Snow day

Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Our road is icy AF, and the plows haven’t done much at all due to the underlying ice. No sidewalks currently available for any of the kids, which means they’d be walking on the road to get anywhere.

See you tomorrow for Thursday predictions.



tell the neighbors to clean, call VDOT AND ASK THEM WHERE THEY ARE AT.... KIDS NEEDS TO BE BACK
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Remember January 2010 when we got around 20” of snow and schools were closed for three weeks?


Didn’t happen
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Our road is icy AF, and the plows haven’t done much at all due to the underlying ice. No sidewalks currently available for any of the kids, which means they’d be walking on the road to get anywhere.

See you tomorrow for Thursday predictions.



tell the neighbors to clean, call VDOT AND ASK THEM WHERE THEY ARE AT.... KIDS NEEDS TO BE BACK


Why do kids need to be back? The annual schedule includes extra days for weather cancelations. Let the kids use them.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Our road is icy AF, and the plows haven’t done much at all due to the underlying ice. No sidewalks currently available for any of the kids, which means they’d be walking on the road to get anywhere.

See you tomorrow for Thursday predictions.



tell the neighbors to clean, call VDOT AND ASK THEM WHERE THEY ARE AT.... KIDS NEEDS TO BE BACK


Why do kids need to be back? The annual schedule includes extra days for weather cancelations. Let the kids use them.


THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anonymous
I was just out to shovel the driveway this AM. The sun is going to help with melting. I think the sidewalks and driveways in our area are going to be fine since most everyone shoveled yesterday. I suspect more people will be out driving today which will help the roads. My prediction is a 2 hour delay for tomorrow but this is FCPS so I won't be surprised by a closure.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Our road is icy AF, and the plows haven’t done much at all due to the underlying ice. No sidewalks currently available for any of the kids, which means they’d be walking on the road to get anywhere.

See you tomorrow for Thursday predictions.



tell the neighbors to clean, call VDOT AND ASK THEM WHERE THEY ARE AT.... KIDS NEEDS TO BE BACK


Why do kids need to be back? The annual schedule includes extra days for weather cancelations. Let the kids use them.


THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Do you ever want to go back? IF SO WHEN? We used 3 snows days this year counting tomorrow.

Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Our road is icy AF, and the plows haven’t done much at all due to the underlying ice. No sidewalks currently available for any of the kids, which means they’d be walking on the road to get anywhere.

See you tomorrow for Thursday predictions.



tell the neighbors to clean, call VDOT AND ASK THEM WHERE THEY ARE AT.... KIDS NEEDS TO BE BACK


I will do no such thing, Karen.
Anonymous
THEY WON'T BE OPEN TOMRROW. JUST A PHONE BACK FROM VDOT. THEY WILL BE DONE WITH SNOWING CLEANING BY 8 PM ON WEDNESDAY.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Our road is icy AF, and the plows haven’t done much at all due to the underlying ice. No sidewalks currently available for any of the kids, which means they’d be walking on the road to get anywhere.

See you tomorrow for Thursday predictions.



tell the neighbors to clean, call VDOT AND ASK THEM WHERE THEY ARE AT.... KIDS NEEDS TO BE BACK


Why do kids need to be back? The annual schedule includes extra days for weather cancelations. Let the kids use them.


It doesn't really. The time comes from counting extra minutes for arrival, departure, and in between bells, not days.

I am not in a rush but my kid is as easy going kid who has friends in walking distance or a short drive. He is doing well in school and can stand to miss a few days without it hurting him. It also helps that I have some telework flexibility and my DH now works from home so we don't have to stress about child care plans or be annoyed at losing PTO. And yes, we know snow days are a part of parenting and we made it work when we did not have telework flexibility and losing PTO days was annoying but we did some grumbling.

There are other kids who are more high maintenance at home who are probably driving their parents crazy. There are a lot of kids who need all the time in school in order to retain and learn new material. Missing days of school is legitimately detrimental to those kids. There are kids who thrive on structure and all the time off is problematic for them, they need the structure that comes from school. There are parents who work who took time off during the break and need to get back to work to pay the bills that might be struggling.

I don't understand why people cannot see that their situation is not everyone else's situation and let people be grumpy over something that maybe is not a problem for you. I do get mocking the people from other parts of the country that live with snow and super cold temperatures for 4-6 months. We don't live in those areas and you need to adjust to a different normal. Kids don't get as many chances to play in the snow so snow days are really special for them. Accept the situation with some bewilderment and let it go, we don't live in a Mid West or Northern state.
Anonymous
The ice is definitely worse today. Regarding those saying "clean your stuff and call VDOT", a) individual neighbors aren't making the infrastructure critical cleaning B) do you think VDOT isn't trying? What exactly would that accomplish. If anything calling them would just waste their time.

Stuff happens, this is part of life, getting worked up over it isn't going to do anything.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:The plow never came back to our neighborhood after our one visit yesterday at 7:30 am.

No school tomorrow, folks.


Same here. They made one pass yesterday morning and it honestly didn’t seem to do much. This happens a lot during storms though. It’s like they check it off their list and that’s it.

Looking at the VDOT map I see two trucks on the main roads and no contractor trucks on any of the side streets in our nearby Springfield neighborhoods. Maybe they’re done?
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:THEY WON'T BE OPEN TOMRROW. JUST A PHONE BACK FROM VDOT. THEY WILL BE DONE WITH SNOWING CLEANING BY 8 PM ON WEDNESDAY.


Stop shouting. It's rude.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:THEY WON'T BE OPEN TOMRROW. JUST A PHONE BACK FROM VDOT. THEY WILL BE DONE WITH SNOWING CLEANING BY 8 PM ON WEDNESDAY.


Is your Caps Lock stuck?
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:The thing is that the snow/ice is not going to melt. So I don't see that it will be any better on Thursday/Friday than Wednesday. So maybe they say just figure it out and we're opening Wednesday because we can't stay closed forever?


LOL
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Our road is icy AF, and the plows haven’t done much at all due to the underlying ice. No sidewalks currently available for any of the kids, which means they’d be walking on the road to get anywhere.

See you tomorrow for Thursday predictions.



tell the neighbors to clean, call VDOT AND ASK THEM WHERE THEY ARE AT.... KIDS NEEDS TO BE BACK


CALM DOWN. THEY WILL BE HOME.
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