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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not just DC that can't handle the snow. I was at UVA back in 1986 -87.  We had a biggish storm that dropped some snow. OMG you wouldn't believe how they freaked out! Said they'd never had that kind of snow, didn't actually own any snowplows, closed schools and government that morning before the snow even hit.  I went to the movies and laughed at all of them.  So, the more the things change the more they stay the same..[/quote]

That was during the infamous Barry years, when the ex-Mayor-for-Life's concept of "snow removal" was done with nostrils, a mirror and a straw.  Indeed, you may be referring to the storm where he out of town, found strung out on cognac and crack in L.A.  Asked upon his return how DC would get rid of the snow, Barry helpfully said "spring."  By the time Barry served jail time and slithered back into the District Building in the mid-1990s, things still hadn't improved, and the blizzard of January '96 was even worse in DC.  When the control board and Mayor Williams came in, they bought snow plows and DC's record through the Williams and Fenty years was much improved.

The DC government did not handle the big storm in late January this year at all well.  Still, despite Vincent Gray's apparent back-to-the-future nostalgia for the lazy, crazy days of the Barry era, winter storm work is still a lot better than it once was.  [/quote]

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