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

The schools absolutely do not. They should have closed them.

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Anonymous wrote:Downtown parent here, more annoyed that the sidewalks still aren't shoveled. It's tough for my kid to walk the blocks needed to the metro on un-shoveled walks. As long as we have our pitchforks and touches out, can we go after those who don't shovel?

Isn't the requirement to shovel within 2 hours of the snow stopping? I may be wrong. It is still snowing, so people are waiting to do it all at once.

Yeah, I actually went out and shoveled at 7 am in case anyone was going to use the sidewalk. But, it's completely buried again and you can't even tell I shoveled.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Well, ward 4 is Muriel's ward--at least you're seeing plow trucks, we got nothing.

Nothing at all in our neighborhood. Ward 3

My section of Ward 6 got a nice email from Charles Allen that Muriel will be "checking on us soon"

Anonymous wrote:Downtown parent here, more annoyed that the sidewalks still aren't shoveled. It's tough for my kid to walk the blocks needed to the metro on un-shoveled walks. As long as we have our pitchforks and touches out, can we go after those who don't shovel?

Isn't the requirement to shovel within 2 hours of the snow stopping? I may be wrong. It is still snowing, so people are waiting to do it all at once.

Anonymous wrote:Roads can't be plowed and salted with bumper to bumper traffic. And to the New Yorker, DC is full of people from all over, including NY. The problem is the poor road conditions. New England has an arsenal of snow plows, salt, and experience. DC does not.

I agree with you 100% that the road conditions are the problem. But I've been here 6 years. At least 5 of those we have had to have this same discussion. Why can't DC get with the program? And if they are making the conscious decision not to invest in road treatment, then they need to be upfront about that and take the losses by closing down at the hint of a storm, and just tell the haters of that policy to suck it. Instead they seem to try to appease everyone by doing nothing!

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Anonymous wrote: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.

As of an hour ago when I was commuting to work downtown was not plowed.

I live downtown, we were plowed once at 6:30 and haven't seen a plow since. The streets are recovered.

Downtown parent here, more annoyed that the sidewalks still aren't shoveled. It's tough for my kid to walk the blocks needed to the metro on un-shoveled walks. As long as we have our pitchforks and touches out, can we go after those who don't shovel?

Anonymous wrote:Roads can't be plowed and salted with bumper to bumper traffic. And to the New Yorker, DC is full of people from all over, including NY. The problem is the poor road conditions. New England has an arsenal of snow plows, salt, and experience. DC does not.

I was on the road from 7:30 to 8:30 and there was barely any traffic.

Anonymous wrote: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.

As of an hour ago when I was commuting to work downtown was not plowed.

Anonymous wrote:People get over yourselves. There's an inch of snow on the ground. We are not in a blizzard.

Don't need a blizzard to have dangerous commuting conditions. Over 2.5 inches accumulated on our school sidewalks in NWDC.

Anonymous wrote:People get over yourselves. There's an inch of snow on the ground. We are not in a blizzard.

Where do you live that there's only one inch?

Anonymous wrote:Roads can't be plowed and salted with bumper to bumper traffic. And to the New Yorker, DC is full of people from all over, including NY. The problem is the poor road conditions. New England has an arsenal of snow plows, salt, and experience. DC does not.

No, the problem is that our lemon of a Mayor wasn't prepared in advance. She's a loser. January 6th, and she's already managed to f*ck up.

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

?? Where did you get this? DCPS makes its own call. And itafe the right one. There is an inch of snow. Deal. If you think that, as one poster put it, you are risking "life and limb" to get your kids to school, keep them home--no reason the rest of us should have to keep our kids home.

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Anonymous wrote:The most irritating this about this, is that next time it even hints - she'll close and there won't be sh--. DC either needs to get it's act together with the road clearing. They shouldn't cancel school for this, but it's less of a DCPS problem than a DPW problem.

+100. DPW is exacerbating the danger with its slow response to the snow on major streets. I live off Pennsylvania Ave. near Eastern Market and didn't see any plows or salt trucks by 8:30.

I agree with Jeff that Kaya would have needed to make an early call, and at 4 am, there was snow on the ground but little falling, and no snow blowing around like it is now.

Kaya should have known that she couldn't rely on Muriel.

Roads can't be plowed and salted with bumper to bumper traffic. And to the New Yorker, DC is full of people from all over, including NY. The problem is the poor road conditions. New England has an arsenal of snow plows, salt, and experience. DC does not.