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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s the thing. It’s not going to START melting until Monday or Tuesday. That’s a VERY unusual situation for DC, to have gotten this much precipitation and not see so much as a minute above freezing for a week.

If it was going to be 38 degrees tomorrow, it might make sense to wait another day, let stuff soften up and start to melt, send the plows out again to move the slushier snow, before kids are back. After all, to other people’s points, it IS pretty rough out there.

But at this point - by the time school starts tomorrow, 99% of streets will have been plowed and salted at least once since the snow stopped. People have had plenty of time to shovel sidewalks. Which means nothing else is substantively going to change between 6am tomorrow (Wed) and next week. So we either go to school tomorrow and tough it out or literally not go back until next Monday/Tuesday.

So I think we should go back (and I think we will). [/quote]

I want school to open tomorrow and think it will, but the 99% figure is way off. I'd say 25% of Capitol Hill still isn't plowed at all, including streets directly adjacent to schools. The non-plowed streets aren't contiguous, so assuming the rest of the city is similar or worse, I don't see how we're to 99% by tomorrow morning.[/quote]

PP here. That's just objectively not true. Look at the snowplow tracker: https://citizeninsights.geotab.com/#/dcsnowgov

More than half the city has been plowed in the last 12 hours. And for what it's worth, my street was plowed yesterday, and so is black on this map, but is "clear" (I mean, it's still rough out there).

There are very, very few streets that have truly NEVER been plowed since the snow stopped on Sunday night and are sitting under 8 inches of pristine snow and ice.

Now, the plows don't come for a while, stuff gets kicked up, especially by people digging cars out, so it's not like you're going to see a bunch of clear black pavement. But yes, I'm pretty confident that we'll be at 99%-ish by tomorrow morning having gotten at least one pass.

DC residents just aren't used to the reality of snow that doesn't melt in a couple days. [/quote]

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