Ice been up and down Viers Mill Road and Aspen Hill roads last week.

Some Montgomery County roads have "snow emergency route" signs which means "no parking" on snow days and people have been parking their cars on those streets. If they get damaged by the plows, fire trucks, or rescue trucks, there's no way to be compensated for the damages.

I think all the heritage Montgomery County employees retired and so now we have all new employees that never plowed snow before or any big snowfall. I think that's why the roads are messed up after the big snowfall we had.

Anonymous wrote:Of course Montgomery County's highest government expense is MCPS. It is smaller percentage of the county budget now compared to 20 or 30 years ago.

IDK about 30 years ago, but 20 years ago, it was 47.7% of the approved FY07 operating budget. This fiscal year, it is 47.1% of the approved FY26 operating budget. That's not a big difference. https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/OMB/Resources/Files/omb/pdfs/fy07/appr/highlights_psp.pdf