Anonymous
02/20/2015 17:18
Subject: I survived a zero degree school commute
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The head of schools in Louisville KY was speaking at a news conference yesterday where they said Jefferson County schools would be closed 2/20. One of the reasons was not wanting kids to wait outside in cold that can cause frostbite in minutes. The main reason is that at below freezing temps even with additives diesel fuel has natural wax in it that starts to solidify and clog fuel filters and fuel lines, which can cause a school bus to break down leaving your kids frozen dead corpses inside unless they get help right away.
1. no school buses in DC, so issue of school buses breaing down is moot
2. because no school buses, kids do not wait outside on the cold. also schools let kids in and don't let them line up outside when is so cold, so again, no issues of little kids freezing to death while waiting outside in DC
Not true. My Deal student takes Metro bus to school and waited at the bus stop this morning and afternoon.
Anonymous
02/20/2015 16:40
Subject: I survived a zero degree school commute
Anonymous wrote:The head of schools in Louisville KY was speaking at a news conference yesterday where they said Jefferson County schools would be closed 2/20. One of the reasons was not wanting kids to wait outside in cold that can cause frostbite in minutes. The main reason is that at below freezing temps even with additives diesel fuel has natural wax in it that starts to solidify and clog fuel filters and fuel lines, which can cause a school bus to break down leaving your kids frozen dead corpses inside unless they get help right away.
1. no school buses in DC, so issue of school buses breaing down is moot
2. because no school buses, kids do not wait outside on the cold. also schools let kids in and don't let them line up outside when is so cold, so again, no issues of little kids freezing to death while waiting outside in DC
Anonymous
02/20/2015 15:59
Subject: I survived a zero degree school commute
Anonymous wrote:The head of schools in Louisville KY was speaking at a news conference yesterday where they said Jefferson County schools would be closed 2/20. One of the reasons was not wanting kids to wait outside in cold that can cause frostbite in minutes. The main reason is that at below freezing temps even with additives diesel fuel has natural wax in it that starts to solidify and clog fuel filters and fuel lines, which can cause a school bus to break down leaving your kids frozen dead corpses inside unless they get help right away.
Did this happen in DC or the rest of the country for that matter, stop being an alarmist and get out more!!!
Anonymous
02/20/2015 15:52
Subject: I survived a zero degree school commute
The head of schools in Louisville KY was speaking at a news conference yesterday where they said Jefferson County schools would be closed 2/20. One of the reasons was not wanting kids to wait outside in cold that can cause frostbite in minutes. The main reason is that at below freezing temps even with additives diesel fuel has natural wax in it that starts to solidify and clog fuel filters and fuel lines, which can cause a school bus to break down leaving your kids frozen dead corpses inside unless they get help right away.
Anonymous
02/20/2015 15:13
Subject: I survived a zero degree school commute
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Did you?
DCPS gets it right and all the working parents breathe a sigh of relief as their friends in Fairfax County justify another day off to their boss.
DCPS sucks and no amount of classroom time would make schools there acceptable to most parents who care about their children's education, as opposed to daycare.
You speak of education as a priority but used "sucks" in your post. The irony.
+ 1.
Anonymous
02/20/2015 13:34
Subject: I survived a zero degree school commute
Fairfax schools are closed because they have bus issues in cold weather. DC doesn't rely on a school bus fleet.
Anonymous
02/20/2015 12:03
Subject: Re:I survived a zero degree school commute
Anonymous wrote:Of course you survived. It's ridiculous to cancel school for cold weather. Insanely cold weather - like -20 degrees? Of course. It's 11 degrees. It's above zero. Even with the windchill it's only a few degrees below. My Boy Scouts camp outside in tents in temperatures in the teens. So far we haven't lost anyone. We've never even had a cold weather injury.
This is insanely cold weather. -20 degrees is against the Geneva Conventions, and should just be flat out banned, IMNSHO. Your mind has been addled by the cold, friend.
(That said, we commuted, and we'll take the bus home, probably.)
Anonymous
02/20/2015 10:19
Subject: Re:I survived a zero degree school commute
Wow, OP, you are so amazing. The world bows before you. 
Anonymous
02/20/2015 10:16
Subject: I survived a zero degree school commute
Anonymous wrote:I drove my daughter 1.5 blocks. She dawdles so much it would have been torture and taken 10 minutes. I'm ok with my choices
No need to justify. When the temp is in single numbers.
Anonymous
02/20/2015 10:15
Subject: I survived a zero degree school commute
Anonymous wrote:As my Minnesota mother used to tell me, "There is no bad weather, only bad coats/ winter clothes. Get the hell out there and stop whining."
That's a variation of an old sailors law - There is no bad weather, only lack of preparation.
Anonymous
02/20/2015 10:14
Subject: I survived a zero degree school commute
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We survived too. I have one DD in FCPS (well, a parochial school that follows FCPS for snow schedules) and one in daycare. So all of us were up and out, dropping off the little one at daycare and now the older one and I are at my office. I was dumbfounded that FCPS closed schools today. It's so ridiculous. She has only had one school day this entire week!
What do you want, sympathy? You obviously just bashed DCPS in the post above--we don't care about your small minded suburban drama.
Me? The above post was my first post on this thread.
(In fact, I didn't even really look at see which thread this was on. I am just on "Recent Posts" and clicked on "I survived a zero degree school commute," b/c, well, I survived the 0 degree school commute too.
Anonymous
02/20/2015 10:13
Subject: I survived a zero degree school commute
I drove my daughter 1.5 blocks. She dawdles so much it would have been torture and taken 10 minutes. I'm ok with my choices 
Anonymous
02/20/2015 10:08
Subject: I survived a zero degree school commute
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We survived too. I have one DD in FCPS (well, a parochial school that follows FCPS for snow schedules) and one in daycare. So all of us were up and out, dropping off the little one at daycare and now the older one and I are at my office. I was dumbfounded that FCPS closed schools today. It's so ridiculous. She has only had one school day this entire week!
What do you want, sympathy? You obviously just bashed DCPS in the post above--we don't care about your small minded suburban drama.
Me? The above post was my first post on this thread.
Anonymous
02/20/2015 10:05
Subject: I survived a zero degree school commute
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Did you?
DCPS gets it right and all the working parents breathe a sigh of relief as their friends in Fairfax County justify another day off to their boss.
DCPS sucks and no amount of classroom time would make schools there acceptable to most parents who care about their children's education, as opposed to daycare.
You speak of education as a priority but used "sucks" in your post. The irony.
Anonymous
02/20/2015 09:43
Subject: I survived a zero degree school commute
Anonymous wrote:We survived too. I have one DD in FCPS (well, a parochial school that follows FCPS for snow schedules) and one in daycare. So all of us were up and out, dropping off the little one at daycare and now the older one and I are at my office. I was dumbfounded that FCPS closed schools today. It's so ridiculous. She has only had one school day this entire week!
What do you want, sympathy? You obviously just bashed DCPS in the post above--we don't care about your small minded suburban drama.