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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS has a fleet of over 1,300 school buses stationed across 6 bus depots. A school bus can be driven through 3-6 inches of snow. If we get 6 inches or more (Capital Weather Gang’s latest estimate is 5-10 inches), the buses will have to be dug out. That’s what took so long after the 30” snowfall in 2016. It takes a tremendous amount of manpower to do that job — much more than clearing empty parking lots. If we have substantial accumulation, it’s the bus depots you need to worry about.[/quote]

But the parking lots was their excuse for not opening child care last year.[/quote]
What’s your point? A 5” snowfall means they have to clear parking lots. A 10” snowfall means they have to clear parking lots AND the bus depots, with the same manpower. That would take more time.[/quote]

The difference between MCPS and everyone else - Private sector employers, county government, apartment buildings - is that everyone else pays contractors to clear their snow because they have a financial incentive to do so (if only to avoid lawsuits) while MCPS has zero incentive as they can just close schools indefinitely.[/quote]

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