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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly if you can't drive in light snow, then you should turn in your drivers license. Or move to Miami. But you can't live in a city that routinely receives small amounts of snow (and occasionally large amounts) and expect the world to shut down every time you see a flake.[/quote]

I would not say DC routinely gets light snow.  3-4 delayed openings for MCPS is average, many years with none, and multiple years with no snow days at all, so maybe five snowfalls a year?  I believe it's actually been two years without an inch of measurable snow.  So a blizzard every five years doesn't create a routine.  There's a difference between "shutting down" and making efforts (such as DELAYING opening, not closing) to reduce traffic on the roads during rush hour.  On my commute from Gaithersburg to Silver Spring, I passed 11 accidents and disabled cars.  Some were obviously high school students.  My neighborhood roads and some of the not-quite-major streets (2-3 lanes each way) were untreated.  You can drive on three or four inches of snow once it's packed down--driving in an inch of falling snow is a different story.

MCPS etc should have delayed opening today.  Two hours to let traffic clear and roads get treated would have made everything much smoother.[/quote]

+1 Yes, this.[/quote]

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