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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve lived here since 1993 and have never seen a storm like this (snow then sleet that quickly compacted into ice, followed by a record-breaking cold snap). I shoveled multiple times on Sunday and the ground was already concrete by early evening. The vast majority of the plows in DC can easily handle snow but not a slab of ice. I’m not sure what all the people whining about this wanted the city to do?

And the whiners — almost all of them very recent transplants — also conveniently neglect to point out that things are just as bad in Virginia, Maryland, Philly, NYC (the crowing by Mamdani fanboys has been overtaken by complaints, and how many homeless there have died because of his new policies) and Boston. They act as if DC alone is struggling.[/quote]

If the city’s leadership cannot respond to a weather event in an appropriate amount of time (ie, within a day), it has failed its main responsibility to its citizens. And as “once a century” weather events become more and more regular, the excuse that these are unprecedented just doesn’t cut it - it just means that the leadership has a failure of imagination and planning. It’s really sad. [/quote]

This type of event has not become more regular. They've happened, on average, every 7 years for the past 100 years.  If anything they've become less common.

They've also never been this unique combination of circumstances.  I'm sorry that reality doesn't match your rhetoric.  [/quote]

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