MCPS plans to reopen schools on Monday, but as streets remain one-lane and icy conditions persist in various places, many anticipate a tough morning commute.

“I’m hoping that the county gives a two-hour delay, but the problem with that is that [students] are coming with normal business commuters and that could be a mess,” principal Alan Goodwin said. “Overall, I think we’re going to have late students and staff on Monday.”

Whether or not there will be a two-hour delay on Monday, a poster outlining the two-hour delay homeroom schedule already hangs in the stairwell.

Driving to school will be difficult, especially through the back entrance, where the road to the parking lot past the baseball field is narrow in some places. Lane closures will also disrupt traffic on Old Georgetown Road, Wilson Lane and other neighborhood roads.

“A week after Snowzilla, the storm that dumped two feet of snow on the D.C. region, there are still headaches for drivers,” Dana Hedgepath reported for the Washington Post. “Snow is blocking many turn lanes. On some roads, it takes away entire lanes.”

Goodwin urged the Whitman community to carpool and take the school bus in an email sent last week. Giant mounds of snow cover many parking spaces and the parking spots near the baseball field are unaccessible.

“We’ve lost a lot of parking spots which is not good in this community,” Goodwin said. “Fortunately it’s going to get up to 65 [degrees] on Thursday so a lot of it might melt.”

But it’s unlikely the snow in the parking lot will be cleared by the time school resumes.

“If they don’t clear the parking lot completely then the parking lot will be a mess,” senior Theresa Colston said. “I’ll just try to get there earlier to get a spot.”