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This is Washington DC (absolutely egregious omission by NYTimes, IMO), and not only were the roads blanketed with snow but exceedingly slippery a day earlier.
by ihsw 11y ago
This is Washington DC (absolutely egregious omission by NYTimes, IMO), and not only were the roads blanketed with snow but exceedingly slippery a day earlier.
See here for anecdotal reports regarding the city's absurd winter road strategy:
https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/41xgqe/lmfao/ https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/41xgqe/lmfao/
And furthermore, thousands of tickets will be forgiven:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-to-forgive-thousands-of-parking-tickets-issued-during-snowstorm/2016/01/28/a4e342de-c5db-11e5-a4aa-f25866ba0dc6_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-to-forgi...
- maxerickson 11y agoI dunno, not having much of a plan seems like an appropriate measure for storms that only happen every 5 years or so. Which sounds glib, but it takes a lot of equipment to be able to rapidly deal with snow on a lot of roads, equipment that would be sitting around rusting a lot of the time.
- mikeash 11y agoThis is more like a 25-year or 50-year event, I'd say. I think this was the #2 or #3 biggest blizzard recorded here. It's ok for something like that to screw things up for a few days.