TWO HOUR DELAY
It's on the FCPS website

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone wants a delay. Will know at 6pm

I hope FCPS makes a decision before everyone goes to bed. I know my DS' teachers live as far away as Fredericksburg!

And I hope they wait until the morning. We've been burned by far too many snow days when there's literally NO snow on the ground in a 50 mile radius of the most western part of western Fairfax county.

Your argument could have been valid until you threw in the hyperbolic, outrageously incorrect last part.

When has there been a single, let alone "far too many" snow day(s) during which there was no snow within a 50-mile radius?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone wants a delay. Will know at 6pm

I hope FCPS makes a decision before everyone goes to bed. I know my DS' teachers live as far away as Fredericksburg!

Luckily for them, the further south you go along 95, the more likely you are to just see rain with this event. People coming from Fburg or Woodbridge etc. will be fine. It will be worse in the north and west.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone wants a delay. Will know at 6pm

I hope FCPS makes a decision before everyone goes to bed. I know my DS' teachers live as far away as Fredericksburg!

And what prevents them getting an alert at 5 or 6 am when it's clear how the event plays out? It's a minor system that is likely to be mostly rain. If it shifts a significant amount that might require a delay, but that will be clear by morning. No use in just guessing.

Middle school busses: ours is at 6:20. I suspect that they will evaluate the forecast around 11 pm and/or 5 am.

I miss the good old days when they waited to see how the weather actually turned out before issuing a delay or closing.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone wants a delay. Will know at 6pm

I hope FCPS makes a decision before everyone goes to bed. I know my DS' teachers live as far away as Fredericksburg!

And I hope they wait until the morning. We've been burned by far too many snow days when there's literally NO snow on the ground in a 50 mile radius of the most western part of western Fairfax county.

Anonymous wrote:I don't know about your students, but my high schoolers are praying for a delay so that they can sleep in

FCPS, do not dash their hopes.

They didn't sleep enough over the five day weekend? Mommies like you are the reason kids are so poorly behaved.

Unlikely. And honestly, many families where both parents work OOH want schools to be open.

I want to know one way or another!

When do they have to tell us by? I still see snow in the overnight forecast. Will there be a delay or not?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone wants a delay. Will know at 6pm

I hope FCPS makes a decision before everyone goes to bed. I know my DS' teachers live as far away as Fredericksburg!

And what prevents them getting an alert at 5 or 6 am when it's clear how the event plays out? It's a minor system that is likely to be mostly rain. If it shifts a significant amount that might require a delay, but that will be clear by morning. No use in just guessing.

Anonymous wrote:Everyone wants a delay. Will know at 6pm

I hope FCPS makes a decision before everyone goes to bed. I know my DS' teachers live as far away as Fredericksburg!

Everyone wants a delay. Will know at 6pm

Very unlikely

I don't know about your students, but my high schoolers are praying for a delay so that they can sleep in

FCPS, do not dash their hopes.