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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just came from downtown DC to Bethesda (in an uber bc my alley is a sheet of ice and my low to ground car cannot clear it, not one car or truck has even attempted to drive down it) and the difference between DC and Montgomery County is like night and day. Connecticut and Mass Ave are one lane in each direction, Mass has a large snow pile in the middle. The only fully clear road I saw was Wisconsin. The roads around the Cathedral are not clear and the sidewalks are worse. My uber driver said most of DC is in terrible shape. So if you’re in MoCo, please realize your experience is not necessarily everyone’s. [/quote]

We drove around this morning, it is fine. The parking lot is even open. I know DMV folks are used to this. [b]But the rest of the country thinks it is ridiculous to close the school for so many days for this amount of snow.[/b][/quote]

No, they don't, because most of the country never gets much snow. Raleigh area schools will close for a week if ice seems likely, even if it never materializes. CA Bay Area schools close for unusually heavy rain. Weather closures are specific to the region and what that region is used to.

If you look at areas that do get a lot of snow (NE and Midwest, which is not most of the country) they don't close because they have public services appropriate to their climate. Snow gets cleared, sidewalks get shoveled (often by city workers), cars and bus shelters are chosen for snow, etc. But even NYC and Boston have been snowed over and closed in historic storms, within recent memory. [/quote]

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