Yes, I may be in DC 3 or 4 times in 2016. I’d enjoy meeting some CCers. 
Come to DC in the fall (my favorite season, but you knew that…). Seriously, Cherry Blossom time used to be nice, its is now so packed you cannot move. The entire spring season is over run with tourists/school groups. Summer is hot and muggy. Winter is…unpredictable.
Fall is lovely here. I’m up for a meet up anytime, though. (and I’m not this crabby IRL, I’ve just been snowed in for 4 days!).
We are all much nicer IRL. CC just brings out the best in us.
I am watching morning news. I see people in Queens are complaining that their streets are not plowed and officials are saying snow plows can’t get into those streets to plow. What I see is there are cars parked on both sides of the street, which makes the passage very narrow, especially with that much snow.
My street is plowed! But the plow hit one of the cable boxes and killed the TV and Internet. 
very surprised the DC government opened today… they were the only thing open (no school systems, no other local government, no federal government)
Well lots of offices were open, soccer guy. Including mine
I think it was a matter of most of the employees being able to get in. Unlike the federal government, the DC government offices aren’t spread out over multiple jurisdictions. Likely a lot of the DC employees are able to use public transportation. The schools have to stay closed until students can be safely transported by bus. Not surprising to me at all.
I drove to work today. The main roads were fine, except for the on and off ramps. They were quite difficult to navigate, and stopped and started rather suddenly. Rather treacherous for unsuspecting motorists.
I worked from home. Still waiting to get the 30 inches of snow plowed out of my street so we can get a car out. VDot promises by 6 AM tomorrow…
When i left at 11 or so, one street in our neighborhood still hadn’t been touched by a plow. When I came home, there was a very narrow path, that some cars might fit through. But I’m guessing that was done by residents and not the county. As of 4 we are not on the list of school clo sings, but it seems like it would be dangerous for kids to wait for busses in these conditions.
The main reason for the delayed cleanup in Queens is the fact it along with parts of Brooklyn got hit with more snow than the other boroughs(27.7 and 27.3 inches respectively) as opposed to Manhattan and other boroughs (~25 inches).
That and the fact Queens is the largest borough by geographic area so there’s a lot of places sanitation has not been able to reach in sufficient quantity to make a difference.
This is also not a new phenomenon to many longtime New Yorkers…especially Queens residents as traditionally, Manhattan tends to get far greater prioritization for cleanups both due to it being the business/political center of the city in many ways and the fact it’s nowhere near as geographically large in geographic area as the other boroughs. The fact Queens gets short shrift in snow cleanups and the corresponding complaints go back decades as one could gather from old news archives of prior blizzards in the last 40-50 years.
In fact, when there was a blizzard not too long after DiBlasio became mayor…what was actually newsworthy were complaints from Upper East Siders that they were being given short shrift in the snow cleanup:
as this was, indeed, quite unusual considering the UES is usually given top priority due to the fact it a well-off area populated by some of the wealthiest and politically well-connected residents in NYC.
On the flipside, Queens does tend to be perceived as getting more of the short shrift in this area along with the other outer boroughs…
I drove little bit in NoVA today. There is some melting with 55 degree weather. The issue I had was making right and left turns. At times it was hard to see the traffic because of the mountain pileups of snow on each corner. Grocery store parking lot was clean. Silver line on metro is still closed but I am hoping they will have the shuttles running to the orange line tomorrow.
^^My commute home to NoVA was hampered by main arteries that had the turn lanes blocked by snow. It took about 30 minutes to get through one intersection to make a right turn.
They may not have had anywhere else to put the cars.
In the DC area, some parking garages allowed people to park there for free, rather than leaving their cars on the street. It may have helped. But of course, I don’t know if there are any parking garages near those Queens streets.
There were pedestrians walking in the streets around my community today. Sidewalks are covered in all the plowed snow. Add to that the 6’+ piles of ice and slush at every intersection, and it’s very dangerous. Still lots of roads with reduced lanes. The exit from I-270 to my cardiac rehab facility was closed – hasn’t been plowed yet.
@HIMom, you’re safe to come to D.C. now. It’ll be another hundred years before this happens again! Or 90, really, to be accurate, I think they said.
Yea, but I’m not a fan of snow or ice. One of my dear friends slipped on ice in DC and had to have surgery. Am anxiously awaiting an update on his condition. Am supposed to see him in about s month, but not if he’s ordered to stop traveling for awhile.
OT–but if the crowds for Cherry Blossoms are too big in DC, you all should come to Newark (yes, Newark). Branch Brook Park has more cherry trees than Washington. Still gets crowds, but nothing like DC I imagine. And it’s breathtaking.
Whodathunkit, garland?
And great Portuguese food.