Above from the Palisades:
“I don’t know who you are or where you live. But your GALL in parking in front of my house and abandoning your car for more than a week is RUDE, DISGUSTING, and DESPICABLE. You are thoughtless and have no class.
I with you nothing bu the worst. Karma will get you. You are a lousy piece of CRAP, stupid, and grossly inconsiderate.”
Whew.
And on the flip side:
“Dear PoPville,
When you leave a swath of public space you do NOT have any entitlement to it. You privatized it after somebody left it. No matter the weather circumstances. No matter what message or items you leave behind to claim it. If I could I would destroy each and every one of these self-absorbed parklets, and leave individualized messages about why they suck.
I have never seen DC residents sink so low. DC is NOT Boston or Philly.
Digging your car out entitles you to NOTHING.
You paid for a zone sticker. That’s all you are legally entitled to. And there is no established code surrounding shoveled out spaces in DC. There never has been. Because snow in DC is infrequent.
The amount of complaining (unbridled) and spot-saving behavior, however limited, is just counter to the overall decency of Washingtonians.
As a good deal of melt occurred today, and heavy machinery continues to make its way across the city, including alleys, many of the complaining monkeys, who started to come out last Wednesday, should be ashamed about their expressions, before they had a clue about the difficulty of moving such a hardened mass.
DC has a $7 mill annual budget for snow removal.
From ‘22-‘24 there wasn’t even a .01 registered inch of snow. Cumulatively.
Watch the cost of responding to this storm event soar toward and past $50 mill, given overtime and contractors.
Further, destruction of property, cars and street infrastructure, and the plows of light weight pickup truck plow operators, will add millions more when all is told.
The point of the dude’s story?
Unexpectedly difficult storm.
City lacked the capacity to get a full swipe at streets on Sunday before things became glacial.
Mayor was checked out on communication, deferring to anonymous agency heads to blurb about efforts where most residents don’t access news and information.
And by Wednesday the Karen complainers came out, concluding that their block was the most ignored in the city.
Sadly, it spiraled from there.
Some truly ugly expressions that demonstrated no consideration for the broader well-being of others.
Had Bowser been engaged she could have easily tamped down a lot of the pull up crying crowd. But 3 days passed. Her pulling a Marion Barry move. Her arrogance has indeed grown mighty over the years, but I never thought she would embarrass herself as much as Barry did re: a snowstorm.
And she was in town the whole time.
Anyway, I hope the community can take a deep breath, and recognize how freakish this weather event was and know that by the time that a lot of these snow mounds melt it will be March!!”