Post by brillbilly on Feb 12, 2010 4:33:29 GMT 10
There's no business like snow business in the nation's capital – in fact there's no business going on at all
White-out at the White House: more snow in Washington DC. Photograph: Yuri Gripas/AFP/Getty Images
Snowpocalypse! Snowmageddon! Snowtorious B.I.G! Whatever they call it, it spells yet another day of heavy snow and blizzards in the capital of the free world as Washington DC comes to a standstill. Congress and federal government offices are closed, as are all the schools and virtually all commerce has given up.
The centre of the city had the air of a zombie movie, with few cars or people to be seen. Walking around the White House at lunchtime, only the McDonalds on 17th Street and Pennsylvannia Avenue was open (the one where Bill Clinton used to breakfast after his morning jogs, back in the innocent days when US presidents could go out in public with only a few dozen secret service guards) as well as a branch of Teaism, the boutique tea-and-vegetarian-bento-box place by Lafayette Park. A few enterprising tourists were outside the White House but they all appeared to be from Sweden or Norway.
Elsewhere, Fox News forced poor Major Garrett, its White House correspondent, into a humiliating live televised tussle with a rogue umbrella outside the Snowbama White House this morning. The umbrella appears to have won. In contrast to Garrett's pathetic struggles, the British Embassy in DC tweets that Winston Churchill remains upright and triumphant.
The weight of the snow is bringing down trees all over the district. DC's department of transport is telling drivers to stay off the roads except for emergencies, while area hospitals are calling for four-wheel drive SUV owners to volunteer to ferry staff and patients. And the national weather service has the helpful advice for stranded drivers to crack their windows to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning.
Update: It looks like everything is closed again tomorrow (Thursday), including the Federal government, the universities and so on.
Meanwhile, the national weather service announces that this is the snow-iest winter in the recorded history of Washington DC – that's 54.9 inches, which as many readers will recall is more than the 54.4 inches that fell during the winter of 1898-1899. And there's plenty of February still to come.
wow is the world in for a bumpy ride ;D to me to you to me to you,lol your turn to have snow,hold tight fast ride,pass it back when your done lol ;D
White-out at the White House: more snow in Washington DC. Photograph: Yuri Gripas/AFP/Getty Images
Snowpocalypse! Snowmageddon! Snowtorious B.I.G! Whatever they call it, it spells yet another day of heavy snow and blizzards in the capital of the free world as Washington DC comes to a standstill. Congress and federal government offices are closed, as are all the schools and virtually all commerce has given up.
The centre of the city had the air of a zombie movie, with few cars or people to be seen. Walking around the White House at lunchtime, only the McDonalds on 17th Street and Pennsylvannia Avenue was open (the one where Bill Clinton used to breakfast after his morning jogs, back in the innocent days when US presidents could go out in public with only a few dozen secret service guards) as well as a branch of Teaism, the boutique tea-and-vegetarian-bento-box place by Lafayette Park. A few enterprising tourists were outside the White House but they all appeared to be from Sweden or Norway.
Elsewhere, Fox News forced poor Major Garrett, its White House correspondent, into a humiliating live televised tussle with a rogue umbrella outside the Snowbama White House this morning. The umbrella appears to have won. In contrast to Garrett's pathetic struggles, the British Embassy in DC tweets that Winston Churchill remains upright and triumphant.
The weight of the snow is bringing down trees all over the district. DC's department of transport is telling drivers to stay off the roads except for emergencies, while area hospitals are calling for four-wheel drive SUV owners to volunteer to ferry staff and patients. And the national weather service has the helpful advice for stranded drivers to crack their windows to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning.
Update: It looks like everything is closed again tomorrow (Thursday), including the Federal government, the universities and so on.
Meanwhile, the national weather service announces that this is the snow-iest winter in the recorded history of Washington DC – that's 54.9 inches, which as many readers will recall is more than the 54.4 inches that fell during the winter of 1898-1899. And there's plenty of February still to come.
wow is the world in for a bumpy ride ;D to me to you to me to you,lol your turn to have snow,hold tight fast ride,pass it back when your done lol ;D