Our area in Reston/Herndon is fine. We have not gone out to shovel and the sidewalks are almost totally clear and the drive way is clearing.

It is what it is. This was a weird storm that was hard to predict. The capital Weather Gang was updating predictions for two days and I don’t think they ever got to a point that things felt solid. I get FCPS’s decision. Parents are justifiably miffed with a call at 5 AM because they need to make plans. The call could have been made closer to 6 today because of the delay but that is chaotic. We also don’t know what the weather was like in the areas that bus drivers are coming from.

I would prefer my kid be in school but there is more to the decision then our specific area.

Anonymous wrote:People are looking for plows for this?

For my messy street in my neighborhood yes plow will help, or we can wait in 2 days it will probably clear itself.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been out and back already in western Fairfax County. The roads are totally fine.

The snow is not in western Fairfax. I swear people can’t understand that there is 4 inches of snow in spots 10 miles away from almost nothing.

Thats about it. Some people look at their clear culdesac and think the whole county is fine.
This short storm is sporadic.
Fairfax is from Clifton to Lorton to Mount Vernon to McLean to Greatfalls

Anonymous wrote:Some schools have no power.

Then those schools can be closed. There is precedent for that in the past from 2018. The 2 dozen or so schools that were without power were closed and everything else was open.

Some schools have no power.

People are looking for plows for this?

i hope they go back tomorrow or next week

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Anonymous wrote:The outrage about the closure is insane.
Went home from work last night and glad I safely home, drove 20 mph along the way. The roads is yucky and some spots are slick.
And how all these people think it’s magically gone this morning and kids and school busses should just do their “routine”.

I just drove and it’s completely fine! By 9 am it’ll be even better. I fully support closing when it’s unsafe and rarely gripe about a closure but this one is overkill.

Well, it's already done. So make the best of it.

Girl hush, I don’t need the patronizing. I’m a teacher whose kids can’t get any momentum going in their learning. The writing SOL is in 2 weeks and we’re losing time to prepare and remediate. The WIDA test is a bear to schedule for our 700 students and is impacted by this. I understand when bad weather necessitates a day off but this one was called early and we could’ve waited til 5 am and just called a delay.

I’m going to shovel our driveway and sidewalk soon, but the roads are a mess. I’d post a pic if I could, but the road probably has 2” of loose snow that has been churned up with tire tracks. No plow.

I shoveled last night around 8:30 and it was very wet even then. I was shoveling a layer of snow over a layer of water. Very easy to just push out of the way onto my front lawn. And we haven’t seen a snow plow yet but it seems that the street is just wet. They could have just stuck with the delay. I’m surprised after the early season delays vs. closures, which were the right calls then. It really seemed like they were going to get away from closing at the drop of a hat …

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Anonymous wrote:The outrage about the closure is insane.
Went home from work last night and glad I safely home, drove 20 mph along the way. The roads is yucky and some spots are slick.
And how all these people think it’s magically gone this morning and kids and school busses should just do their “routine”.

I just drove and it’s completely fine! By 9 am it’ll be even better. I fully support closing when it’s unsafe and rarely gripe about a closure but this one is overkill.

Well, it's already done. So make the best of it.

Here in Annandale, my driveway and sidewalks are clear without having been shoveled. There is a thin layer of slush on the sides of the roads, where cars park, the middle is clear. I can tell that it is slush because someone walked their dog by and his paw prints went down to the asphalt.

FCPS screwed this one up. No reason to have announced last night. A 2 hour delay was sufficient.

Anonymous wrote:I've been out and back already in western Fairfax County. The roads are totally fine.

The snow is not in western Fairfax. I swear people can’t understand that there is 4 inches of snow in spots 10 miles away from almost nothing.

I've been out and back already in western Fairfax County. The roads are totally fine.

Anonymous wrote:The outrage about the closure is insane.
Went home from work last night and glad I safely home, drove 20 mph along the way. The roads is yucky and some spots are slick.
And how all these people think it’s magically gone this morning and kids and school busses should just do their “routine”.

Good day to bake cookies!