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Anonymous wrote:I find it impossible to believe there are still streets that are not drivable. There has to be tire paths you can drive on by now, that you can access with a little shoveling of the path out of your driveway. Trucks and SUVs are just driving wherever they want.

There is no point trying to reason with them. Most of the posters on this thread want schools closed until the last of the snow melts.

Our street has seen two plows come through (NW DC) over the entire storm. Most folks do not have driveways, if they do they are accessible from the alley. It took three days to dig out one car on the street and the alley hasn’t had a plow come through nor will it ever. I have a car that is low to the ground and not 4 wheel drive as do most of my neighbors. What about this is so difficult to understand. We are not within walking distance of school.

I mean, honestly how is this not your fault? Have you never seen snow in your life?

My street had one plow come through and we are fine.

You need to invest in solutions like a car that can handle snow. Professional snow removal or a snowblower. Or at the very least learn how to use a shovel.

Neither a snowblower nor a shovel works on this stuff. It's blocks of ice on top of compacted snow.

People need to figure out a way to get themselves out but those that didn't do it themselves need to STFU because this wasn't normal snow.

I am shocked that our private was open today given the temps and road conditions, but…

You should have been keeping up with the shoveling early on as everyone recommended. If you waited until it became blocks of ice that’s on you.

Screw off.

Ice is heavy. Not everyone can keep shoveling.

Roads are still blocked in areas.

No place for kids to wait for buses. Buses getting stuck all over the county.

If you didn't want to take care of your kids you should not have had them.

I am tired of the BS on these threads complaining about schools not opening. It is called ice get a god dammed dictionary already and shut the hell up. Ice is not snow.... For the MAGA morons or the Mom4Liberty BS all over this thread. We all know that is who is complaining.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it impossible to believe there are still streets that are not drivable. There has to be tire paths you can drive on by now, that you can access with a little shoveling of the path out of your driveway. Trucks and SUVs are just driving wherever they want.

There is no point trying to reason with them. Most of the posters on this thread want schools closed until the last of the snow melts.

Our street has seen two plows come through (NW DC) over the entire storm. Most folks do not have driveways, if they do they are accessible from the alley. It took three days to dig out one car on the street and the alley hasn’t had a plow come through nor will it ever. I have a car that is low to the ground and not 4 wheel drive as do most of my neighbors. What about this is so difficult to understand. We are not within walking distance of school.

I mean, honestly how is this not your fault? Have you never seen snow in your life?

My street had one plow come through and we are fine.

You need to invest in solutions like a car that can handle snow. Professional snow removal or a snowblower. Or at the very least learn how to use a shovel.

Neither a snowblower nor a shovel works on this stuff. It's blocks of ice on top of compacted snow.

People need to figure out a way to get themselves out but those that didn't do it themselves need to STFU because this wasn't normal snow.

I am shocked that our private was open today given the temps and road conditions, but…

You should have been keeping up with the shoveling early on as everyone recommended. If you waited until it became blocks of ice that’s on you.

I shoveled snow on Sunday, cleared the sidewalk on Monday and the car on Tuesday. Just because you paid someone doesn't mean you have any idea what the situation was like.

Temperatures haven't been above freezing yet

Anonymous wrote:Glad to see the general tone of thread has returned to sanity. Those that believe they are stuck forever can stay at home and those of us with a shovel and a bit of determination can get back to normal.

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Glad to see the general tone of thread has returned to sanity. Those that believe they are stuck forever can stay at home and those of us with a shovel and a bit of determination can get back to normal.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it impossible to believe there are still streets that are not drivable. There has to be tire paths you can drive on by now, that you can access with a little shoveling of the path out of your driveway. Trucks and SUVs are just driving wherever they want.

There is no point trying to reason with them. Most of the posters on this thread want schools closed until the last of the snow melts.

Our street has seen two plows come through (NW DC) over the entire storm. Most folks do not have driveways, if they do they are accessible from the alley. It took three days to dig out one car on the street and the alley hasn’t had a plow come through nor will it ever. I have a car that is low to the ground and not 4 wheel drive as do most of my neighbors. What about this is so difficult to understand. We are not within walking distance of school.

3 days to dig one car out? What are you using a child’s plastic sand shovel?

Did you do it? How old are you? Did the snow plow bury your car when it passed through? Are you in direct sunlight or does your side of the street never see sun until summer?

Your street’s been plowed? What are you complaining about?

So you didn’t do any snow removal yourself and your car isn’t parked on the street?

The helplessness!

We shoveled our sidewalks and helped neighbors shovel theirs. We dug out our two cars and our neighbors’ (two) cars. All including the snow/ice moved by the plow we were grateful to see Monday afternoon. Done by sunset Monday.

We all aspire to be as perfect as you. And who is this we? How many of you? Did you have to work on Monday? You are one nasty self righteous person. I bet your kids are dying to get back to school just to get away from you, I know I would be.

I never claimed to be perfect. I asked why the person whose street was plowed was still complaining when others haven’t been plowed out. They assumed I hadn’t done any snow removal myself. I stated what we (DH and I) had done.

Are you always this aggressive/defensive?

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Anonymous wrote:I find it impossible to believe there are still streets that are not drivable. There has to be tire paths you can drive on by now, that you can access with a little shoveling of the path out of your driveway. Trucks and SUVs are just driving wherever they want.

There is no point trying to reason with them. Most of the posters on this thread want schools closed until the last of the snow melts.

Our street has seen two plows come through (NW DC) over the entire storm. Most folks do not have driveways, if they do they are accessible from the alley. It took three days to dig out one car on the street and the alley hasn’t had a plow come through nor will it ever. I have a car that is low to the ground and not 4 wheel drive as do most of my neighbors. What about this is so difficult to understand. We are not within walking distance of school.

3 days to dig one car out? What are you using a child’s plastic sand shovel?

Did you do it? How old are you? Did the snow plow bury your car when it passed through? Are you in direct sunlight or does your side of the street never see sun until summer?

Your street’s been plowed? What are you complaining about?

So you didn’t do any snow removal yourself and your car isn’t parked on the street?

The helplessness!

We shoveled our sidewalks and helped neighbors shovel theirs. We dug out our two cars and our neighbors’ (two) cars. All including the snow/ice moved by the plow we were grateful to see Monday afternoon. Done by sunset Monday.

We all aspire to be as perfect as you. And who is this we? How many of you? Did you have to work on Monday? You are one nasty self righteous person. I bet your kids are dying to get back to school just to get away from you, I know I would be.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it impossible to believe there are still streets that are not drivable. There has to be tire paths you can drive on by now, that you can access with a little shoveling of the path out of your driveway. Trucks and SUVs are just driving wherever they want.

There is no point trying to reason with them. Most of the posters on this thread want schools closed until the last of the snow melts.

Our street has seen two plows come through (NW DC) over the entire storm. Most folks do not have driveways, if they do they are accessible from the alley. It took three days to dig out one car on the street and the alley hasn’t had a plow come through nor will it ever. I have a car that is low to the ground and not 4 wheel drive as do most of my neighbors. What about this is so difficult to understand. We are not within walking distance of school.

3 days to dig one car out? What are you using a child’s plastic sand shovel?

Did you do it? How old are you? Did the snow plow bury your car when it passed through? Are you in direct sunlight or does your side of the street never see sun until summer?

Your street’s been plowed? What are you complaining about?

So you didn’t do any snow removal yourself and your car isn’t parked on the street?

The helplessness!

We shoveled our sidewalks and helped neighbors shovel theirs. We dug out our two cars and our neighbors’ (two) cars. All including the snow/ice moved by the plow we were grateful to see Monday afternoon. Done by sunset Monday.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it impossible to believe there are still streets that are not drivable. There has to be tire paths you can drive on by now, that you can access with a little shoveling of the path out of your driveway. Trucks and SUVs are just driving wherever they want.

There is no point trying to reason with them. Most of the posters on this thread want schools closed until the last of the snow melts.

Our street has seen two plows come through (NW DC) over the entire storm. Most folks do not have driveways, if they do they are accessible from the alley. It took three days to dig out one car on the street and the alley hasn’t had a plow come through nor will it ever. I have a car that is low to the ground and not 4 wheel drive as do most of my neighbors. What about this is so difficult to understand. We are not within walking distance of school.

3 days to dig one car out? What are you using a child’s plastic sand shovel?

Did you do it? How old are you? Did the snow plow bury your car when it passed through? Are you in direct sunlight or does your side of the street never see sun until summer?

Your street’s been plowed? What are you complaining about?

Be nice to the “three days to dig out their car” poster. At least they eventually dug out it out, which beats many of the people in this thread.

I agree. It is hard without the right tools. I was observing people trying to do it with the plastic snow shovels which are only useful once you have broken up the ice with a metal shovel. I can see how it would take them days to get anywhere.

Are people really that foolish to not have a snow shovel with a metal blade? They might as well have no snow shovel at all.

FWIW--Our shovel with the metal blade was no match for the frozen ice-snow that we did not tackle right away/the plow deposited to block us in. We also have a metal gardening shovel so we were fine, but not everyone has garden tools.

The best for this is a flat metal blade--our neighbor cut the ice on his 100-foot driveway into squares and lifted it out quite efficiently yesterday. It was still super time-consuming for him, but he progressed a lot faster than I did with the curved blade.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it impossible to believe there are still streets that are not drivable. There has to be tire paths you can drive on by now, that you can access with a little shoveling of the path out of your driveway. Trucks and SUVs are just driving wherever they want.

There is no point trying to reason with them. Most of the posters on this thread want schools closed until the last of the snow melts.

Our street has seen two plows come through (NW DC) over the entire storm. Most folks do not have driveways, if they do they are accessible from the alley. It took three days to dig out one car on the street and the alley hasn’t had a plow come through nor will it ever. I have a car that is low to the ground and not 4 wheel drive as do most of my neighbors. What about this is so difficult to understand. We are not within walking distance of school.

3 days to dig one car out? What are you using a child’s plastic sand shovel?

Did you do it? How old are you? Did the snow plow bury your car when it passed through? Are you in direct sunlight or does your side of the street never see sun until summer?

Your street’s been plowed? What are you complaining about?

Be nice to the “three days to dig out their car” poster. At least they eventually dug out it out, which beats many of the people in this thread.

I agree. It is hard without the right tools. I was observing people trying to do it with the plastic snow shovels which are only useful once you have broken up the ice with a metal shovel. I can see how it would take them days to get anywhere.

Are people really that foolish to not have a snow shovel with a metal blade? They might as well have no snow shovel at all.

FWIW--Our shovel with the metal blade was no match for the frozen ice-snow that we did not tackle right away/the plow deposited to block us in. We also have a metal gardening shovel so we were fine, but not everyone has garden tools.

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Anonymous wrote:So for parents of kids who have been home all week, if Friday is a 2 hour delay are you even going to bother sending your kids? I’m not sure it’s worth the hassle. It’s not like they’re going to get anything done.

Yes, to interact in person with friends.

Invite a friend over or send her outside to play with them. Kids in my neighborhood are interacting in person while sledding. Easy.
Does she lose her socialization skills every weekend too?

You are grasping at straws. Getting back to the school routine and socializing there is nothing like slumming it with the neighborhood kids.

Thoughts and prayers for you come summer break!

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Anonymous wrote:I find it impossible to believe there are still streets that are not drivable. There has to be tire paths you can drive on by now, that you can access with a little shoveling of the path out of your driveway. Trucks and SUVs are just driving wherever they want.

There is no point trying to reason with them. Most of the posters on this thread want schools closed until the last of the snow melts.

Our street has seen two plows come through (NW DC) over the entire storm. Most folks do not have driveways, if they do they are accessible from the alley. It took three days to dig out one car on the street and the alley hasn’t had a plow come through nor will it ever. I have a car that is low to the ground and not 4 wheel drive as do most of my neighbors. What about this is so difficult to understand. We are not within walking distance of school.

I mean, honestly how is this not your fault? Have you never seen snow in your life?

My street had one plow come through and we are fine.

You need to invest in solutions like a car that can handle snow. Professional snow removal or a snowblower. Or at the very least learn how to use a shovel.

Neither a snowblower nor a shovel works on this stuff. It's blocks of ice on top of compacted snow.

People need to figure out a way to get themselves out but those that didn't do it themselves need to STFU because this wasn't normal snow.

I am shocked that our private was open today given the temps and road conditions, but…

You should have been keeping up with the shoveling early on as everyone recommended. If you waited until it became blocks of ice that’s on you.

Dropped my kids off at metro for school today. First time driving and was really surprised at how bad the road conditions still are, even around the city. Glad my kids can metro!

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Anonymous wrote:I find it impossible to believe there are still streets that are not drivable. There has to be tire paths you can drive on by now, that you can access with a little shoveling of the path out of your driveway. Trucks and SUVs are just driving wherever they want.

There is no point trying to reason with them. Most of the posters on this thread want schools closed until the last of the snow melts.

Our street has seen two plows come through (NW DC) over the entire storm. Most folks do not have driveways, if they do they are accessible from the alley. It took three days to dig out one car on the street and the alley hasn’t had a plow come through nor will it ever. I have a car that is low to the ground and not 4 wheel drive as do most of my neighbors. What about this is so difficult to understand. We are not within walking distance of school.

3 days to dig one car out? What are you using a child’s plastic sand shovel?

Did you do it? How old are you? Did the snow plow bury your car when it passed through? Are you in direct sunlight or does your side of the street never see sun until summer?

Your street’s been plowed? What are you complaining about?

Be nice to the “three days to dig out their car” poster. At least they eventually dug out it out, which beats many of the people in this thread.

I agree. It is hard without the right tools. I was observing people trying to do it with the plastic snow shovels which are only useful once you have broken up the ice with a metal shovel. I can see how it would take them days to get anywhere.

Are people really that foolish to not have a snow shovel with a metal blade? They might as well have no snow shovel at all.

The metal blade does not help you if most of it is plastic. You will break it eventually. Most people I have seen shoveling have this kind of shovel and they are fairly useless for the ice. They only work well for powder.

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Anonymous wrote:So for parents of kids who have been home all week, if Friday is a 2 hour delay are you even going to bother sending your kids? I’m not sure it’s worth the hassle. It’s not like they’re going to get anything done.

Yes, to interact in person with friends.

Invite a friend over or send her outside to play with them. Kids in my neighborhood are interacting in person while sledding. Easy.
Does she lose her socialization skills every weekend too?

You are grasping at straws. Getting back to the school routine and socializing there is nothing like slumming it with the neighborhood kids.

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Anonymous wrote:So for parents of kids who have been home all week, if Friday is a 2 hour delay are you even going to bother sending your kids? I’m not sure it’s worth the hassle. It’s not like they’re going to get anything done.

Yes, to interact in person with friends.

Invite a friend over or send her outside to play with them. Kids in my neighborhood are interacting in person while sledding. Easy.
Does she lose her socialization skills every weekend too?