Anonymous wrote:The roads are fine. School should have been open today.

Yawn.

We could have gotten our kid to school this morning with a 2 hour delay. I'm fine that they were closed instead but in retrospect a delay would have been fine and then at least fewer snow days on the calendar.

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Anonymous wrote:The roads are fine. School should have been open today.

Side roads in DC were NOT fine at 10am when I went in to work. Two hour delay today would not have been enough.

The named streets in Tenleytown seemed driveable this am, as long as no one needed to pass another car going the opposite way. Numbered streets were a spin of the roulette wheel.

ITDS has a half day tomorrow and releases at 12:00. They have confirmed they will still have a half day even if there is a delay. I am just not taking my kid in for school from 10:30-12:00 though as that is silly.

My kids are stir crazy at this point. I really hope they get a full day of school tomorrow.

Anonymous wrote:The roads are fine. School should have been open today.

Side roads in DC were NOT fine at 10am when I went in to work. Two hour delay today would not have been enough.

The roads are fine. School should have been open today.

Roads are looking better - I'm guessing a 2 hour delay tomorrow

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MCPS, which is closed today, announced meal distributions today for students at a dozen school locations across MoCo.

Does DCPS do that? It could be a way of closing schools while still feeding kids.

DCPS is usually good about this but I haven't seen any announcements about it this week. And we attend a Title 1 school with a high FARMS populations so I feel like if it was happening we would have heard.

Anonymous wrote:Silly to have closed the government and school. If you’re a Fed, this week is like the pandemic all over again - expected to work, all sorts of New Year kick off meetings, but shut for three days this week. We are barely holding on with school and daycare closed.

Well, gee, it looks fine out there for the occasional car or bus that goes by. Why wouldn't it work just as well for thousands of cars, ebikes, pedestrians, and scooters filling the streets and sidewalks?

MCPS, which is closed today, announced meal distributions today for students at a dozen school locations across MoCo.

Does DCPS do that? It could be a way of closing schools while still feeding kids.

Agreed that we are likely to have a 2-hour delay tomorrow.

Which I will for once be grateful for as I do actually think 2 hours is about what we need -- it's going to be harder than usual to get kids out of bed and it will take longer to get kids ready since we'll really need to bundle up and then the commute will take longer.

The real question is whether aftercare will be running on Wednesday. 2 hour delay plus no aftercare is always a huge pain.

Anonymous wrote:Too soon to start the January 9 thread? I predict two hour delay

Oops I mean January 8!

Too soon to start the January 9 thread? I predict two hour delay

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Anonymous wrote:Why would they close? The roads are getting plowed

Seriously? Side streets not getting plowed. Refreezing overnight.

I live off an arterial street and it is barely plowed

Just curious..did you stay in your house all day? Everyone I know saying things should be closed has dug out their car, shopped, gone sledding at schools in MD, etc. It's clear people can get around..they just don't want to.

We left our house to sled in our neighborhood in NW DC. I’m a teacher and no way could I have driven to work. My road is not paved, the roads around me haven’t been paved. I guess I could walk to the metro and then walk from the metro to school but that would take me an hour and a half. And the sidewalks are just getting shoveled this morning.