow.

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Anonymous wrote:I remember as a kid when it snowed Moco, PG all the surrounding counties would be closed. DC would always open 2 hours late. We'd laugh. It was always a cluster or they'd change their minds at like 6 am when people were already trying to head out. Nothing has changed in decades!

Montgomery county is huge. Kids in Takoma Park have snow days when all they get is rain because upcounty got snow. I would argue that is worse than DC.

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Anonymous wrote:Our daycare just closed citing DCPS closing as the reason, but I can still only find that DCPS is on a two-hour delay. Am I missing something? Did DCPS close?

Maybe they know something we don’t know yet? It’s probably too late for dcps schools to close though

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It’s still snowing…

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Half the buses are running on delays so I guess my kids will just be late.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I remember as a kid when it snowed Moco, PG all the surrounding counties would be closed. DC would always open 2 hours late. We'd laugh. It was always a cluster or they'd change their minds at like 6 am when people were already trying to head out. Nothing has changed in decades!

Montgomery county is huge. Kids in Takoma Park have snow days when all they get is rain because upcounty got snow. I would argue that is worse than DC.

Same with Fairfax. They are always closed.

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Anonymous wrote:Half the buses are running on delays so I guess my kids will just be late.

Same. The mayor should’ve closed the schools. Can’t wait for her to be gone

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Anonymous wrote:Dumb decision- we got nothing

LOL. It's 5" here in NW.

What are you talking about? We have maybe an inch and virtually nothing on roads or sidewalks.

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My kids were not school-age yet during the 2010 Snowmageddon. Would someone mind explaining what happened during that time period?

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I my neighborhood in NW there is a bit on the cars but nothing stuck to the roads and very little is on the sidewalks or our front stairs. I can sweep it away.

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Anonymous wrote:I my neighborhood in NW there is a bit on the cars but nothing stuck to the roads and very little is on the sidewalks or our front stairs. I can sweep it away.

That is crazy. There is 6" at Janney, but the roads are plowed.

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Are you kidding? Did I read that right? 6 inches of snow at Janney?

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Anonymous wrote:Are you kidding? Did I read that right? 6 inches of snow at Janney?

Spring Valley, Wesley Heights -- same.

[Anonymous]

Right call. Pathetic to cancel with this amount of snow.