Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 07:08     Subject: APS VA Snow Day Projection
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:75% of our neighbors haven’t shoveled yet.


I’ve tried and there’s no breaking through the ice.


Sorry but this is ridiculous. Get out there with a sturdy garden type shovel and go at the hard packed snow and break it up. Then shovel. I am a 51 year old woman and did this just fine. If you are not able bodied, pay a teenage neighbor. Many are in my neighborhood and are available. Post on next door if you can’t find one.

It’s your responsibility. Deal with it.


Actually, if you are not able bodied, you have an exemption under Arlington’s ordinance and it is not your legal responsibility.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 06:00     Subject: APS VA Snow Day Projection
How old is that map… it still has the Salsa Room on Columbia Pike. It says my street is 1/2 plowed- then line half the size of the other lines. I can get out but it is icy.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 05:47     Subject: Re:APS VA Snow Day Projection
FYI - Arlington’s website indicates that the county manager has suspended enforcement of the snow removal ordinance due to weather conditions, but directs residents to do their best to keep sidewalks safe and accessible.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 22:34     Subject: APS VA Snow Day Projection
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:...but I do like Arlington's real-time plowing map. https://arlgis.arlingtonva.us/Apps/Snow/SnowActivityMap/#16/38.8784/-77.1426


It doesn’t match what I see out my window though. It says my street was plowed and treated but it’s still completely covered.


My street has seen no plow at all.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 22:34     Subject: APS VA Snow Day Projection
We did some ab testing at our house. Cleared the front walk (to house) at 9pm but the sidewalk was last cleared at 5. So this morning, the walk was a sheet of ice and so was the snow but DH could pick it up and move it like cubes for a igloo. So what did the kids do? Start making an igloo. While harder work, the sidewalk is clear and easy to walk on but we still don't have a perfect walk to the sidewalk from house. I think it was just a very hard storm to deal with. (hint,let's be nice)
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 21:10     Subject: APS VA Snow Day Projection
Anonymous wrote:...but I do like Arlington's real-time plowing map. https://arlgis.arlingtonva.us/Apps/Snow/SnowActivityMap/#16/38.8784/-77.1426


It doesn’t match what I see out my window though. It says my street was plowed and treated but it’s still completely covered.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 21:00     Subject: APS VA Snow Day Projection
...but I do like Arlington's real-time plowing map. https://arlgis.arlingtonva.us/Apps/Snow/SnowActivityMap/#16/38.8784/-77.1426
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 20:57     Subject: Re:APS VA Snow Day Projection
Our street is still a sledding hill. With ramps.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 20:42     Subject: APS VA Snow Day Projection
Anonymous wrote:The school across the street from us isn't plowed and the adjacent school sidewalks aren't either. I doubt they'll get to all of them tomorrow so plan on sitters for Wednesday as well.


That is odd- what school?! Our neighborhood street was plowed twice yesterday and today!
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 20:41     Subject: APS VA Snow Day Projection
The school across the street from us isn't plowed and the adjacent school sidewalks aren't either. I doubt they'll get to all of them tomorrow so plan on sitters for Wednesday as well.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 19:48     Subject: APS VA Snow Day Projection
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:75% of our neighbors haven’t shoveled yet.


I’ve tried and there’s no breaking through the ice.


Thats why you were supposed to do it multiple times yesterday. Lazy people.


I shoveled 3x yesterday and still woke up to a 2+ inch crust of ice across every surface.


I don't get this. We all live in the same small county. It stopped precipitating by 8pm last night. We all went out for one last shovel and today we have clear sidewalks and driveway. No ice.


How are you so special that you are the one house without ice?


No ice because the last shovel was after the precipitation stopped. Its not special, its common sense.


Good for you. You must have a smaller driveway than some of us, which is fine. We were too tired to go out in the dark, again, and couldn’t do it one more time. The entire family had been shoveling every 1-2 hours all day to try to keep up on it and now we are dealing with the ice and used real shovels all day today and barely made a dent. Whatever, we tried.


No, large steep driveway on a corner lot.


There you go, it’s a steep driveway so maybe all the sleet just rolled on down… you can’t relate to the rest of us
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 19:26     Subject: APS VA Snow Day Projection
Anonymous wrote:Shoveling early wasnt helpful this time. The spade crunching worked super well though!

Keep in mind that everyone has a driveway. There are a ton of us that are in apartments or street park and the roads are pretty bad. Some are cleaned. Most are not some are a combination of the two (partially scraped and now compacted ice) and a lot of us had our cars plowed in. It’s going to be different for everybody some commonality, but not everyone lives in the same circumstances.


Remember too our teachers often live outside of the county and they have their own families and challenges with digging out


Not everyone has a driveway….
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 19:23     Subject: APS VA Snow Day Projection
Shoveling early wasnt helpful this time. The spade crunching worked super well though!

Keep in mind that everyone has a driveway. There are a ton of us that are in apartments or street park and the roads are pretty bad. Some are cleaned. Most are not some are a combination of the two (partially scraped and now compacted ice) and a lot of us had our cars plowed in. It’s going to be different for everybody some commonality, but not everyone lives in the same circumstances.


Remember too our teachers often live outside of the county and they have their own families and challenges with digging out
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 18:54     Subject: APS VA Snow Day Projection
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:75% of our neighbors haven’t shoveled yet.


I’ve tried and there’s no breaking through the ice.


Thats why you were supposed to do it multiple times yesterday. Lazy people.


I shoveled 3x yesterday and still woke up to a 2+ inch crust of ice across every surface.


I don't get this. We all live in the same small county. It stopped precipitating by 8pm last night. We all went out for one last shovel and today we have clear sidewalks and driveway. No ice.


How are you so special that you are the one house without ice?


No ice here in 22207.


I cant tell if this is a play on words.....?


I think it is. We're in 22207 and it took us and everyone around us hours to hack through the ice.


No play on words. It was like a slushee from 7-11, so icy snow but not a block of ice.

But gov is closed again, which foretells a week of no school.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 17:46     Subject: APS VA Snow Day Projection
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:75% of our neighbors haven’t shoveled yet.


I’ve tried and there’s no breaking through the ice.


Thats why you were supposed to do it multiple times yesterday. Lazy people.


I shoveled 3x yesterday and still woke up to a 2+ inch crust of ice across every surface.


I don't get this. We all live in the same small county. It stopped precipitating by 8pm last night. We all went out for one last shovel and today we have clear sidewalks and driveway. No ice.


How are you so special that you are the one house without ice?


No ice here in 22207.


I cant tell if this is a play on words.....?


I think it is. We're in 22207 and it took us and everyone around us hours to hack through the ice.