Anonymous wrote:I have leave scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday already. Part of me wants to go in on Monday so I can meet my new students. Part of me says let the break ride.

Anonymous wrote:What are the chances of having school on Monday?

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Anonymous wrote:Depends if crews are clearing enough this weekend

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Anonymous wrote:Just drove by seven locks es and the student drop off lot is still untouched. Can other people report what they're seeing at their local schools here? Yesterday it mentioned only 30 percent of schools were done. Like WHAT?!

Rock Creek Forest parking lot is untouched and no work being done on a Friday afternoon.

I drove by Quince Orchard high school today and the sidewalk just near the school on QO Road was shoveled but the sidewalks leading up to the school was half done - it was patches of clear sidewalks and mounds of snow in between. I think Monday will definitely be a closure - the streets off of QO Road were like one lane roads with no sidewalk to see, so how can the walkers walk from a mile away? And assuming parents will drop off the kids it will be a mess in that parking lot.

If the sidewalk isn't shoveled, walk on top
of the snow where the sidewalk is. Leave extra time.

This is the county that said it would be too much of a liability risk to have 16-18 year old kids shovel school parking lots. You really think they are going to be ok with the liability and lawsuit potential of 10k kids from ages 6-18 walking to school in roads and on top of ice mounds?

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Anonymous wrote:Just drove by seven locks es and the student drop off lot is still untouched. Can other people report what they're seeing at their local schools here? Yesterday it mentioned only 30 percent of schools were done. Like WHAT?!

Rock Creek Forest parking lot is untouched and no work being done on a Friday afternoon.

I drove by Quince Orchard high school today and the sidewalk just near the school on QO Road was shoveled but the sidewalks leading up to the school was half done - it was patches of clear sidewalks and mounds of snow in between. I think Monday will definitely be a closure - the streets off of QO Road were like one lane roads with no sidewalk to see, so how can the walkers walk from a mile away? And assuming parents will drop off the kids it will be a mess in that parking lot.

If the sidewalk isn't shoveled, walk on top
of the snow where the sidewalk is. Leave extra time.

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Anonymous wrote:Just drove by seven locks es and the student drop off lot is still untouched. Can other people report what they're seeing at their local schools here? Yesterday it mentioned only 30 percent of schools were done. Like WHAT?!

Rock Creek Forest parking lot is untouched and no work being done on a Friday afternoon.

I drove by Quince Orchard high school today and the sidewalk just near the school on QO Road was shoveled but the sidewalks leading up to the school was half done - it was patches of clear sidewalks and mounds of snow in between. I think Monday will definitely be a closure - the streets off of QO Road were like one lane roads with no sidewalk to see, so how can the walkers walk from a mile away? And assuming parents will drop off the kids it will be a mess in that parking lot.

If the sidewalk isn't shoveled, walk on top
of the snow where the sidewalk is. Leave extra time.

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Anonymous wrote:This talk about being stir-crazy is amusing: it's only been a week. Hell, most of us lived through the pandemic and there were weeks or months where we barely went out or saw anyone. But then we're anti-social hermits, so that works for us 😏

Even as an antisocial hermit, the pandemic was horrible.

Plus, except for being short-term, this is harder for parents. PSince Tuesday, everyone else has been working basically like normal. Things haven't slowed down. Expectations haven't changed. While the pandemic didn't affect everyone equally, it did affect everyone. Here its basically just parents with kids-- particularly elementary and younger kids-- who have had to uniquely deal with this.

Not true.

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Anonymous wrote:Just drove by seven locks es and the student drop off lot is still untouched. Can other people report what they're seeing at their local schools here? Yesterday it mentioned only 30 percent of schools were done. Like WHAT?!

Rock Creek Forest parking lot is untouched and no work being done on a Friday afternoon.

I drove by Quince Orchard high school today and the sidewalk just near the school on QO Road was shoveled but the sidewalks leading up to the school was half done - it was patches of clear sidewalks and mounds of snow in between. I think Monday will definitely be a closure - the streets off of QO Road were like one lane roads with no sidewalk to see, so how can the walkers walk from a mile away? And assuming parents will drop off the kids it will be a mess in that parking lot.

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Anonymous wrote:This talk about being stir-crazy is amusing: it's only been a week. Hell, most of us lived through the pandemic and there were weeks or months where we barely went out or saw anyone. But then we're anti-social hermits, so that works for us 😏

Even as an antisocial hermit, the pandemic was horrible.

Plus, except for being short-term, this is harder for parents. PSince Tuesday, everyone else has been working basically like normal. Things haven't slowed down. Expectations haven't changed. While the pandemic didn't affect everyone equally, it did affect everyone. Here its basically just parents with kids-- particularly elementary and younger kids-- who have had to uniquely deal with this.

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Anonymous wrote:Just drove by seven locks es and the student drop off lot is still untouched. Can other people report what they're seeing at their local schools here? Yesterday it mentioned only 30 percent of schools were done. Like WHAT?!

Rock Creek Forest parking lot is untouched and no work being done on a Friday afternoon.

I drove by Quince Orchard high school today and the sidewalk just near the school on QO Road was shoveled but the sidewalks leading up to the school was half done - it was patches of clear sidewalks and mounds of snow in between. I think Monday will definitely be a closure - the streets off of QO Road were like one lane roads with no sidewalk to see, so how can the walkers walk from a mile away? And assuming parents will drop off the kids it will be a mess in that parking lot.

Buses are still covered in ice.

Probably. They don't take that long to clear. I can't imagine they would do much until the morning-of. I don't know how MCPS does it, but where I grew up, each driver cleared their own bus.

It should be easy to clear at this point. Once lifted away in one spot, large intact chunks will come off.

That's what happened with my car on Tuesday. Clearing the car off was much easier than everything else.

Clearing the top of the car, hood and trunk is easy. Digging out a car hemmed in with rock hard ice by plowing is very different.

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Anonymous wrote:Just drove by seven locks es and the student drop off lot is still untouched. Can other people report what they're seeing at their local schools here? Yesterday it mentioned only 30 percent of schools were done. Like WHAT?!

Rock Creek Forest parking lot is untouched and no work being done on a Friday afternoon.

I drove by Quince Orchard high school today and the sidewalk just near the school on QO Road was shoveled but the sidewalks leading up to the school was half done - it was patches of clear sidewalks and mounds of snow in between. I think Monday will definitely be a closure - the streets off of QO Road were like one lane roads with no sidewalk to see, so how can the walkers walk from a mile away? And assuming parents will drop off the kids it will be a mess in that parking lot.

Buses are still covered in ice.

Probably. They don't take that long to clear. I can't imagine they would do much until the morning-of. I don't know how MCPS does it, but where I grew up, each driver cleared their own bus.

It should be easy to clear at this point. Once lifted away in one spot, large intact chunks will come off.

That's what happened with my car on Tuesday. Clearing the car off was much easier than everything else.

Clearing the top of the car, hood and trunk is easy. Digging out a car hemmed in with rock hard ice by plowing is very different.