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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Why does it matter when someone moved here? Whether someone has been here for 40 years or 4 years, if they are a taxpayer, they deserve to have competent city services. [/quote]

Welcome to the South!  DC is now handling storms as if we live in Raleigh, NC where I grew up.  It's fine to just let the snow melt and chill out if you're a Southern city that gets a major storm once a decade.  That's what our weather looks like, more and more, so our policies are changing to be those which are rational for a Southern city.

The next part of the equation: new transplants proclaim their Northern city's superiority while us southerners roll our eyes and make an apple pie.[/quote]

Ok, well, DC says it owns more than 300 snowplows. Buffalo has 36. [/quote]

That’s because they contract out snow plowing events.[/quote]

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