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Anonymous wrote:Are buses ready?

Bus depot?

Bus drivers navigating on these conditions?

13k bus stops?

Sidewalks leading to those bus stops? (County was going to resume enforcement of unshoveled sidewalks Monday)

They've been working on bus depots since last week. The pictures looked pretty good at the Clarksburg depot, and those were taken 5 days ago.

Bus stops and sidewalks don't need to be fully clear. Kids can walk on snow. But the county did a lot of work on sidewalks over the weekend.

And how are the roads where buses pass through? Looked like blocks of freezing rain. How will bus drivers turn around those snow banks? Will guardS be mitigating the intersections to assist bus drivers?! And the students who walk to and from school? And to the bus stops? Not everyone lives on a cul de sac.

Most streets are fine. There may be some exceptional cases where buses have to modify their routes. People will manage.

Source?

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Anonymous wrote:Sidewalks at bus stops may be a mess but schools will open anyway.

The best think parents could do last week and this weekend was to buy their kids snowboots to handle the snowbanks.

That was kind of you to offer parents snow boots for them and their kids

I'm a DCUM poor, and even I equip my family properly for winter. You buy in November. If your kid changes shoe size over the winter, you curse and buy again as soon as you realize it. BTDT.

DCUM poor isn’t the issue. There are really poor people in the county. Including those who have never had to deal with snow and ice before.

I grew up really poor. We got laughed at for wearing plastic bags over our shoes to try to stay dry. Fine, we got to school in the rain rather than sitting at home. However, you can’t climb a 2 foot mound of ice with plastic bags tied over your shoes.

I did, too. That's not how you do it. You put the plastic bags *inside* the shoes to keep your feet dry.

I find it hard to believe someone would actually do it the other way. Obviously that isn't going to work. The plastic would just tear.

DP. Nah kids who needed this method did it both ways.

I've seen plastic bags used many times. I've never seen someone try to put them outside the shoes. That isn't going to work. It will tear, and before it tears, you're going to fall. If you've seen people in Maryland do that, to maybe we do need to send a mass email out telling people what not to do.

I have seen plastic bags inside shoes. Then you just don't wear shoes at your desk, or, ideally, you bring a second set of old shoes.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidewalks at bus stops may be a mess but schools will open anyway.

The best think parents could do last week and this weekend was to buy their kids snowboots to handle the snowbanks.

That was kind of you to offer parents snow boots for them and their kids

I'm a DCUM poor, and even I equip my family properly for winter. You buy in November. If your kid changes shoe size over the winter, you curse and buy again as soon as you realize it. BTDT.

DCUM poor isn’t the issue. There are really poor people in the county. Including those who have never had to deal with snow and ice before.

I grew up really poor. We got laughed at for wearing plastic bags over our shoes to try to stay dry. Fine, we got to school in the rain rather than sitting at home. However, you can’t climb a 2 foot mound of ice with plastic bags tied over your shoes.

Thank you for sharing. More need to speak up.

I guess the district could send out some common-sense approaches to dealing with snow, but are people really that dense here? I think the reactions are driven more by fear/anxiety than ignorance.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidewalks at bus stops may be a mess but schools will open anyway.

The best think parents could do last week and this weekend was to buy their kids snowboots to handle the snowbanks.

That was kind of you to offer parents snow boots for them and their kids

I'm a DCUM poor, and even I equip my family properly for winter. You buy in November. If your kid changes shoe size over the winter, you curse and buy again as soon as you realize it. BTDT.

DCUM poor isn’t the issue. There are really poor people in the county. Including those who have never had to deal with snow and ice before.

I grew up really poor. We got laughed at for wearing plastic bags over our shoes to try to stay dry. Fine, we got to school in the rain rather than sitting at home. However, you can’t climb a 2 foot mound of ice with plastic bags tied over your shoes.

I did, too. That's not how you do it. You put the plastic bags *inside* the shoes to keep your feet dry.

I find it hard to believe someone would actually do it the other way. Obviously that isn't going to work. The plastic would just tear.

DP. Nah kids who needed this method did it both ways.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are buses ready?

Bus depot?

Bus drivers navigating on these conditions?

13k bus stops?

Sidewalks leading to those bus stops? (County was going to resume enforcement of unshoveled sidewalks Monday)

They've been working on bus depots since last week. The pictures looked pretty good at the Clarksburg depot, and those were taken 5 days ago.

Bus stops and sidewalks don't need to be fully clear. Kids can walk on snow. But the county did a lot of work on sidewalks over the weekend.

And how are the roads where buses pass through? Looked like blocks of freezing rain. How will bus drivers turn around those snow banks? Will guardS be mitigating the intersections to assist bus drivers?! And the students who walk to and from school? And to the bus stops? Not everyone lives on a cul de sac.

Most streets are fine. There may be some exceptional cases where buses have to modify their routes. People will manage.

Your kids don't ride a school bus. Got it.

They don't now, but they used it to. I've been through the days of occasionally having to come back and drive them because the bus never showed up. You can too if it really comes to that, but it probably won't. The bus might honk at your kids from a block away and they'll walk over. More likely it will be business-as-usual.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidewalks at bus stops may be a mess but schools will open anyway.

The best think parents could do last week and this weekend was to buy their kids snowboots to handle the snowbanks.

That was kind of you to offer parents snow boots for them and their kids

I'm a DCUM poor, and even I equip my family properly for winter. You buy in November. If your kid changes shoe size over the winter, you curse and buy again as soon as you realize it. BTDT.

DCUM poor isn’t the issue. There are really poor people in the county. Including those who have never had to deal with snow and ice before.

I grew up really poor. We got laughed at for wearing plastic bags over our shoes to try to stay dry. Fine, we got to school in the rain rather than sitting at home. However, you can’t climb a 2 foot mound of ice with plastic bags tied over your shoes.

My husband has been climbing them with his very worn sneakers all week. The ones with holes in them. At this point they're rock-hard, so it's not like you can sink in the mire or anything. And most of the ones I've encountered on my walks with my dog already have steps formed into them by other people - you just need to step in those and you can get up and down easily.

Not a big deal at all. What could be dangerous is slipping into the street and getting hit by a vehicle. I hope everyone stays safe at bus stops!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidewalks at bus stops may be a mess but schools will open anyway.

The best think parents could do last week and this weekend was to buy their kids snowboots to handle the snowbanks.

That was kind of you to offer parents snow boots for them and their kids

I'm a DCUM poor, and even I equip my family properly for winter. You buy in November. If your kid changes shoe size over the winter, you curse and buy again as soon as you realize it. BTDT.

DCUM poor isn’t the issue. There are really poor people in the county. Including those who have never had to deal with snow and ice before.

I grew up really poor. We got laughed at for wearing plastic bags over our shoes to try to stay dry. Fine, we got to school in the rain rather than sitting at home. However, you can’t climb a 2 foot mound of ice with plastic bags tied over your shoes.

I did, too. That's not how you do it. You put the plastic bags *inside* the shoes to keep your feet dry.

I find it hard to believe someone would actually do it the other way. Obviously that isn't going to work. The plastic would just tear.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are buses ready?

Bus depot?

Bus drivers navigating on these conditions?

13k bus stops?

Sidewalks leading to those bus stops? (County was going to resume enforcement of unshoveled sidewalks Monday)

They've been working on bus depots since last week. The pictures looked pretty good at the Clarksburg depot, and those were taken 5 days ago.

Bus stops and sidewalks don't need to be fully clear. Kids can walk on snow. But the county did a lot of work on sidewalks over the weekend.

And how are the roads where buses pass through? Looked like blocks of freezing rain. How will bus drivers turn around those snow banks? Will guardS be mitigating the intersections to assist bus drivers?! And the students who walk to and from school? And to the bus stops? Not everyone lives on a cul de sac.

Most streets are fine. There may be some exceptional cases where buses have to modify their routes. People will manage.

Your kids don't ride a school bus. Got it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidewalks at bus stops may be a mess but schools will open anyway.

The best think parents could do last week and this weekend was to buy their kids snowboots to handle the snowbanks.

That was kind of you to offer parents snow boots for them and their kids

I'm a DCUM poor, and even I equip my family properly for winter. You buy in November. If your kid changes shoe size over the winter, you curse and buy again as soon as you realize it. BTDT.

DCUM poor isn’t the issue. There are really poor people in the county. Including those who have never had to deal with snow and ice before.

I grew up really poor. We got laughed at for wearing plastic bags over our shoes to try to stay dry. Fine, we got to school in the rain rather than sitting at home. However, you can’t climb a 2 foot mound of ice with plastic bags tied over your shoes.

Thank you for sharing. More need to speak up.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are buses ready?

Bus depot?

Bus drivers navigating on these conditions?

13k bus stops?

Sidewalks leading to those bus stops? (County was going to resume enforcement of unshoveled sidewalks Monday)

They've been working on bus depots since last week. The pictures looked pretty good at the Clarksburg depot, and those were taken 5 days ago.

Bus stops and sidewalks don't need to be fully clear. Kids can walk on snow. But the county did a lot of work on sidewalks over the weekend.

And how are the roads where buses pass through? Looked like blocks of freezing rain. How will bus drivers turn around those snow banks? Will guardS be mitigating the intersections to assist bus drivers?! And the students who walk to and from school? And to the bus stops? Not everyone lives on a cul de sac.

Most streets are fine. There may be some exceptional cases where buses have to modify their routes. People will manage.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidewalks at bus stops may be a mess but schools will open anyway.

The best think parents could do last week and this weekend was to buy their kids snowboots to handle the snowbanks.

That was kind of you to offer parents snow boots for them and their kids

I'm a DCUM poor, and even I equip my family properly for winter. You buy in November. If your kid changes shoe size over the winter, you curse and buy again as soon as you realize it. BTDT.

DCUM poor isn’t the issue. There are really poor people in the county. Including those who have never had to deal with snow and ice before.

I grew up really poor. We got laughed at for wearing plastic bags over our shoes to try to stay dry. Fine, we got to school in the rain rather than sitting at home. However, you can’t climb a 2 foot mound of ice with plastic bags tied over your shoes.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidewalks at bus stops may be a mess but schools will open anyway.

The best think parents could do last week and this weekend was to buy their kids snowboots to handle the snowbanks.

That was kind of you to offer parents snow boots for them and their kids

I'm a DCUM poor, and even I equip my family properly for winter. You buy in November. If your kid changes shoe size over the winter, you curse and buy again as soon as you realize it. BTDT.

Take your crap over to the sites distributing meals last week.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are buses ready?

Bus depot?

Bus drivers navigating on these conditions?

13k bus stops?

Sidewalks leading to those bus stops? (County was going to resume enforcement of unshoveled sidewalks Monday)

They've been working on bus depots since last week. The pictures looked pretty good at the Clarksburg depot, and those were taken 5 days ago.

Bus stops and sidewalks don't need to be fully clear. Kids can walk on snow. But the county did a lot of work on sidewalks over the weekend.

And how are the roads where buses pass through? Looked like blocks of freezing rain. How will bus drivers turn around those snow banks? Will guardS be mitigating the intersections to assist bus drivers?! And the students who walk to and from school? And to the bus stops? Not everyone lives on a cul de sac.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh we get it OP. But MCPS offices are closed too and we do not get that at all

Offices include all 12 month school staff (principal, AP, secretaries) so if all 200+ admin teams can't get into their buildings, offices are closed. Also the actual central office lots get plowed last because they focus on schools first.

BS

MCPS is now in commercial office space and pay astronomical rent. Their parking lot is cleared by their landlord.

+1 ridiculous that anyone is claiming if one 12 month worker can't get to the office everyone gets the day off. Most of us non MCPS workers are using our leave today if we need to stay home with our kids

NP. Don’t be obtuse, obviously it is not just one employee. People who don’t work in schools have no idea how many 12 month employees are in some schools. My school has a very high number out of necessity.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidewalks at bus stops may be a mess but schools will open anyway.

The best think parents could do last week and this weekend was to buy their kids snowboots to handle the snowbanks.

That was kind of you to offer parents snow boots for them and their kids

I'm a DCUM poor, and even I equip my family properly for winter. You buy in November. If your kid changes shoe size over the winter, you curse and buy again as soon as you realize it. BTDT.