Ok it snowed. This forum is filled with wit and insight about the "government". How long before Washington, DC is functioning again with the national government and electrical power restored to the people? I'm betting Mother Nature melts the snow before FEMA gets the first press release about their immediate response to the snow disaster. Will this performance show improvement over the Katrina fiasco?

As a happy 'former' resident of Wisconsin & Minnesota, 30" is a big snow fall, but certainly not the end of the world.

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The longer the gov stays shut down, the better for all of us.

Hopefully, since FEMA should properly be the first responder in a Federal District. That wasn't the case in N'awlins.

There was indeed a fiasco in NO after Katrina. The Mayor of N'awlins and the Governor of La. who were in office at that time should both still be in jail for dereliction of duty.

In February of 1973 I measured 21" of snow in a 40 acre field on our farm. In other words, no drifts, just 21 inches on the flat. Temps dropped to near 0 for two nights after the snow. We were out of electricity on the farm for two weeks. Our neighbor had a 4wd tractor he used to break trail to our house. It was a good week before two-wheel drive vehicles could make it through. The neighbor came through on the tractor every morning to check on us and take an order for what we needed from a little country store about two miles away. Keep in mind, this is 100 miles South of Atlanta, so we weren't prepared for 2" of snow, much less 21".

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Georgia On My Mind

I have a hard time understanding the mindset of the people who sit around and wait for someone to come and take care of them. N.O. was a national disgrace, not because of FEMA but the unprepared masses who just sat there and let it happen to them. Then scream and holler that the free help isn’t fast enough or good enough.

The kicker for me was the idiots shooting at the relief helicopters. Those shooters are so lucky I was not in charge, I would have gotten a live news crew and a chopper with a 60 in the door. One or maybe two live broadcast of the firefight between idiots with popguns against National Guard M60 equipped helicopters would have done it.

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Warren

I remember that storm - we got 15" in Augusta, GA in that one. I made it to work . . .

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redlevel, we did much the same thing EVERY YEAR where I grew up in Oklahoma, but instead of snow, we had an inch or two of ice. You do what you can to prepare for it, you help your neighbors, and you get through it. If only some of these city folks and government types had a little country common sense....

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you mean the goverment was open................

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George Jamison

What's worse is some of the folks up here in Maine are jealous you kept all that snow down there. Snowmobilers and skiiers were hoping for some new snow to cover the ground.

You mean you guys are up to four months of bad sledding?

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I don't see any reason to help people that are too sorry and lazy to help themselves. Trying to help is really just enabling those people. Larry

I would think all those politicians and bureacrats and lobbyists could generate enough hot air to keep D.C. snow free.
We had about 10" here in Central NJ, light and powdery. No power loss in my area. I went outside about 0900 Saturday, the maintenance crew in the apartment complex I live in had already cleared the walks, most of the parking lot. Saw a neighbor lady busily shoveling part of the common walk, I shoveled the other section, shoveled the steps of my 78 years old neighbor. The libraries, the community college closed, the markets open.
I always laugh when there's a major snow storm and "non essential" government employees are told to stay home. Then they wonder why the Tea Party movement has grown so rapidly.

There was a very big difference in how Mississippi and rural Louisiana and New Orleans handled the aftermath of Katrina. In my county every road was blocked by downed trees and power poles. Cleanup was started before the storm was completely gone by citizens with chainsaws, tractors, trucks, and heavy equipment. At least one lane of every road was open by the next evening. There was no looting. (use your imagination) Thawing freezers were emptied and cooking was done and shared by using downed trees for fuel until markets reopened several days later. I took my bathes in the creek (no, there wasn't a fish kill) until the water was back up two weeks later. The only problem I really had was the severe bourbon shortage and Max and the little brown truck helped out on that a few days later.

Well northern Maine has snow, and the ski slopes can make their own as we certainly have cold enough weather. Southern and coastal Maine probably have a foot or less on the ground, and it is crusted over pretty hard. Not like the past 2 years where are snow banks were so high I you couldn't see my 3/4 Ton Chevy, with a cap on it, when it went down the driveway.