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Friday's "snow?"
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Anonymous
Exactly. It's like covid again with the chicken littles. |
Anonymous
The multiple mcps bus drivers that I talked to yesterday adamantly disagree with this. |
Anonymous
Like driving a car, it helps to get experience in a bus. Because MCPS is historically so quick to close, some drivers will have limited experience. The may have been nervous, like when they first started driving. Some may have even slid into things. But remember, accidents in this conditions are typically minor fender benders at slow speeds with minimal injuries. |
Anonymous
+1000000 |
Anonymous
Dependent on tires as well as road conditions. Not many busses handle hilly roads covered in ice. It's dependent on many factors. I wouldn't want to drive a bus in the conditions yesterday. It is one thing to drive my family. It is another beast entirely to be responsible for a bus full of children on roads as bad as yesterday morning. |
Anonymous
| Haha! This makes me so happy my child attends the private school in my neighborhood. No buses, no closures, no missing teachers, no guns, no underperforming students or any other maladies y'all plebians complain about. Guess you all will have to work harder and put your child in private school so you can finally stop your whining. |
Anonymous
What if the thing you slide into is a kid? I said this above, but I skidded through a stop sign very, very close to my children’s school, where a lot of kids were walking their normal route. I was going slow. I am used to driving in the northeast. These were untreated side streets and there was ice. Having lived in the northeast, I appreciate the sentiment that we should be able to handle this kind of weather. The fact remains however that many roads were dangerously untreated and I’m shocked school happened as it did. |
Anonymous
In an area where we are typically only minority inconveniences by snow, we will never have the infrastructure to handle snow and ice efficiently. And we will never get good at driving in snow and ice efficiently. The email from the county is an embarrassment. And the fact that they couldn’t figure out conditions is bull. My kid works on snow crew in the county driving plows and salt trucks. He got called in to work at 2 am. There is no possible way to make the roads safe in the three hours they had before school buses went out. There was a bus collision. Kids sat on buses for hours. Kids who needed breakfast didn’t get it. Buses couldn’t reach all of the kids so not everyone could get to school. Teachers couldn’t all get in so some teachers covered multiple classes which means babysitting and damage control not education. It was not business as usual. |
Anonymous
Better than crashing into kids at full speed, which happens when conditions are good. You're trying to compare the best-case scenario on a sunny, warm day to the worse-case scenario on a snowy day. That's a ridiculous comparison. |
Anonymous
You either didn't go outside or you don't understand the difference between snow and ice. Buses will do fine in the snow. Just keep moving when you're going up and down hill or around turns. You want to avoid stopping and sudden acceleration. That's the most common mistake I see here. |
Anonymous
Have you ever lived in a northern climate? What do you think happens when it snows? That they have armies of trucks that magically clear snow off the roads as soon as it falls? No, of course not. With the exception of 270, the roads in Montgomery County were as good or better than you'd expect to find in New York, Michigan, or Wisconsin, or Minnesota. People just understand you can drive in those conditions. You can drive in much worse conditions, actually. And no, they don't have special cars or tires there. Just more common sense. |
Anonymous
| Anyone saying roads were clear was not driving north on 270 from Rockville to Gaithersburg to try and get to a school. The highway was covered in snow, no clear lanes and multiple accidents in front of me. It was very dangerous |
Anonymous
I somewhat agree with this. While 270 was drivable, it was in much rougher shape than it should have been. The conditions improved immediately upon entering Frederick County. Though, if you're nervous about snow, you should really avoid 270 and the beltway as much as possible. Basically, avoid freeways for lower-speed roads. Too many idiots out there who think they can drive full speed. That's not unique to the DMV. There isn't much risk on non-freeway thoroughfares. |
Anonymous
As a teacher and a parent whose kids are past before care, and daycare age, I find it fascinating that on Tuesday parents who weren’t teachers were saying it’s entirely unfair to expect them to have back up plans for early care. But teachers who couldn’t make it to school on time because the time between their childcare drop off and school opening wasn’t long enough to make it to work on time, are “refusing to plan” or “throwing tantrums”. |
Anonymous
Y’all, my’all kids go to private school and I still had to get in the car and drive they’all to school in the snow, because that’s how it works. |