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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now try to imagine if electricity was out for several days too. Essential services are too vulnerable and freak storms will only increase. Nobody anticipate such ice, but also nobody tried to manage the aftermath. 8 days after, roads are crazy. Is anyone planning for the future storms? Because, next time, MCPS will be closed 2 weeks, or 3. What if supermarkets close for 5 straight days too? And MoCo is one of the richest counties in the country. There are huge lessons to be learnt here if we want to keep civilized order when bigger crises come.

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Yes, I think the important thing is to look at what happened and identify lessons learned for the future. In the past I think we have always counted on the snow melting at some point. It's never been this cold for so long after a storm and it was a lot of precipitation. So yeah, MCDOT should think about planning for what they should do better when the snow doesn't melt.

But the message MCPS sent on Sunday publicly was inappropriate. If they had made those requests earlier and MCDOT was not responsive yeah I get they'd be peeved. But it just looks bad for them to point fingers without even trying to solve the issue first. It's trashy behavior.[/quote]

Trashy or not, MCDOT deserves it. WTH are we all paying taxes for?

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We are paying taxes for:
- Building and operating public schools 
- Police
- Fire and Rescue
- Corrections
- Public health 
- Montgomery College
- Building and maintaining roads, sidewalks and bikeways
- Running the parks system
- Building and operating libraries
- other things

There are also a lot of user fee based things like building permitting, housing code enforcement, and trash and recycling removal but those are not funded with general taxes.[/quote]

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