Tried to drop off kid at charter school, stuck in traffic for an hour, turned around to go home.

My street in upper ward 4 has always been plowed early and often. I just now saw the first one go by. It's definitely a different response for this storm.

I am surprised by the lack of attention to our roads by DPW. In years past, it seemed like the plows were deployed as soon as the first flakes fell. By 8:30 this morning no one had even touched Reno Road. Yikes.

Agreed Muriel and Kaya messed up their opening salvo as the new dream team. It was thick at 6 and no end in sight. It was no surprise it was happening all morning, last evening they were predicting 1+ in DC and up to 3 possible not ending till noon. 4 am is a ridiculous deadline if it's for real.

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have heard nor seen nary a salt truck. Muriel, your snow game is weak.

A salt truck just came down my street. It had a plow, but the plow was up. It did appear to be spreading salt at least.

I am the last person to defend Kaya Henderson, but she would have had to announce a delay very early and earlier only a dusting of snow was expected. Her mistake was trusting the forecasts. If there is anyone we should pillory, it is weather forecasters.

Not on Kaya, but it is completely inexcusable that the roads are not being plowed. All of upper NW has more than 2 inches and not a single road -- not Mass Ave., not Connecticut -- has seen a plow.

i find shutting down schools for a little bit of snow comical. I grew up in NYC where even today only several feet or a Sandy can shut down schools.

I actually think the real reason you have to shut down schools in the DC Metro area is because of all of the terrible drivers. Where do these people come from????!!!!

Since DCPS is where most DC kids get fed and taken care of they are usually the last to delay or cloth

We were walking or taking the metro this would be fine. But I drive from Perwoth, first dropping my younger son in Takoma Park and then driving back downtown. I got stuck on a small hill on the way to Takoma Park and thercvpthe road was blocked with the cars spinning out and not able to get up the hill - no fun at all. I left my older son at my mom's rather than continue onto ITS. If DC were only the downtown area it would be no biggie, but roads are super bad even if the amount of snow isn't that much.

I heard WUSA calling for at least 2" inches and extremely frigid temps between 4AM and 11AM. That's what we're getting. Right through the morning rush hour. Topper Shutt called it.

PG and Montgomery were already delayed well before any students were on the way to school and closed before the delay would have been up. At 5:30am I looked out my window in NW and saw cars slipping and sliding and a good amount of snow cover. There is no reason that a call could not have been made at that time to at least delay; in order to get a better gauge on where things were going. Then when it got to this point they could have closed.

Point blank they dropped the ball; no room for excuses. Let's see what they'll do for tomorrow when the temperature will be much lower and the snow is forecast to impact the afternoon/evening commute.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here we go again...

It's an inch same crap will be on the ground at 10am than it is now.

Huh? This doesn't even make sense. You from DC?

Not PP, but it's tiny amount of snow. Deal.

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have heard nor seen nary a salt truck. Muriel, your snow game is weak.

A salt truck just came down my street. It had a plow, but the plow was up. It did appear to be spreading salt at least.

I am the last person to defend Kaya Henderson, but she would have had to announce a delay very early and earlier only a dusting of snow was expected. Her mistake was trusting the forecasts. If there is anyone we should pillory, it is weather forecasters.

We had a least an inch at 5:30 am and it was snowing heavy here in my part of DC. I think she made a bad call. They could have called it off. I also seem to recall many days where school was cancelled at about 6:30 am if I am not mistaken.

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have heard nor seen nary a salt truck. Muriel, your snow game is weak.

A salt truck just came down my street. It had a plow, but the plow was up. It did appear to be spreading salt at least.

I am the last person to defend Kaya Henderson, but she would have had to announce a delay very early and earlier only a dusting of snow was expected. Her mistake was trusting the forecasts. If there is anyone we should pillory, it is weather forecasters.

One of the perks of being Jeff? Just kidding…MoCo decided to close @8:00AM--I've been up since 6:30 watching this and I couldn't believe they didn't close--the forecast wasn't really wrong-- but it's the timing and recognizing that kids would be crossing busy streets on foot in this.

I'm with Jeff. The weather forecasters got this one wrong which is why counties like PG and Montgomery announced their closings when some kids were already at, or on their way to school. DC--generally speaking--never gets hit and the forecast was for less than an inch for us. You can't blame DCPS for this one. As of 5am they were still only calling for a small amount of snow.

No learning will take place today but the kids that made it to school will be fine upon dismissal since the snow is supposed to stop by noon...unless the forecasters got that one wrong too .

Anonymous wrote:DCPS goes by fed--but in this case, it's unsafe for kids to walk--bad call.

The thing that irritates me about this is that the bus we take with poor kids from the public housing is always almost empty on days like this and on any other day that seems like a good reason to miss such as rain, etc. Today the bus was almost empty and was slipping a little here and there. I think DCPS mad a bad call in not cancelling or delaying. Their decision should be based on weather alone especially since there are tons of other social safety nets for poor folks who need food in DC. I wonder what the attendance is like in the poorer sections of town. I am betting that not many kids at all showed up today.