It’s been a brutal week for trees at PoP HQ. This is on 4th Street, NW near Taylor.
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A few more weeks until DC’s pools open…
I’ll take this opportunity to share a delayed photo recently uploaded to the PoPville flickr pool by macwright taken just a few short months ago:
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But man are these giant snow piles leaving filthy messes. There are a number of triangle parks around Petworth that look like a bomb hit them.
Has anyone else noticed these spots around town that used to hold huge piles of snow and now are big mud piles?
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I don’t think I’d ever seen a fountain freeze over like this before.
Thanks to Marc from 2 bars + 3 stars for sending.
Warning do not watch if you have recently ingested hallucinogenics…
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Next to a tree falling is this. PoPville twitter follower chelseydc is having some leakage problems from the snow. Even the lamp is filling up with water:
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Aaron sends word that the Enterprise on Georgia Ave deposited all the snow from their lot onto the sidewalk.
I checked it out and the piles were gigantic. But I did see a guy trying to chop through it so maybe they have fixed the situation. Aaron also sends this rather cool artistic path:
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Photo by PoPville flickr user Suse_dc
The following was written by Josh Glasstetter in American City.
Snow Excuse
Right now, the city is inadvertently letting sidewalk scofflaws off the hook. If a sidewalk isn’t cleared, the city is supposed to clear it and charge the cost to the responsible party—plus a $25 maximum fine. That sounds good in theory, but the city simply doesn’t have a shovel-wielding army to unleash on city sidewalks. The result is that many sidewalks go uncleared, and nobody pays for it—except for the city’s pedestrians.
Washington needs an ordinance that has teeth and can be enforced. If some residents, landlords, and business owners are unwilling to clear their sidewalks, then the city should be able to issue citations akin to parking tickets. The police and public works employees clearly have their hands full during snowstorms, so citations should be issued primarily by other city employees (e.g. parking enforcement staff). And the city could prioritize enforcement by relying largely on tips from 311.
I, for one, would eagerly phone in a report about about a grocery store near me—fully staffed and open for business, but with unshoveled sidewalks—or the gas stations I’ve passed with plowed and salted lots but unshoveled sidewalks. But without a revised law on the books, there’s little any pedestrian can do but trudge on in disgust.
You can read the full story here. Do you agree? Does DC need to change its shoveling laws?
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Even I’m getting bored of snowman of the day…
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Photo by PoPville flickr user norbert
From a reader:
“I know there has been many names for this storm but I’m calling it Moby Dick.
If I have to shovel one more inch…
… to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
Yep big, white and a pain in the ass”
Awesome! Your poems welcome in the comments!