JerichoHill
Bedrock of Knowledge
Well, its a horrible idea, honestly, but I'm totally for it, for utterly selfish reasons. Which of course means its bad
The DC Blizzard
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Miles Teg
Nuclear Powered Mentat
Honestly, who in god's name would choose D.C. as the summer capital? When you get down to it, 200 years of urban development or not, the place is still a swamp.
Do mean a "Lets move most 'Washington' functions to a different city each season" or a "Lets call a different city each month the capital while pretty much retaining Washington as the de facto year round capital." type of arrangement?
Well... I would derive a bit of sadistic pleasure from politicians moving everything from one city to the next each season... along with the lobbyists and such.
Miles Teg
Nuclear Powered Mentat
I'm just saying that even when considered outside of it's consequences, your idea doesn't work.
Good jokes make sense
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I'm just saying that even when considered outside of it's consequences, your idea doesn't work.
Good jokes make sense
What joke did I make?
schlaufuchs
Break My Heart
I read DC Blizzard and seriously thought this was a thread about the DQ Blizzards. Any one else do this? Now I'm hungry.
Just to stay OT, my uncle lives in the DC area (Alexandria, to be specific). Thankfully he was not caught in the blizzard: he was in Anchorage, AK instead.
Just to stay OT, my uncle lives in the DC area (Alexandria, to be specific). Thankfully he was not caught in the blizzard: he was in Anchorage, AK instead.
You need to mail all that snow to Vancouver-Whistler, ASAP. The Olympics starts in a couple of days, and they don't have enough snow for the ski hills or the snowboarding venue... (seriously)
Integral
Can't you hear it?
JH -
I was wondering how much the "snowmageddon" was fact and how much was fiction.
Hope you're doing all right out there. So I presume the entire capitol's basically shut down? I know that at the very least a Congressional hearing on the financial crisis was canceled today due to snow.
I was wondering how much the "snowmageddon" was fact and how much was fiction.
Hope you're doing all right out there. So I presume the entire capitol's basically shut down? I know that at the very least a Congressional hearing on the financial crisis was canceled today due to snow.
MagisterCultuum
Great Sage
Personally, I think it would have been better if we had not established a permanent capital but had congress/the president/etc move to a different state each year. Of course, this would require keeping the federal government quite small.
More or less. The only things that weren't canceled were the Caps and Wiz games AFAIK. Lots of people without power in both Maryland and VA, dunno about the District.
You people get to experience what a proper winter should be like! Enjoy it while you can.
classical_hero
In whom I trust
What is snow? There has never been a recorded incednet of snow falling in Perth, but on rare occasions we have seen it on the hills down south. All I can say is that I am glad that I am not in the blizzard right. 
JerichoHill
Bedrock of Knowledge
JH -
I was wondering how much the "snowmageddon" was fact and how much was fiction.
Hope you're doing all right out there. So I presume the entire capitol's basically shut down? I know that at the very least a Congressional hearing on the financial crisis was canceled today due to snow.
Integral,
We're doing fine, aside from very sore muscles from all the shoveling. Snowmageddon is one of a very few storms where the hype is actually true. We had 5 foot tall snowdrifts on the Metro tracks yesterday, so they couldn't run. There was really no safe way to get into the city unless one could walk. It's nice out right now but its also very icy. We'll have some semblance of normality by sunday morning, but apparently, Snowmageddon 4 is on its way on Monday. Everywhere you look, the piles of snow are human height. All that water has to go somewhere...
I expect several things to change because of this storm.
1) It is now utterly apparent that the city is reliant upon MetroRail for operation. As is the federal government. I expect funding problems to be resolved.
2) Telecommuting will finally start breaking through and being adopted en masse
Note that 1/3 of the gov't has managed to keep working, per the post
"About one-third of the D.C. area employees at the Office of Personnel Management and the General Services Administration logged on to their agencies' mainframe computers, probably from their homes," The Post's Joe Davidson writes today. "If the stats for those agencies are indicative of what happened around town, then the blizzard of 2010 may mark a real turning point in Uncle Sam's approach to telework."
"About 103,000 -- or almost 9 percent -- of eligible federal employees telecommuted in 2008, which was an improvement from the year before," according to The Post's Nicole Norfleet.
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