DC Winters

Winter in Washington, DC is a truly unique time. Other cities may have colder temps and they may get more snow but no one has as many kooks as us when it comes to the white stuff, snow not cocaine.

When I first moved to DC, in my younger days, I was amazed at people’s reactions to a little snow. In my naiveté I thought these were people who had just moved to the area and had never seen any snow before. Of course, now I can’t believe how dumb I was but hey, we were all dumb once.

As the years passed I saw this craziness repeat itself over and over again. I came to realize that the people who lived in this area are truly crazy and panicky, when it comes to the white stuff, snow not cocaine. The weird thing is that DC’zens don’t panic when it comes to things like wars but when there is the slightest hint of snow everyone loses their minds.

Is it because so many of us are not from the DC area? Because we don’t know how to react to the white stuff, snow not cocaine? Because we are idiots? I don’t know the reason, all I know is that the same people seem to panic over the same miniscule amount of snow every year. Its either that or I observe a very small circle of people.

Of course, as is true with everything else, there are people who blame the media for this attitude. They say the media hypes the storm and the people have no choice but to panic. They cannot explain why, after having gone through this thing multiple times, the people still continue to panic. Are we that dumb? Don’t we have a higher number of graduates than any other U.S. city? Are people with graduate degrees that dumb?

I remember last year when the weathermen, meteorologists, cuckoos, whatever you call them, called for multiple storms and nothing happened. The cuckoos blamed the anchors, I think Topper Schutt (love that name) did that. The anchors blamed the weather people. Everyone blamed each other and they all said they had learned their lesson.

Of course, it’s 2006 now and, this being DC, we are back to THE UPCOMING STORM.