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FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: FCPS Screwed Up ()
Date: January 06, 2015 08:17AM

FCPS screwed up BIG TIME on not delaying by 2 hours this morning. They likely would have closed schools if they would have delayed like many other localities.

Not sure what Garza and company were thinking, they will be eating BIG TIME CROW on this one.

Buses stuck everywhere and a number of bus accidents, traffic not moving.

This is BAD and dangerous for the students, staff, parents and bus drivers.

Next cars will be running out of fuel because they cannot move.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: lulza ()
Date: January 06, 2015 08:29AM

wrecked bus in Falls church

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: kP49w ()
Date: January 06, 2015 08:32AM

FCPS Screwed Up Wrote:
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> FCPS screwed up BIG TIME on not delaying by 2
> hours this morning. They likely would have closed
> schools if they would have delayed like many other
> localities.
>
> Not sure what Garza and company were thinking,
> they will be eating BIG TIME CROW on this one.
>
> Buses stuck everywhere and a number of bus
> accidents, traffic not moving.
>
> This is BAD and dangerous for the students, staff,
> parents and bus drivers.
>
> Next cars will be running out of fuel because they
> cannot move.

If you think this is bad, wait until next year when the students with the longest commutes (high schoolers) will be moved into the middle of morning rush hour. My middle schooler has been on the bus 90 minutes now and is still a mile from school.

A little more snow and traffic here than Lubbock!

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: newgatedenizen ()
Date: January 06, 2015 08:33AM

A message from FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

The inclement weather may result in your child's bus being delayed this morning. Please be patient and safe if you are driving this morning.
----------------------

Ya think? This one is stuck on a hill in our neighborhood.
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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: CVbtb ()
Date: January 06, 2015 08:36AM

Waze view
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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: The sounds of silence ()
Date: January 06, 2015 08:38AM

Not a word on the FCPS home page. Great communication team! Maybe they are stuck in traffic.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Notmyfault ()
Date: January 06, 2015 08:43AM

Hey, FCPS assumes that VDOT will have some trucks out there treating the roads and getting plows out early. On a 20 mile drive on 123 and the FFX parkway I saw 1 (one) count 'em ONE truck out on the roads.

Quickest way to not being a popular governor is to screw up basic services. In his first real test McAuliffe failed miserably.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Tysons View ()
Date: January 06, 2015 08:44AM

View from Tysons @ 8 am
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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: VDOT Blew It ()
Date: January 06, 2015 08:53AM

I think VDOT blew it also. I have to assume that FCPS may follow VDOT's lead, but FPCS should understand or communicate with VDOT to know if VDOT will be dispatching plows and salt trucks. Not that salt would help much in these temps without sun.

If VDOT is not planning on dispatching plow and salt trucks, FCPS should delay by 2 hours to see how things pan out.

VDOT did understand this was coming and did a lot of pre-treating of many of the main roads yesterday, but it does not look like they mobilized the sub contractors in the plow trucks this morning?

These guys NEVER learn, if the storm is going to start just before or during the morning rush hour it ALWAYS turns out to be a disaster and we have total chaos and very dangerous road conditions.

History is repeating itself, we have had MANY early/mid morning storms hit with cold temps and it has ALWAYS been bad!

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Still Coming Down ()
Date: January 06, 2015 08:54AM

Was bad earlier, but it is still coming down and conditions are getting worse.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: First snow day ()
Date: January 06, 2015 08:56AM

Huh. Last year FCPS closed for snow days, people bitched about it. This year FCPS open for the first snow day, and they r still complaining?

WTF!!!!

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: student ()
Date: January 06, 2015 08:58AM

My bus never came!!!

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: FCPS - History of Fuck ups ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:00AM

FCPS made the exact same fuck up back in 2004. A simple 2 hour delay would have been the safe call. Always err on the side of safety for the students.

Fuck everyone else.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Crying Wolf ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:04AM

First snow day Wrote:
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> Huh. Last year FCPS closed for snow days, people
> bitched about it. This year FCPS open for the
> first snow day, and they r still complaining?
>
> WTF!!!!


Yeah, because FCPS, PWCS and others counties have cried wolf one too many times. CLosing school for some bullshit cold last year and how many times for a dusting or anticipating snow during the day? Then they go to school in this? This is why people bitch either way. They're beyond inconsistent.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: And.... ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:09AM

Vdot is asleep at the wheel. I know that plows are ineffective until 1/2" of a ow on roads, but at 6:30 am, the parkway was like a Andes mountain pass. Hadn't. Been. Touched. I saw NO plows or evidence of a plow from Chantilly to Reston.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: i got nothing ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:10AM

I noticed that the douche Ryan McElveen has nothing to say this am on Twitter.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: out of the office for the next 6 ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:11AM

so I sent an email to the Asst. Super, my school board rep and the transportation team leader for Frost. Here is what I got from the team leader from Frost

"Perez-Tobar, Milagro (Millie)
9:06 AM (3 minutes ago)


I will be out of the office for the next 6 weeks. You may contact Brenda Urquia or Shannon McInerney at Area II Transportation (703) 446-2050 or by email at
BSUrquia@fcps.edu
SMMcInerney@fcps.edu"

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Right Call ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:14AM

The snow is about to end. It will be cleared by noon. One or two buses had some issues.

I'd say FCPS got it correct.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: LongBo ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:17AM

Tysons View Wrote:
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> View from Tysons @ 8 am


You R hot! Do u do anal?

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: more fcps incompetence ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:19AM

Right Call Wrote:
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> The snow is about to end. It will be cleared by
> noon. One or two buses had some issues.


Bullshit. My kid has been sitting on a bus for almost 3 hours at this point. If she were on a airplane, federal rules would require food, water, and a bathroom be available after 2 hours. What's FCPS doing? Nothing. No communication from school or district either. Oh, wait, I just checked the FCPS web page - it says "There are no emergency announcements at this time."

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Unlesss ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:19AM

Right Call Wrote:
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> The snow is about to end. It will be cleared by
> noon. One or two buses had some issues.
>
> I'd say FCPS got it correct.


Unless your kid drives themselves to school and got into an accident, like a neighbor's. luckily everyone is fine. A delay was the right call. Not this.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: ChadB ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:20AM

Notmyfault Wrote:
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> Hey, FCPS assumes that VDOT will have some trucks
> out there treating the roads and getting plows out
> early. On a 20 mile drive on 123 and the FFX
> parkway I saw 1 (one) count 'em ONE truck out on
> the roads.
>
> Quickest way to not being a popular governor is to
> screw up basic services. In his first real test
> McAuliffe failed miserably.


I'd say FCPS Superintendent screwed up - should have delayed or cancelled. Personnel at VDOT responsible for snow removal did not change when McAuliffe became the governor. They can't clear all roads, even just primary and secondary roads, in Fairfax within 2 hours.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: boboloolo ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:20AM

FFX use to not close in the late 80s/90s buses commonly slide off the road and wrecked or got stuck. Then they got smarter and started giving delays, now so many whiny, overachievers that don't have babysitting for their kids want to put the safety of all our kids on the line.

Take a day off, or let your kid stay home alone, if you not you are a jerk. We don't live in Wyoming where they have 4 cars on a road. It's NoVA where there's a million cars on the road and most can't or won't drive safely in the snow because they are typical self-centered NoVA POS.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: One or two? ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:20AM

Right Call Wrote:
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> The snow is about to end. It will be cleared by
> noon. One or two buses had some issues.
>
> I'd say FCPS got it correct.


Not really. More than one or two buses "had some issues" if 2 posters to this specific board have pictures of them from their neighborhood. There is also one in view of my dining room window. They close for nothing and stay open when there is an actual dangerous problem. Useless.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: FCPS Dropped the Ball ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:26AM

45 minutes after the local high school started, 22 teachers still had not arrived. FCPS dropped the ball on this one. Many teachers drive in from surrounding counties because they can't afford to live close to the schools where they work. Traffic was horrendous.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: My kid is still stuck ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:27AM

Another one with a kid who has been on a bus since 6:20 am this morning. He texted me and told me the bus driver said for the parents to come pick up their kids. WTH?

Called the school - they had no idea. Called FCPS Transportation - no surprise - busy signals. Called FCPS Safety - got a very harassed guy who said "yeah, I know the busses are stuck and Transportation isn't answering their phones."

Total FCPS fail. And McElveen is a total a-hole.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: biDSGkl ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:27AM

this was a bad choice by fcps. some people better get fired.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: ChadB ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:28AM

And.... Wrote:
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> Vdot is asleep at the wheel. I know that plows are
> ineffective until 1/2" of a ow on roads, but at
> 6:30 am, the parkway was like a Andes mountain
> pass. Hadn't. Been. Touched. I saw NO plows or
> evidence of a plow from Chantilly to Reston.


How fast do you think they can plow every primary and secondary road in Fairfax County? You people are crazy that you expect every main road at blacktop while a snowstorm has just started and is not forecast to stop until 11 AM. They couldn't do that in Minnesota, let alone Virginia.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: HR Rep ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:30AM

biDSGkl Wrote:
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> this was a bad choice by fcps. some people better
> get fired.


That is really funny, fired? You have to commit a serious felony to get fired from FCPS, and then you might get rehired

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Gullibles Travels ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:32AM

My kid is still stuck Wrote:
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> Another one with a kid who has been on a bus since
> 6:20 am this morning. He texted me and told me
> the bus driver said for the parents to come pick
> up their kids. WTH?
>
> Called the school - they had no idea. Called FCPS
> Transportation - no surprise - busy signals.
> Called FCPS Safety - got a very harassed guy who
> said "yeah, I know the busses are stuck and
> Transportation isn't answering their phones."
>
> Total FCPS fail. And McElveen is a total a-hole.

The best way to get the school buses moving is for you to post naked pics of yourself here.

I also have a bridge in NY that I am selling. Great bargain, you can charge tolls! Text me.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Furthermore ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:33AM

HR Rep Wrote:
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> biDSGkl Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > this was a bad choice by fcps. some people
> better
> > get fired.
>
>
> That is really funny, fired? You have to commit a
> serious felony to get fired from FCPS, and then
> you might get rehired at a higher salary <\b>.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: adajd ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:35AM

closed your tag, dude

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: matt 703 ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:37AM

Agree they blew it! I woke up, saw the snow and couldn't believe there wasn't a 2 hour delay. I decided I would drive my kid to school, but then I took one look at the road in front of my house and kept her home. No way was I letting her ride on the bus, no plowing done, no salting in clifton.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: School Board Members nopeh ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:40AM

Nice attacks on Mcelveen, but it's Plattenberg who made the decision.
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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Stuck in Fairfax ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:42AM

Picture taken about 815 Both buses are stuck. Heading towards Main St in Fairfax City.
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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Right Call is an Idiot ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:44AM

You're an idiot. You're opinion is garbage.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Late Release ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:44AM

Looks like they should EXTEND the school day until all this get cleared up. No sense releasing the kids at their normal time.

Extend the school day a couple of hours so the roads can be cleaned up.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: K ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:47AM

There are currently 18 kids In the hospital for a bus rolling onto a car. FCPS needs to make this right.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: bobabooie ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:49AM

School bus stuck on Popes Head Rd. Parents coming to pick up kids, running off the road. Poilice car responding ran into 3 abandoned cars, completely shut down between parkway and 123. (no injuries)

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: yeo ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:49AM

School Board Members nopeh Wrote:
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> Nice attacks on Mcelveen, but it's Plattenberg
> who made the decision.

Yeah, but McElveen thought he was such a rockstar for last years post announcing school closed due to snow. Total silence today.

Plattenberg's not much better - "our number one priority is student safety".

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Really?? ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:50AM

What's particularly stupid is the school year has 13 freaking days built in for cancellations. What? We couldn't risk using one of them?

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: NNtLb ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:50AM

I heard most the teachers have not showed up to school. lol.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Shit drivers ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:52AM

Just one more reason this place sucks a gigantic cock. Fuck Fairfax.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Chairman1961 ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:55AM

Apparently the folks in charge never received any risk management training. Risk of injury or fatality is never acceptable in areas where the type of work or mission does not routinely call for risks like in the military, police or EMS worlds. One should always err on the side of caution. This is a basic rule and the decision to close should have been very easy to make for a real executive. A career academic administrator on the other hand...??? To put it in terms some FCPS officials may come to understand - if you would have closed schools and it only dusted the grass you would have received some criticism but you'd still have a job. Keeping the schools open and starting a firestorm of complaints, you may lose your job. If nothing else you should have thought about your own self preservation and cancelled FCPS today.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: K ()
Date: January 06, 2015 09:55AM

There are kids in the hospital and fairfax doesn't even have the balls to say anything about it. Completely silent.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Transplant ()
Date: January 06, 2015 10:02AM

45 minutes for a 4 mile round trip. Laurel off Burke station was a flipping disaster, wrecks, inexperienced teem drivers spinning their wheel, panicking and stopping in middle of road. No cops, no vdot, no fcps clearing grounds.

In my 16 painful years here, say like today - very cold, small amount of snow, schools in session - are always the worst. Amount of snow was laughable; inability for public officials to deal with it is a serious problem.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: FCPS Epic Fail ()
Date: January 06, 2015 10:04AM

#closeFCPS ... this was an epic fail all around.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: regular guy ()
Date: January 06, 2015 10:09AM

A county run by democrats will always calculate that some lives may be lost in order to get the illegals into schools for lunches, that's just the way it works and they believe it is worth a few lives.

McAuliffe's VDOT is another outfit run by democrats with him in charge. I'd rather have a governor's wife take a watch from someone than have the roads clogged and children dying.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: TRUANT OFFICER MURPHY ()
Date: January 06, 2015 10:10AM

student Wrote:
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> My bus never came!!!

The hell it never came, you're just skipping school. Please standby while I dispatch the authorities to your location.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Ticked ()
Date: January 06, 2015 10:11AM

My son's high school bus is stuck. Transportation said we can drive our kid to school or wait until 11:30 am for replacement bus (5 hours later than regular bus!). WTH?

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: FkL9P ()
Date: January 06, 2015 10:11AM

So far about 4" where I am.

To the FOOL that said only a few buses had issues, this poster is a total TROLL/TOOL.

Have been listening to FCPS Transportation all morning.

Transportation told bus drivers if they were stuck either in traffic or snow, to stay where they are until the roads were cleared.

Problem is VDOT does not have it full complement of contractors on the road.

My understanding is FCPS needs to make the call by 3 am, but I call BS on this, they could have made the call at 6 am to delay 2 hours. Yes bus drivers would have been on the way, some on their routes, teachers may have been on the way in, but they could have still made the call and everyone would have been safer.

Also a 2 hour delay is not use of a Snow Day!! If FCPS would have delayed 2 hours they could have possibly continued to school, but if they would have delayed 2 hours, FCPS would have closed schools today.

But also realize that there are also special elections in some districts in the FCPS boundaries today, so if FCPS would have cancelled school for today, I assume they would have wanted to close the Polls for the voters.

I wonder if politics played into today's decision in any way??

It is really first and foremost about student safety and then about teacher, administration and bus driver safety, but we see what FCPS thinks about student safety.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: EcMPJ ()
Date: January 06, 2015 10:13AM

"We apologize for the difficulties the weather caused this morning. Please know that significant area government entities were coordinating at a very early hour. The decision was made with the best information we had very early this morning. Needless to say, the conditions were far worse than anticipated. Weather conditions are expected to improve around midday. At this time, we are planning to dismiss schools at their normal dismissal time, however, we are continuing to closely monitor the situation and will keep parents apprised. We are aware that people are asking us to cancel school. Students are safest at school when parents have not had a chance to make alternate plans for their child's return home from school. However, should you wish to pick up your child early, we will accommodate you. Again we apologize for the difficulties experienced this morning and we thank you for your patience."

took them till 10 am to announce anything. I saw kids stuck in a bus on the roadside moments ago. They will spend their school day in a bus in the snow.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Ub67I ()
Date: January 06, 2015 10:15AM

ChadB Wrote:
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> And.... Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Vdot is asleep at the wheel. I know that plows
> are
> > ineffective until 1/2" of a ow on roads, but at
> > 6:30 am, the parkway was like a Andes mountain
> > pass. Hadn't. Been. Touched. I saw NO plows or
> > evidence of a plow from Chantilly to Reston.
>
>
> How fast do you think they can plow every primary
> and secondary road in Fairfax County? You people
> are crazy that you expect every main road at
> blacktop while a snowstorm has just started and is
> not forecast to stop until 11 AM. They couldn't
> do that in Minnesota, let alone Virginia.


I don't think OP said anything about a plowed road. No evidence of plow activity is different. Main arteries should at least have evidence that vdot is on the case.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: 'worse than anticipated?' ()
Date: January 06, 2015 10:16AM

"Far worse than anticipated" WTF the post had the storm forecast with great precision. We ended up on the high end of the 1-3 inch forecast but they said they were very very confident. There was significant accumulation on the road at 3am already. Forecast was for continued cold weather so no melting was/is expected.

I dont get it how was this 'worse than anticipated?'

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Be Responsible Parents ()
Date: January 06, 2015 10:16AM

You are ultimately in charge of your own children's safety and well being.

If you felt the conditions were too unsafe to send your children to school, then keep them home with you.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: school ()
Date: January 06, 2015 10:21AM

FCPS got it right.

This can help the kids understand that there are no guarantees in life, you need to watch out for yourselves and your family. You cant always depend on the government to do your thinking for you. Try to have a backup plan for anything you do.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: NippleChuck ()
Date: January 06, 2015 10:25AM

Just now got an email that we can pick our kids up if we want to but Schools will be closing "at normal times" what a bunch of doushes
Nip

A message from FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Dear Parents:



We apologize for the difficulties the weather caused this morning. Please know that significant area government entities were coordinating at a very early hour. The decision was made with the best information we had very early this morning. Needless to say, the conditions were far worse than anticipated.

Weather conditions are expected to improve around midday. At this time, we are planning to dismiss schools at their normal dismissal time, however, we are continuing to closely monitor the situation and will keep parents apprised.

We are aware that people are asking us to cancel school. Students are safest at school when parents have not had a chance to make alternate plans for their child’s return home from school. However, should you wish to pick up your child early, we will accommodate you.

Again we apologize for the difficulties experienced this morning and we thank you for your patience.



Fairfax County Public Schools

Nip



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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Spare us ()
Date: January 06, 2015 10:30AM

Spare us the emails FCPS! Actions speak louder than words....

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Bill.N. ()
Date: January 06, 2015 10:31AM

A generation ago it would be possible to wait until about an hour before busses' first pickup to decide. Now with bus drivers travelling further and many parents needing to make daycare arrangements I think schools are trying to make the call earlier.

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Posted by: chuckhoffmann ()
Date: January 06, 2015 10:38AM

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Late Call ()
Date: January 06, 2015 10:39AM

FCPS could have made a later call, it would not have helped the bus drivers in route or on the road or the teachers or administrators already at school, but they could could have called a 2 hour delay at 5:30 am without a major issue.

The problem with government and bureaucracies is if they make a decision, it is "damn the torpedoes". There is no re-evaluation or compromise, it is all digital.

It is like Joe is in charge, not me, Joe said school was on, who am I to question Joe??

As they say, you can't fix stupid and common sense is officially dead.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: all screwed up ()
Date: January 06, 2015 10:43AM

Bill.N. Wrote:
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> A generation ago it would be possible to wait
> until about an hour before busses' first pickup to
> decide. Now with bus drivers travelling further
> and many parents needing to make daycare
> arrangements I think schools are trying to make
> the call earlier.


The feds have work at home rules in place and the roads are so fucked up people can't get to work anyway. This was a total screw up.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: ChadB ()
Date: January 06, 2015 10:45AM

regular guy Wrote:
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> A county run by democrats will always calculate
> that some lives may be lost in order to get the
> illegals into schools for lunches, that's just the
> way it works and they believe it is worth a few
> lives.
>
> McAuliffe's VDOT is another outfit run by
> democrats with him in charge. I'd rather have a
> governor's wife take a watch from someone than
> have the roads clogged and children dying.


No, no, no. They're not trying to get illegals to school safely, they're trying to get racists such as yourself to school so that they can learn that not every person of color in the country is "illegal". That actually sounds smart to me. Obviously, they school system failed miserably with you.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Mr Asshat ()
Date: January 06, 2015 11:01AM

Illumaniti! You've come to take control! you can take my heartbeat, but you can't break my soul!

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Almost 4 Inches ()
Date: January 06, 2015 11:12AM

Photo evidence Tysons/McLean almost 4 inches of snow!
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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Silly dictionary ()
Date: January 06, 2015 11:17AM

ChadB Wrote:
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> regular guy Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > A county run by democrats will always calculate
> > that some lives may be lost in order to get the
> > illegals into schools for lunches, that's just
> the
> > way it works and they believe it is worth a few
> > lives.
> >
> > McAuliffe's VDOT is another outfit run by
> > democrats with him in charge. I'd rather have
> a
> > governor's wife take a watch from someone than
> > have the roads clogged and children dying.
>
>
> No, no, no. They're not trying to get illegals to
> school safely, they're trying to get racists such
> as yourself to school so that they can learn that
> not every person of color in the country is
> "illegal". That actually sounds smart to me.
> Obviously, they school system failed miserably
> with you.


What did he say that was racist? That was a political comment, not a racial one. That's the term for people that enter the country illegally- sounds like you're racist for interpreting that word to mean "people of color" instead of it's actual definition.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: ...... ()
Date: January 06, 2015 11:19AM

Tysons View Wrote:
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> View from Tysons @ 8 am

You look hot

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: nd9nj ()
Date: January 06, 2015 11:22AM

Silly dictionary Wrote:
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> What did he say that was racist? That was a
> political comment, not a racial one. That's the
> term for people that enter the country illegally-
> sounds like you're racist for interpreting that
> word to mean "people of color" instead of it's
> actual definition.

The difference between a Klan member and ChadB is that a Klan member knows he's a racist. ChadB is blissfully unaware of his own racial prejudices while sitting atop his high horse.

Illegal does not mean a person of color, and an illegal is someone who entered this country illegally, period.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: YTVdG ()
Date: January 06, 2015 11:23AM

...... Wrote:
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> Tysons View Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > View from Tysons @ 8 am
>
> You look hot

Yeah, it's not his picture though because there are no chicks on FFXU. It's probably a repost from Twitter.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Goober Asshole Report ()
Date: January 06, 2015 11:26AM

Notmyfault Wrote:
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> Hey, FCPS assumes that VDOT will have some trucks
> out there treating the roads and getting plows out
> early. On a 20 mile drive on 123 and the FFX
> parkway I saw 1 (one) count 'em ONE truck out on
> the roads.
>
> Quickest way to not being a popular governor is to
> screw up basic services. In his first real test
> McAuliffe failed miserably.

What a fucking goober asshole!!!

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Actually Actually ()
Date: January 06, 2015 11:26AM

Plows have been out in Vienna and all the roads are quite safe. I'm enjoying a coffee at Cafe Amouri after conducting some pleasurable business at my bank. Sorry you goobers elsewhere are having such problems.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Helicopter Parent Observer ()
Date: January 06, 2015 11:27AM

Anyone have some popcorn? This thread is going to pop!

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Goober Asshole Report ()
Date: January 06, 2015 11:32AM

Late Call Wrote:
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> It is like Joe is in charge, not me, Joe said
> school was on, who am I to question Joe??
> As they say, you can't fix stupid and common sense
> is officially dead.

What a stupid goober asshole!!!

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Goober Asshole Report ()
Date: January 06, 2015 11:38AM

all screwed up Wrote:
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> The feds have work at home rules in place and the
> roads are so fucked up people can't get to work
> anyway. This was a total screw up.

There was ZERO snow at 4:00 am. Precip was just beginning to move in at that hour. If they'd gone with a delay, all these bitch-about-FcPS posts would be about the needless disruption of hardworking poeple's lives by uncaring bureaucrats. What a collective bunch of stupid goober assholes.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Beaver Cleaver ()
Date: January 06, 2015 11:43AM

#FCPSstudentlivesmatter

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: That's just stupid ()
Date: January 06, 2015 11:45AM

nd9nj Wrote:
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> Illegal does not mean a person of color, and an illegal
> is someone who entered this country illegally, period.

Nearly half of the people who would currently be deemed illegal in fact entered the country legally. Even a stupid person ought to have known that.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: FCPS Sharpton ()
Date: January 06, 2015 11:45AM

#Booksdowndontopen

#FCPSstudentlivesmatter

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: dwjcc ()
Date: January 06, 2015 11:52AM

'worse than anticipated?' Wrote:
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> "Far worse than anticipated" WTF the post had the
> storm forecast with great precision. We ended up
> on the high end of the 1-3 inch forecast but they
> said they were very very confident. There was
> significant accumulation on the road at 3am
> already. Forecast was for continued cold weather
> so no melting was/is expected.
>
> I dont get it how was this 'worse than
> anticipated?'


At 6am, News 4 and TWC anticipated .5-1” for Fairfax. When I left my home in Reston at 7am there were at least 2” on the car. At 9am the prediction was bumped to 4-6. I'd say that conditions were worse than expected depending on where you got your info.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Way smarter than "The Assfuck" ()
Date: January 06, 2015 11:55AM

The Assfuck Wrote:
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> Plows have been out in Vienna and all the roads
> are quite safe. I'm enjoying a coffee at Cafe
> Amouri after conducting some pleasurable business
> at my bank. Sorry you goobers elsewhere are
> having such problems.

Actually, Vienna roads were NOT plowed this morning and because you are just a shut-in goober assfuck who lives in the Seven Corners area of overshadowed and declining Falls Church, you were too fucking dumb to spell Caffe Amouri correctly. What a stupid worthless assfuck.

Go ahead...claim it was just a TYPO, Mr. 7-1=5. You make a bigger j0ke of yourself every day, dim-bulb.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Nanook of the North ()
Date: January 06, 2015 11:56AM

I laugh at you mortals from Fairfax.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: SR Dude ()
Date: January 06, 2015 12:06PM

LCPS has a word processor and knows how to cut and paste!

From FCPS
We apologize for the difficulties the weather caused this morning. Please know that significant area government entities were coordinating at a very early hour. The decision was made with the best information we had very early this morning. Needless to say, the conditions were far worse than anticipated.

Weather conditions are expected to improve around midday. At this time, we are planning to dismiss schools at their normal dismissal time, however, we are continuing to closely monitor the situation and will keep parents apprised.

We are aware that people are asking us to cancel school. Students are safest at school when parents have not had a chance to make alternate plans for their child’s return home from school. However, should you wish to pick up your child early, we will accommodate you.

Again we apologize for the difficulties experienced this morning and we thank you for your patience.

Fairfax County Public Schools


From Loudoun County Public Schools

We apologize for the difficulties the weather caused this morning. After careful consideration of all available information, including advanced weather forecasts and real-time monitoring of road conditions across the county, LCPS made an early morning decision to keep schools open Tuesday, January 6th.

Clearly, the conditions became far worse than anticipated. Students are safest at school when parents have not had a chance to make alternate plans for their child's return home. At this time, we are planning to dismiss schools at their normal dismissal time. However, all LCPS after-school activities are cancelled for this afternoon and evening.

LCPS regrets any confusion or stress today’s decisions may have caused. Student and staff safety remains our top priority and policy and procedures around closure and delay decision-making will be reviewed and enhanced using lessons learned today.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: What a bunch of losers ()
Date: January 06, 2015 12:09PM

> At 6am, News 4 and TWC anticipated .5-1” for
> Fairfax. When I left my home in Reston at 7am
> there were at least 2” on the car. At 9am the
> prediction was bumped to 4-6. I'd say that
> conditions were worse than expected depending on
> where you got your info.

Yeah, media weather-types are now trying to throw Fairfax, Loudoun, and other school systems under the bus for reacting appropriately to conditions on the ground plus the advice and forecasts of these same weather-types. The media are just spineless fucking cowards.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: My Kinda Town ()
Date: January 06, 2015 12:09PM

The Assfuck Wrote:
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> Plows have been out in Vienna and all the roads
> are quite safe. I'm enjoying a coffee at Cafe
> Amouri after conducting some pleasurable business
> at my bank. Sorry you goobers elsewhere are
> having such problems.

Actually, Vienna roads were NOT plowed this morning and because you are just a shut-in goober assfuck who lives in the Seven Corners area of overshadowed and declining Falls Church, you were too fucking dumb to spell Caffe Amouri correctly. What a stupid worthless assfuck.

Go ahead...claim it was just a TYPO, Mr. 7-1=5. You make a bigger j0ke of yourself every day, dim-bulb.



Nothing funnier than a butthurt dry alcoholic that can't get out of the driveway to stock up the Vienna ABC store!

A ""jOke" indeed...

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: cap weather gang said more ()
Date: January 06, 2015 12:14PM

It's time to dump NOAA for forecasting. CWG's multiple reports were far more accurate.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: 496 ()
Date: January 06, 2015 12:19PM

Whiny faggots, start shoveling.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Way smarter than "The Assfuck" ()
Date: January 06, 2015 12:23PM

The Assfuck Wrote:
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> Nothing funnier than a butthurt dry alcoholic that can't
> get out of the driveway to stock up the ienna ABC store!
> A ""jOke" indeed...

The Assfuck makes a bigger jerk out of himself with each passing post. And speaking of The Post, my carrier was not able to get out here this morning for whatever reason, so I packed up and headed in to grab a copy at 7-11. No plowing anywhere at all, so braking on the hills was a bit iffy, but otherwise we wealthy estate-dwellers have the equipment to deal with these sorts of things. By the way, how's my dust tasting, you worthless Falls Church douchebag?

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Get up to speed ()
Date: January 06, 2015 12:28PM

cap weather gang said more Wrote:
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> It's time to dump NOAA for forecasting. CWG's
> multiple reports were far more accurate.

Idiot. CWG uses NWS micro-data and tries to add some marginal extra value from such ad hoc anecdotal data as they can gather.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: AirCare ()
Date: January 06, 2015 12:29PM

The Assfuck Wrote:
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> Nothing funnier than a butthurt dry alcoholic that can't
> get out of the driveway to stock up the ienna ABC store!
> A ""jOke" indeed...

The Assfuck makes a bigger jerk out of himself with each passing post. And speaking of The Post, my carrier was not able to get out here this morning for whatever reason, so I packed up and headed in to grab a copy at 7-11. No plowing anywhere at all, so braking on the hills was a bit iffy, but otherwise we wealthy estate-dwellers have the equipment to deal with these sorts of things. By the way, how's my dust tasting, you worthless Falls Church douchebag?



Here's a Tweet for you....you're not funny, the only dust any of us are tasting is the desiccated remains of your attempts at humor...

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Women on FU ()
Date: January 06, 2015 12:30PM

YTVdG Wrote:
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> ...... Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Tysons View Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > View from Tysons @ 8 am
> >
> > You look hot
>
> Yeah, it's not his picture though because there
> are no chicks on FFXU. It's probably a repost from
> Twitter.


Except Megan toohey. But she's definitely not hot.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: The Assfuck ()
Date: January 06, 2015 12:33PM

People in Fairfax bitch about everything yet they continue to live in that shithole. Idiots.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: gets up = maggot. And stupid. ()
Date: January 06, 2015 12:34PM

And knows nothing about CWG...

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: missed your target (again) ()
Date: January 06, 2015 12:35PM

My Kinda Town Wrote:
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> The Assfuck Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Plows have been out in Vienna and all the roads
> > are quite safe. I'm enjoying a coffee at Cafe
> > Amouri after conducting some pleasurable
> business
> > at my bank. Sorry you goobers elsewhere are
> > having such problems.
>
> Actually, Vienna roads were NOT plowed this
> morning and because you are just a shut-in goober
> assfuck who lives in the Seven Corners area of
> overshadowed and declining Falls Church, you were
> too fucking dumb to spell Caffe Amouri correctly.
> What a stupid worthless assfuck.
>
> Go ahead...claim it was just a TYPO, Mr. 7-1=5.
> You make a bigger j0ke of yourself every day,
> dim-bulb.
>
>
>
> Nothing funnier than a butthurt dry alcoholic that
> can't get out of the driveway to stock up the
> Vienna ABC store!
>
> A ""jOke" indeed...


Flattered, but you really need to stop seeing me in every post. Some might think you are obsessed and that is a trait you definitely don't want coupled with your multiple personalities.

You do realize that you are the butt of not just my jokes, but a great many others as well.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Way smarter than "The Assfuck" ()
Date: January 06, 2015 12:38PM

The Assfuck Wrote:
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> Here's a Tweet for you....you're not funny, the
> only dust any of us are tasting is the desiccated
> remains of your attempts at humor...

Aw, poor baby! Unfortunately, Sally Strothers is busy and can't help you right now, but here, let me sing you a lullaby to make it all better...

Dum.....dum, dum
Dum.....dum, dum
Dum.....dum, dum
Dum.....dum, dum

Out in Merrifield
We pay lots for our meals
And leave a nice tip for that sweet Heather.
We don't need to fib
To seem like we're glib
We already got all our shit together, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Don't cry. But keep a sharp eye
You got to watch for teenage douchebags
Come on, take my hand. We'll travel east into douchebag-land
Put on your hat and prepare for great disorder.
There's holes in the ground.
And unintelligent sound.
Let's push right on through it
Before we get deported.

Teenage douchebags
Watch out for teenage douchebags,
Teenage douchebags, oh yeah
Teenage douchebags

They're all worthless!!!

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Fraudulent paperwork ()
Date: January 06, 2015 12:39PM

That's just stupid Wrote:
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> nd9nj Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Illegal does not mean a person of color, and an
> illegal
> > is someone who entered this country illegally,
> period.
>
> Nearly half of the people who would currently be
> deemed illegal in fact entered the country
> legally. Even a stupid person ought to have known
> that.

Nope. It's not legal to enter on a visa with intentions to stay. You realize that you have to sign papers saying that you won't do that and you accept that it is a crime to do so. They just don't know you've committed the crime until after.

But you're right that's how most illegal aliens came to be here.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: mediator of ffxu ()
Date: January 06, 2015 12:40PM

Will you two get a room?

I would suggest they Hyatt at Mosaic.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Ralph Pootawn ()
Date: January 06, 2015 12:44PM

What a bunch of sissies.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: RydelllRoad ()
Date: January 06, 2015 12:46PM

Here is a reasonable attitude. Yes, FCPS probably did err in not implementing a 2 hour delay to see what they were dealing with. Yes, the roads ended up being in extremely slick and unfavorable conditions in many places - if you were not on the road before 7AM you were screwed.

But c'mon... this really was not that bad. Just an inconvenience for the most part. In the big scope of things/life just deal with it and move on. Not worth bringing out the lynch mob.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Nice try ()
Date: January 06, 2015 12:48PM

I have far higher standards than the Hyatt at Mosaic. That's for Falls Church goobers that think they're going somewhere "upscale."

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: Way smnarter than "The Assfuck" ()
Date: January 06, 2015 12:55PM

The assfuck Wrote:
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> Flattered, but you really need to stop seeing me
> in every post. Some might think you are obsessed
> and that is a trait you definitely don't want
> coupled with your multiple personalities. You do
> realize that you are the butt of not just my jokes,
> but a great many others as well.

The only poster who flatters The Assfuck is The Assfuck, an otherwise untalented and poorly educated douchebag who once used 26 different handles on ONE PAGE in a failed attempt to keep up with one of his many betters. Ever see those YouTube videos where the little kitten tries to jump from the table to the couch but just falls flat in a heap on the floor instead? Reminds me of you every time I see one of those.

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Re: FCPS Screwed Up
Posted by: blocks away off target ()
Date: January 06, 2015 12:59PM

Way smnarter than "The Assfuck" Wrote:
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> The assfuck Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Flattered, but you really need to stop seeing
> me
> > in every post. Some might think you are
> obsessed
> > and that is a trait you definitely don't want
> > coupled with your multiple personalities. You
> do
> > realize that you are the butt of not just my
> jokes,
> > but a great many others as well.
>
> The only poster who flatters The Assfuck is The
> Assfuck, an otherwise untalented and poorly
> educated douchebag who once used 26 different
> handles on ONE PAGE in a failed attempt to keep up
> with one of his many betters. Ever see those
> YouTube videos where the little kitten tries to
> jump from the table to the couch but just falls
> flat in a heap on the floor instead? Reminds me
> of you every time I see one of those.


Rich, very rich coming from a multiple personality poster. You've been bested once again. Learn to live with it and you wouldn't be so obsessed with me. I don't even need to post for me to best you. I'm in your head 24/7 and your multiple posts about me more than prove it. Go a day without thinking about me. I bet you can't.

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