it's SNOWING here in OUR Nation's Capital, ice, cold, more coming

[diamond14]

at this point, there are TWO major fronts coming into DC, right behind each other...snow is predicted THROUGH the CORONATION !!!!!

at current time, roads are BAD, ice, snow (not a lot compared to MICHIGAN, but a few inches on the ground and still snowing - PEOPLE ARE PANICKED here, which is typical for the one or two snowstorms a year that we get)....those rich reTHUGlicans arriving today are being DELAYED at all airports, with scary rides for those in their PRIVATE JETS.....

it is also COLD....so if you are coming for the CORONATION, please dress warm, thermo-underwear, full winter outfits, gloves, hats, face masks, etc.....it's right now about 16 F with wind-chill....



HAHAHAHAHAHA...bush* rich tex-ASS reTHUGlicans will NOT come out in the cold/snow....so it's just US -the PROTESTORS....last time, in the rain, even the POLICE stayed inside Federal Buildings, so it was ALL OPEN FOR THE COUNTER-Coronation......



DC...Wednesday, January 19, 2005...early, the situation is definitely deteriorating by the hour....



'reviewing stands' for the rich war-profiteers...ice cold....

[KurtNYC]

1. Hell freezing over

[realFedUp]

8. Great description Kurt.

I hope no one is seriously hurt by the
weather, but "bring it on".

[drdtroit]

32. Oh yeah!

:kick:

[SharonRB]

51. LOL - how true!

[KittyWampus]

58. Nature Gives Us A Little Smile

[Hand]

2. OUTSTANDING!

All those fat cats from Texas are in for a miserable couple of days. LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW!

Anyone care to bet that the swearing-in gets moved indoors?

:evilgrin:

[skylarmae]

4. imagine all those gowns dragging in the mud and

all those dirty boots. Heaven, .......

[ObaMania]

20. Moved indoors for security, not weather...

.. for the crowning of the coward prince.

[Hand]

38. I'll be damned...

This is really startling. I cannot think of another instance of this, even during WWII, the height of the Cold War, Korea, you name it.

He is truly a coward; a creeping coward. Fuck him.

[spooked]

67. More photos

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. The Chimp doesn't have much luck with his CORONATIONS

weather wise does he? :evilgrin:

[bobweaver]

5. Hopefully the microphones will freeze up and fail.

[diamond14]

11. if the second approaching front hits hard, DC will SHUT DOWN..

the DC Metro area is simply not set up to handle snow storms....we only get ONE or TWO or NONE every winter....last week, the temperatures were in the 60's....now, it's ICE COLD.....

when DC gets snow, EVERYBODY PANICS !!!....nobody has snow tires, or snow wipers...no one knows how to drive in the snow, so the roads become a TOTAL DISASTER....there is hardly any snowplows, it's just not worth it to maintain a fleet of plows for the ONE storm....

and nobody knows how to apply salt correctly, or how to walk in snow/ice....for the most part, people just panic and STAY HOME (that especially includes waiters, maids, cooks, servers, etc).....

[Taxloss]

12. Sounds like the UK.

We get winter every year, year people seem surprised by it.

Very mild this year, though.

[MADem]

30. And not a soul there seems to know how to drive in snow/ice

You go to your workcenter, and it's the guys from Buffalo, MN, VT, NH, ME, MA, Montana and so on who show up for work. Everyone else has called in and left a whining message on the answering machine! (I'm plowed in, I can't get out, the roads are too slippery, I can't drive in this stuff....ha, ha, ha!).

And the skidding vehicles...it's almost funny to watch, really. A commute in NH that would be a no-sweat evolution is like demolition derby in MD/DC/NorVA. I especially like it when the dimwits in SUVs drive like it's summertime, and they think they can do that simply because they have an SUV.

And salt!!! You're right, they don't understand the salt and sand thing at all. It's the KEY to efficient road clearing (and keeping the road cleared between plow runs!).

I was in DC when it hit 68 last week. What a difference!

[MsTryska]

34. *lol* the same thing happens in Atlanta....

however, even after my youth in Upstate new York, i'm not gonna drive on these streets if it snows. thye don't have salt trucks and that makes it downright deadly.

[Hand]

39. Atlanta was hilarious!

When I lived in Colorado, one winter the evening news broadcast a gloating report on a two-inch snowfall in Atlanta. The high point was some sorry bastard trying to scrape his windshield with a cheap kitchen spatula! I was ROTFLMAO!

We had 12 inches in Halifax on Monday, BTW. Got a three-day weekend!

:hi:

[MsTryska]

41. heck i don't have a scraper even now.....

i just use plenty of windsheild fluid and the wipers.



the biggest dange ris the lack of salt tho.

it affects everything - not just the roads, but the sidewalks and storefronts too.

[Hand]

42. Speaking of salt!

I once saw a 7-11 clerk in DC pouring out table salt on the sidewalk during a snowfall! Wotta :dunce:!

[MsTryska]

44. heh - at my old job

we used a tin of kosher sea salt. (granted i worked for a food wholesaler)

[stanwyck]

46. I'm a transplanted Yankee living in Atlanta

and it's crazy world down here when it snows. Some people drive even faster...trying to outrun the snow? And, of course, all the traffic lights go out.

[MsTryska]

47. Hell we can't even drive in the rain...

hello from another yankee transplant! :hi:

[SharonRB]

52. My daughter went to AU

and lived there for 9 years, until about a month ago. Being from Michigan, she laughed at the drivers when it snowed. She was there the year they had a 19" snowfall -- she was home for Christmas and when she got back to DC a couple of days later, there was so much snow! The funny thing was that her bike was parked outside her dorm over a heat grate and all the snow round her bike was melted, but it was everywhere else.

[diamond14]

6. it's a message from gawwwwdddd to tex-asss.......

this will actually be GREAT for the protestors.....cops will NOT come out, and like your hometown police, they'll just lounge around in heated Federal Buildings along the route (that's what they did last time when it drizzled freezing rain....hey, they get OVERTIME too).....


AND, at my local grocery store yesterday evening, ALL THE "BIG" EGGS WERE SOLD OUT....the clerks said that it's been tough to keep eggs stocked (and they were LAUGHING about the shrub)....

[Greylyn58]

10. Oh my God

I was just thinking the same thing when I first read the post.

Very funny! And true... :)

[Spike from MN]

15. "All the big eggs were sold out."

Now THAT is hilarious. The coronation should be pretty damn entertaining. I can't wait to see the pics. Thanks for keeping us posted on this. And thanks for the laugh.

[SharonRB]

53. That's pretty funny.

And egg is hard enough to get off the limo when it isn't freezing out.

[susu369]

7. Hilarious posts

I need a good laugh or two....

[Darknyte7]

9. This is almost too good to be true...

And the snow is still coming down as we speak!

[opihimoimoi]

13. We need a tsunami of SNOW on the Place.......

[diamond14]

16. it could happen, with a second front approaching...these storms

hit the Appalacian Mountains and swirl around, sometimes missing DC, but every once in a while, with just the right weather patterns coming into OUR Nation's Capital...the BIG ONE hits....

currently on the radio, they are cautioning people about DRIVING, roads are ice and snow....BAD driving conditions....flights are delayed....

The snow is blowing by my office window at a 45 Degree angle, and I can barely see the building across the street....I LOVE IT...it's BEAUTIFUL....

[Darknyte7]

26. I just came back from grabbing some lunch...

The deli I went to is literally across the street from my office building. With the wind chill, it's absolutely miserable out there. Oh, and STILL snowing...

:7

[janx]

28. I live in a place that gets a lot of snow, and I love it too.

Perfect for D.C. right about now!

[saltpoint]

14. May God's wrath be visited on the wicked.

I doubt if the ornamental and ceremonial flash of Dubya's inaugural parties would much impress the soldiers in Mosul who have less armor than they need, or the tsunami refugees without water, food, clothing, and shelter, or the many thousands of Iraqis whose family and friends have been casualties of Bush's war.

[stanwyck]

50. Walter Reed could use some of that

money for badly needed medical equipment to treat the returning wounded. (shush. we're not supposed to talk about the returning wounded.)

[saltpoint]

55. Hi, stanwyck. You're right. The returning wounded --

-- is strictly a hush-hush topic.

[liberalhistorian]

17. Well, to use the same logic

that the fundies use to explain the tsunami, I guess God is expressing his displeasure over who will be in the WH for the next four years! Of course, we all know the current D.C. weather is all Clinton's fault! :evilgrin:

[MADem]

31. It's clearly the wrath of his mighty PENIS!!!

Clinton's PENIS is ruining the weecowboy's parade!! Bad, bad penis!

[Spazito]

18. I hope it blizzards, I hope that bush has to go indoors to...

to take the oath he lies about and all his wealthy contributors can't get to the festivities they paid for with the intent to gain lobbying points. It would be their 'just desserts', imo!

I also hope all citizens of DC will be safe.

[SharonRB]

54. All that money will have totally gone to waste

All the uneaten food, prepared for all the people whose planes can't get into DC. I hope they at least donate it all to some homeless shelters or something. It's pretty ironic that they insisted on spending $40 million and so much of it will be wasted. Oh, well, he's getting what he deserves. Hope it's a harbinger of what his second term will be like!

I hope Will Pitt got into DC okay today so he can blog tomorrow.

[BiggJawn]

19. Oh, boy, the "Perfect Snowstorm"...

This COULD go a long ways towards making a Believer out of me....

[DistantWind88]

24. About an inch so far

may be another inch or two predicted to fall. No impact yet.

[ObaMania]

21. Unfortunately, it has slowed as of noon, EST and will probably stop..

.. completely tonite.

We aren't really expecting much until the weekend. It's probably going to be a few days late.

Of course the little that has fallen so far is enough to screw things up a bit! ;)

[klyon]

22. maybe a good reason to move this event to the spring

that way we would have time to really count the ballots, paper ballots.

not to mention DC is beautiful when the trees are blooming

KL

[KamaAina]

25. Originally it was held on March 4

the idea was to decrease the time a lame duck spent in office.

[MADem]

35. You know, maybe they should rethink the

...Congressional SESSIONS instead. Of course, that would RUIN their summer and winter holidays, and we can't have THAT, can we? All those great boondoggles, those fancy Congressional delegations, which always seem to happen during "high season" in the foreign countries in question...!

[bikebloke]

23. I biked in this morning as usual.

Should be an adventure going home. But with the ground already frozen, it should be passable. Luckily, most of my route is not sharing the road with cars. Especially the cocky eejit suburban assault vehicle drivers.

[Darknyte7]

27. The current view from my office...

My office building is right off of Freedom Plaza here on Pennsylvania Avenue...

[diamond14]

45. THANKS for that beautiful photo....reporting now from Alexandria VA

just across the Potomac River from DC....03:30 PM


Everything here is TOTALLY MESSED UP...roads are a DISASTER...visibility is LOW, it's still snowing....local radios are telling everyone to STAY HOME, do NOT TRAVEL....


I measured TWO INCHES on the patio (five measurements, all at least TWO inches)...but most of the snow is melting into a nasty MUSH, which is making the roads virtually impassable on even the slightest of hills....sirens are screaming for emergencies, echoing throughout my neighborhood....this MUSH will freeze up tonight into a totally impassable mess....

Kids were all sent home from schools EARLY, DC schools CLOSED early, no classes at any colleges tonight....meetings are being cancelled for tonight on local radio.....


bush* had a BIG outdoor event scheduled this afternoon in the ELLIPSE (that huge park right in front of OUR White House)...haven't yet heard how it went....




ICE COLD seats ready for those rich reTHUGlican FAT-ASSES....
Seats are covered with snow on the stage of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, one day before the second term inauguration of US President George W. Bush.(AFP/Robert Sullivan)

[hfojvt]

29. Nature sympathizes

I am hoping that Bush will try to show how macho he is by not wearing a coat. If the country ever needed a Tippecanoe, we need one now.

[Fleshdancer]

33. could it shut down the airports tonight??? n/t

[MADem]

If there's only a few inches they will stay open

It won't be hard to plow the runways for such a small (relatively) amount of snow. If there's deicing to be done, that could delay departures, though. And delayed departures can mean delayed arrivals, if there's a shortage of ramp space. If you are travelling, allow extra time!

[Fleshdancer]

37. will protesters be at the airport too?

Because having the luggage terminals packed with a ton of people would make the process of leaving the airport much much slower too. I would hate for these people to miss the inauguration. lol

[MsTryska]

36. hee! what's that smell? smells kinda like....

wait a minute.....yeah it is! SchadenFreude!


So is the temp rising, dipping, staying steady? hopefully dipping.....if anymore precipitation comes in it will now and ice.

[Hand]

40. Message to God:

:yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock:

[kwassa]

43. Snow is stopped, only a couple inches, here is the forecast, no big deal

http://www.weather.com/weather/local/USMD0347?from=search_city

Thursday Jan.20
Mostly cloudy skies with a few snow showers later in the day. High 36F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 30%.

[Solly Mack]

48. I hope no homeless freeze to death in DC tonight

I'm sure the party will go on no matter

[liberalhistorian]

59. Reminds me of that poor

homeless WWII vet who froze to death just a few blocks from Raygun's main inaugural ball back in 1984; the ball was another opulent, lavish, expensive boondoggle.

In typical hypocritical repub fashion, Raygun and his cronies paid lip tribute to veterans and the military and their "noble service and sacrifice", yet he had never spent one day in the military himself and he didn't give a damn about veterans like that poor, suffering WWII vet who had given his all for his country and helped to save us from Nazism and the worst forms of fascism. Imagine going through that and then freezing to death on the streets of the capital of the nation that was supposedly so grateful for your service. Twenty years later and it still infuriates me to even think of it!

[Solly Mack]

61. 25 years later and Reagan as President still haunts me

[liberalhistorian]

68. Unfortunately, his legacy

will be haunting this country for many years to come!

[DiverDave]

49. And I have a 6AM delivery

at the Costco in Leesburg...I better get moving...

[RobertSeattle]

56. Can't help but have that "Nature's Way" song in my head

http://www.lyricsdownload.com/spirit-nature-s-way-lyrics.html

It's nature's way of telling you something's wrong
It's nature's way of telling you in a song
It's nature's way of receiving you
It's nature's way of retrieving you
It's nature's way of telling you
Something's wrong

It's nature's way of telling you, summer breeze
It's nature's way of telling you, dying trees
It's nature's way of receiving you
It's nature's way of retrieving you
It's nature's way of telling you
Something's wrong
It's nature's way, it's nature's way
It's nature's way, it's nature's way

It's nature's way of telling you
Something's wrong
It's nature's way of telling you
In a song, oh-h

It's nature's way of receiving you
It's nature's way
It's nature's way of retrieving you
It's nature's way
It's nature's way of telling you

[peacefreak]

57. And don't forget Dylan....

Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows

[yankeedem]

60. Paging William Harrison

would be a shame, wouldn't it.

[deadparrot]

63. I thought the same thing. nt

[Paintedlady]

62. Mother nature is pissed!

I hope all her wrath will be brought upon the chimp.
I feel sorry for the mooners, but I'm sure they can handle it.

[Cleita]

64. Looks like Gaia is making her statement.

It's nice a warm here in California. She must be pleased with Barbara Boxer.

[ckramer]

65. It seems that God is not happy about Bush

[greblc]

66. GWB would look great with a face blackend from frostbite.

We'll see how much his supporters love him. Does Armani make a Snow Suit?