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No Reason for 2-hour Delay Today 1-9-15
Posted by:
Fairfax Bob
()
Date: January 09, 2015 08:19AM
Got up at 6am, temp was 25 degrees. That's a normal low temp for January. No reason to delay school 2 hours. FCPS is still all jittery from being traumatized Tuesday morning by their idiotic decision to open on time. Besides Monday, FCPS students have not a "normal" school day since December 18.
December 19 = 2 hour early release
December 20 - January 4 = Winter Break
January 5 - One normal day!
January 6 - Snowstorm fiasco.
January 7 thru 9 - Closed or delayed each day
December 19 = 2 hour early release
December 20 - January 4 = Winter Break
January 5 - One normal day!
January 6 - Snowstorm fiasco.
January 7 thru 9 - Closed or delayed each day
Re: No Reason for 2-hour Delay Today 1-9-15
Posted by:
Pffft...
()
Date: January 09, 2015 08:39AM
Fairfax Bob Wrote:
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> Got up at 6am, temp was 25 degrees. That's a
> normal low temp for January. No reason to delay
> school 2 hours. FCPS is still all jittery from
> being traumatized Tuesday morning by their idiotic
> decision to open on time. Besides Monday, FCPS
> students have not a "normal" school day since
> December 18.
>
> December 19 = 2 hour early release
> December 20 - January 4 = Winter Break
> January 5 - One normal day!
> January 6 - Snowstorm fiasco.
> January 7 thru 9 - Closed or delayed each day
It's a shame that your were never able to graduate from any FCPS or other school. UPS stands for more than just a package delivery company.
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> Got up at 6am, temp was 25 degrees. That's a
> normal low temp for January. No reason to delay
> school 2 hours. FCPS is still all jittery from
> being traumatized Tuesday morning by their idiotic
> decision to open on time. Besides Monday, FCPS
> students have not a "normal" school day since
> December 18.
>
> December 19 = 2 hour early release
> December 20 - January 4 = Winter Break
> January 5 - One normal day!
> January 6 - Snowstorm fiasco.
> January 7 thru 9 - Closed or delayed each day
It's a shame that your were never able to graduate from any FCPS or other school. UPS stands for more than just a package delivery company.
Re: No Reason for 2-hour Delay Today 1-9-15
Posted by:
South Jersey
()
Date: January 09, 2015 08:43AM
It's snowing here in NJ today, but we're only getting 1 inch at most. Schools are on their regular schedule; you southerners can't handle snow for shit.
Re: No Reason for 2-hour Delay Today 1-9-15
Posted by:
The steppes of South Jersey...
()
Date: January 09, 2015 08:54AM
South Jersey Wrote:
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> It's snowing here in NJ today, but we're only
> getting 1 inch at most. Schools are on their
> regular schedule; you southerners can't handle
> snow for shit.
Nobody actually lives in South Jersey and there is no place to go anyway. It's a bunch of sand and scrub pines. Nomadic tribes would have torched the place and moved on the same week they got there. But not because of snow. South Jersey doesn't get any snow. North Jersey does. You know -- where all the mountains and people are?
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> It's snowing here in NJ today, but we're only
> getting 1 inch at most. Schools are on their
> regular schedule; you southerners can't handle
> snow for shit.
Nobody actually lives in South Jersey and there is no place to go anyway. It's a bunch of sand and scrub pines. Nomadic tribes would have torched the place and moved on the same week they got there. But not because of snow. South Jersey doesn't get any snow. North Jersey does. You know -- where all the mountains and people are?
Re: No Reason for 2-hour Delay Today 1-9-15
Posted by:
whinerstopsy
()
Date: January 09, 2015 09:01AM
Please do your own job and give it a rest. We have 12 built in days over what is required by state law so just give it a rest or go to school board meetings and tell them maybe the will hire you
Re: No Reason for 2-hour Delay Today 1-9-15
Posted by:
Abraham Incognito
()
Date: January 09, 2015 01:11PM
Fairfax Bob Wrote:
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> Got up at 6am, temp was 25 degrees. That's a
> normal low temp for January. No reason to delay
> school 2 hours. FCPS is still all jittery from
> being traumatized Tuesday morning by their idiotic
> decision to open on time. Besides Monday, FCPS
> students have not a "normal" school day since
> December 18.
>
> December 19 = 2 hour early release
> December 20 - January 4 = Winter Break
> January 5 - One normal day!
> January 6 - Snowstorm fiasco.
> January 7 thru 9 - Closed or delayed each day
Good recap.
It is totally ridiculous that the sheeple around here have a panic attack at just the mention of snow or below freezing temps. Thank God we didnt have these types of people 250 years ago or this country would have never become what it is (or used to be until recently).
Nothing but pussies and chickens.
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> Got up at 6am, temp was 25 degrees. That's a
> normal low temp for January. No reason to delay
> school 2 hours. FCPS is still all jittery from
> being traumatized Tuesday morning by their idiotic
> decision to open on time. Besides Monday, FCPS
> students have not a "normal" school day since
> December 18.
>
> December 19 = 2 hour early release
> December 20 - January 4 = Winter Break
> January 5 - One normal day!
> January 6 - Snowstorm fiasco.
> January 7 thru 9 - Closed or delayed each day
Good recap.
It is totally ridiculous that the sheeple around here have a panic attack at just the mention of snow or below freezing temps. Thank God we didnt have these types of people 250 years ago or this country would have never become what it is (or used to be until recently).
Nothing but pussies and chickens.
Re: No Reason for 2-hour Delay Today 1-9-15
Posted by:
Closed for Sure
()
Date: January 09, 2015 01:38PM
They should of just closed the schooled. It was below 30 degrees!
Re: No Reason for 2-hour Delay Today 1-9-15
Posted by:
YveYd
()
Date: January 11, 2015 03:32PM
Fairfax Bob Wrote:
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> Got up at 6am, temp was 25 degrees. That's a
> normal low temp for January. No reason to delay
> school 2 hours. FCPS is still all jittery from
> being traumatized Tuesday morning by their idiotic
> decision to open on time. Besides Monday, FCPS
> students have not a "normal" school day since
> December 18.
>
> December 19 = 2 hour early release
> December 20 - January 4 = Winter Break
> January 5 - One normal day!
> January 6 - Snowstorm fiasco.
> January 7 thru 9 - Closed or delayed each day
Quick google search for "school bus engine heater" shows parts are a few hundred dollars - maybe. Installed, for 1000 buses in the fleet would be at most $1M. Maybe another $1M to equip the maintenance trucks with generators to go out to the remote locations to plug in and start the buses that won't start. Just doesn't seem like that hard a problem to solve.
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> Got up at 6am, temp was 25 degrees. That's a
> normal low temp for January. No reason to delay
> school 2 hours. FCPS is still all jittery from
> being traumatized Tuesday morning by their idiotic
> decision to open on time. Besides Monday, FCPS
> students have not a "normal" school day since
> December 18.
>
> December 19 = 2 hour early release
> December 20 - January 4 = Winter Break
> January 5 - One normal day!
> January 6 - Snowstorm fiasco.
> January 7 thru 9 - Closed or delayed each day
Quick google search for "school bus engine heater" shows parts are a few hundred dollars - maybe. Installed, for 1000 buses in the fleet would be at most $1M. Maybe another $1M to equip the maintenance trucks with generators to go out to the remote locations to plug in and start the buses that won't start. Just doesn't seem like that hard a problem to solve.
Re: No Reason for 2-hour Delay Today 1-9-15
Posted by:
bds
()
Date: January 11, 2015 04:47PM
YveYd Wrote:
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> Fairfax Bob Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Got up at 6am, temp was 25 degrees. That's a
> > normal low temp for January. No reason to delay
> > school 2 hours. FCPS is still all jittery from
> > being traumatized Tuesday morning by their
> idiotic
> > decision to open on time. Besides Monday, FCPS
> > students have not a "normal" school day since
> > December 18.
> >
> > December 19 = 2 hour early release
> > December 20 - January 4 = Winter Break
> > January 5 - One normal day!
> > January 6 - Snowstorm fiasco.
> > January 7 thru 9 - Closed or delayed each day
>
> Quick google search for "school bus engine heater"
> shows parts are a few hundred dollars - maybe.
> Installed, for 1000 buses in the fleet would be at
> most $1M. Maybe another $1M to equip the
> maintenance trucks with generators to go out to
> the remote locations to plug in and start the
> buses that won't start. Just doesn't seem like
> that hard a problem to solve.
Where have you been? It has been correctly noted umpteen times that all FCPS buses ARE equipped with engine block heaters. Almost all buses that are plugged in to an electrical outlet do start in very cold weather. It's the half (or more) of the fleet that are parked at places that do not have electrical outlets that are the problem.
Maintenance trucks do have generators. Block heaters must be plugged in overnight to be effective. If a maintenance truck pulled up in the morning and plugged an ice cold bus engine into it's generator, it would be hours before it would make any difference. The generators are mainly for producing 12 volt DC power to jump a bus with low or dead batteries.
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> Fairfax Bob Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Got up at 6am, temp was 25 degrees. That's a
> > normal low temp for January. No reason to delay
> > school 2 hours. FCPS is still all jittery from
> > being traumatized Tuesday morning by their
> idiotic
> > decision to open on time. Besides Monday, FCPS
> > students have not a "normal" school day since
> > December 18.
> >
> > December 19 = 2 hour early release
> > December 20 - January 4 = Winter Break
> > January 5 - One normal day!
> > January 6 - Snowstorm fiasco.
> > January 7 thru 9 - Closed or delayed each day
>
> Quick google search for "school bus engine heater"
> shows parts are a few hundred dollars - maybe.
> Installed, for 1000 buses in the fleet would be at
> most $1M. Maybe another $1M to equip the
> maintenance trucks with generators to go out to
> the remote locations to plug in and start the
> buses that won't start. Just doesn't seem like
> that hard a problem to solve.
Where have you been? It has been correctly noted umpteen times that all FCPS buses ARE equipped with engine block heaters. Almost all buses that are plugged in to an electrical outlet do start in very cold weather. It's the half (or more) of the fleet that are parked at places that do not have electrical outlets that are the problem.
Maintenance trucks do have generators. Block heaters must be plugged in overnight to be effective. If a maintenance truck pulled up in the morning and plugged an ice cold bus engine into it's generator, it would be hours before it would make any difference. The generators are mainly for producing 12 volt DC power to jump a bus with low or dead batteries.
Re: No Reason for 2-hour Delay Today 1-9-15
Posted by:
upstate trecker
()
Date: January 11, 2015 04:59PM
bds Wrote:
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> YveYd Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Fairfax Bob Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Got up at 6am, temp was 25 degrees. That's a
> > > normal low temp for January. No reason to
> delay
> > > school 2 hours. FCPS is still all jittery
> from
> > > being traumatized Tuesday morning by their
> > idiotic
> > > decision to open on time. Besides Monday,
> FCPS
> > > students have not a "normal" school day since
> > > December 18.
> > >
> > > December 19 = 2 hour early release
> > > December 20 - January 4 = Winter Break
> > > January 5 - One normal day!
> > > January 6 - Snowstorm fiasco.
> > > January 7 thru 9 - Closed or delayed each day
> >
> > Quick google search for "school bus engine
> heater"
> > shows parts are a few hundred dollars - maybe.
> > Installed, for 1000 buses in the fleet would be
> at
> > most $1M. Maybe another $1M to equip the
> > maintenance trucks with generators to go out to
> > the remote locations to plug in and start the
> > buses that won't start. Just doesn't seem like
> > that hard a problem to solve.
>
> Where have you been? It has been correctly noted
> umpteen times that all FCPS buses ARE equipped
> with engine block heaters. Almost all buses that
> are plugged in to an electrical outlet do start in
> very cold weather. It's the half (or more) of the
> fleet that are parked at places that do not have
> electrical outlets that are the problem.
>
> Maintenance trucks do have generators. Block
> heaters must be plugged in overnight to be
> effective. If a maintenance truck pulled up in
> the morning and plugged an ice cold bus engine
> into it's generator, it would be hours before it
> would make any difference. The generators are
> mainly for producing 12 volt DC power to jump a
> bus with low or dead batteries.
Way up north where I am from we have lots of gasoline engine buses. That solves some problems but costs more to run. Remember that publicly owned vehicles burn untaxed fuel which is much cheaper than the fuel that we buy. They also make a device for diesel and gasoline engines that automatically starts the engine periodically in very cold weather.
All in all it makes no sense for Fairfax to anything about the buses as it is a rare instance where it is a problem.
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> YveYd Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Fairfax Bob Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Got up at 6am, temp was 25 degrees. That's a
> > > normal low temp for January. No reason to
> delay
> > > school 2 hours. FCPS is still all jittery
> from
> > > being traumatized Tuesday morning by their
> > idiotic
> > > decision to open on time. Besides Monday,
> FCPS
> > > students have not a "normal" school day since
> > > December 18.
> > >
> > > December 19 = 2 hour early release
> > > December 20 - January 4 = Winter Break
> > > January 5 - One normal day!
> > > January 6 - Snowstorm fiasco.
> > > January 7 thru 9 - Closed or delayed each day
> >
> > Quick google search for "school bus engine
> heater"
> > shows parts are a few hundred dollars - maybe.
> > Installed, for 1000 buses in the fleet would be
> at
> > most $1M. Maybe another $1M to equip the
> > maintenance trucks with generators to go out to
> > the remote locations to plug in and start the
> > buses that won't start. Just doesn't seem like
> > that hard a problem to solve.
>
> Where have you been? It has been correctly noted
> umpteen times that all FCPS buses ARE equipped
> with engine block heaters. Almost all buses that
> are plugged in to an electrical outlet do start in
> very cold weather. It's the half (or more) of the
> fleet that are parked at places that do not have
> electrical outlets that are the problem.
>
> Maintenance trucks do have generators. Block
> heaters must be plugged in overnight to be
> effective. If a maintenance truck pulled up in
> the morning and plugged an ice cold bus engine
> into it's generator, it would be hours before it
> would make any difference. The generators are
> mainly for producing 12 volt DC power to jump a
> bus with low or dead batteries.
Way up north where I am from we have lots of gasoline engine buses. That solves some problems but costs more to run. Remember that publicly owned vehicles burn untaxed fuel which is much cheaper than the fuel that we buy. They also make a device for diesel and gasoline engines that automatically starts the engine periodically in very cold weather.
All in all it makes no sense for Fairfax to anything about the buses as it is a rare instance where it is a problem.
Re: No Reason for 2-hour Delay Today 1-9-15
Posted by:
Greybeard
()
Date: January 11, 2015 07:23PM
upstate trecker Wrote:
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> Way up north where I am from we have lots of
> gasoline engine buses. That solves some problems
> but costs more to run. Remember that publicly
> owned vehicles burn untaxed fuel which is much
> cheaper than the fuel that we buy. They also make
> a device for diesel and gasoline engines that
> automatically starts the engine periodically in
> very cold weather.
> All in all it makes no sense for Fairfax to do
> anything about the buses as it is a rare instance
> where it is a problem.
This. Folks are whingeing about what's basically a non-problem. Really pretty funny.
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> Way up north where I am from we have lots of
> gasoline engine buses. That solves some problems
> but costs more to run. Remember that publicly
> owned vehicles burn untaxed fuel which is much
> cheaper than the fuel that we buy. They also make
> a device for diesel and gasoline engines that
> automatically starts the engine periodically in
> very cold weather.
> All in all it makes no sense for Fairfax to do
> anything about the buses as it is a rare instance
> where it is a problem.
This. Folks are whingeing about what's basically a non-problem. Really pretty funny.
Re: No Reason for 2-hour Delay Today 1-9-15
Posted by:
Say wut?
()
Date: January 11, 2015 07:28PM
whingeing?
WTF is whingeing?
WTF is whingeing?
Re: No Reason for 2-hour Delay Today 1-9-15
Posted by:
Greybeard
()
Date: January 11, 2015 07:35PM
Say wut? Wrote:
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> whingeing?
>
> WTF is whingeing?
If only there was some way to look things up using a computer. It would make learning so much easier. Naw, that'd never work...what am I thinking??!?
(Hmm...references seem to prefer "whinging". The Brits I picked it up from spelled it with the "e". Go figure...why would THEY know English?!)
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> whingeing?
>
> WTF is whingeing?
If only there was some way to look things up using a computer. It would make learning so much easier. Naw, that'd never work...what am I thinking??!?
(Hmm...references seem to prefer "whinging". The Brits I picked it up from spelled it with the "e". Go figure...why would THEY know English?!)