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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]

NYC got 15 inches of snow. Boston got 23 inches. DC got 6.

Also, it seems rich for longtime DC residents to accuse transplants of being whiners about the weather. Have you lived anywhere north of here? Where I grew up, they don't cancel school unless it's snowing so much that you can't see the road in front of you. [/quote]

We got 5 inches of snow, not 6, but then we did also get another 4 inches of sleet on top of it. Capital Weather Gang said it was the equivalent volume of frozen precipitation to 20 inches of snow, but heavier and more compact.

I think the removal has been very bad, even with that being the case, but there's no reason to pretend that the legitimate problems from the ice are just imaginary. D.C. definitely doesn't have the snow removal infrastructure that Boston has, because most years, D.C. gets nowhere near as much snow as Boston does -- if we had Boston-level snow plows sitting around unused every year, we'd all find that to be an outrageous waste of money.[/quote]

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