Holly_Morris's Blog

In addition to what Starr wrote, I also think it's because the DC area job market (ie: The Feds) employ many people from all over the country....including snow virgins. So some people aren't used to driving in the snow or ice, because they never drove in snow or ice before.

I saw one man being interviewed this morning. He had a beautiful car, a Mercedes I think, and he could barely speak English, being from Africa to judge by his accent. He and the car had ended up way off the road, and he still wasn't sure why. Being in the "capitol of the world" is cool but it has its drawbacks.

Well, on the way to work this morning I was at a traffic light and heard a car horn bleep and then a crunching noise. I looked at my side mirror and there was an nice 3 car accident in the left turn lane.

The major roads and highways were treated here and driving on them wasn't bad at all. So that accident was either due to a patch of black ice or bad driving or a combination of both.

Speaking about bad driving.....why do people with 4 wheel drive vehicles think they can drive 35 mph in a 25 mph zone on ice? I saw more than one moron neighbor zoom down the street this morning and the street had not been treated and was slippery.

Then there's the government involvement in the paralysis. I remember back in 2000 coming up to Christmas. We had already had a couple snows and were a threat for another. The fedgov decided to release everyone early. So instead of the normal staggered release of employees, everyone was out on the road at the same time. It took me 3 hours to go about 5 miles; gridlock on the streets as folk pulled into the intersections on the green light, only to go nowhere. I gave up. I pulled my car into a parking lot and walked home.