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Shovel Patrol: Adrian Fenty
Washington City Paper embarked Sunday afternoon upon an SUV-assisted inspection of various notable persons' sidewalks. Did they comply with their civic duty to clear walkways for pedestrians within...
View ArticleAre You Freaking Out Yet?
One Shepherd Park resident just reported on the listserv that they have lost power. And long lines have been reported in grocery stores across the city. The Harris Teeter on the Hill is experiencing...
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Whiteout Conditions Sideline Plows, Pepco Crews
This morning's windblown snowmass has temporarily halted city plowing crews, officials say. As in other regional jurisdictions, low visibility due to blizzard conditions has made it impossible to...
View ArticleCould Be Tuesday Before City Fully Recovers, Says Fenty
It could be Tuesday before the city is "up on all cylinders," Mayor Adrian M. Fenty said this morning. The statement is a step back from Hizzoner's aggressive talk over the weekend, about having the...
View ArticleD.C. Fire And EMS Respond To 250 Calls, Deliver Baby In Shaw
D.C. Fire and EMS have responded to 250 calls since midnight, according to spokesperson Pete Piringer. "The calls that we've had are taking us longer for obvious reasons," he tells City Desk. "We've...
View ArticleSnowed Under: How Are Funeral Homes Dealing?
A number of local funeral homes have had to postpone work due to the snow storm(s). Ronald Taylor's Funeral Home has had to postpone four burials at the request of grieving families. "They don't want...
View ArticleSnow Prompts Councilmembers to Try Armchair Mayoring
In the past five days, the District of Columbia has seen more snowfall than it has ever seen at once before. Put simply, it's about as close to a weather-related municipal crisis as any mayor could...
View ArticleDCPS: Two Make-Up Days Set, Perhaps More
With this afternoon's announcement that school is canceled for tomorrow, the D.C. Public Schools will have lost four instructional days by the time they're expected to open on Tuesday. (Friday was...
View ArticleChris Matthews Pounds Fenty Snow Response
Chris Matthews had knives out for Mayor Adrian M. Fenty on his MSNBC show tonight, calling D.C. "a city that can't plow its streets." "Why can't a government town do a government job?" he asked. "It...
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Bring Back the Flamethrowers!
That's the snow-removal suggestion of reader Scott W. Langill, who cites the methods used to deal with John F. Kennedy's 1961 presidential inauguration: The [Army Corps of Engineers] teamed up with...
View ArticleDick Durbin Goes Batshit Over D.C. Snow
More snow machismo/grandstanding, this time on the Senate floor, courtesy of Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.): I never could get over how people in this town reacted to snow. I am convinced that infants...
View ArticleWeekend In Review: Tommy Wells On Race And The Bag Tax
Today's "storm" is expected to be nothing more than a dusting for us snow vets. And yet that extra inch or two of snow will only make digging out my car that much more difficult. Yes, I have one of the...
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More Than You Want to Know About the Eco-Impact of Snowmelt
In case you didn't notice, there's a lot of water decorating the District of Colombia these days—many inches of it, frozen into piles on every street and beside every sidewalk. With sunshine and...
View ArticleNot Shoveling Your Sidewalk Can Kill
View Larger Map Hey, asshole. Yeah—talking to you, guy who didn't shovel his sidewalk after 35 inches of snow. Asa Fukuhara, a 32-year-old Agriculture Department engineer, died yesterday in Prince...
View ArticleDCPS Announces Snow Make-Up Days
The D.C. Public Schools have decided how students will make up the four-and-a-half days in the classroom they lost due to Snowpocalypse 2010. As LL noted earlier this month, students will be expected...
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