Snowmageddon

Why is there SO much coverage in the news of snow in Washington, DC? Granted, they’ve had a lot this winter and the totals have been much higher than normal for that neck of the woods, but it DOES snow there and it’s winter - February no less!

What has happened to us that we are so fascinated with things that don’t amount to a hill of beans? Ok. Record breaking snowfall is a story for a day or two, beyond that, it’s just silly. What about adding a thoughtful twist to the story, say, on day two? Something like, what happens to all of the District’s homeless people when there’s 30-40 inches of snow on the ground around the benches they sleep under. I wonder how many of them participated in the big Dupont Circle snow ball fight?

I guess being inundated with news about big snow totals beats the screeching about how illegal immigrants are going to be the death of the U.S. or the incessant fussing about how the President’s healthcare bill is going to bring the country to its knees, or (locally) the I-know-better-than-you-do debate about MPS.

I think it was President Obama who referred to the Washington snow fall as “snowmageddon,” perhaps as another good-humored jab at the citizenry’s inability to handle the season’s weather. Let’s hope the word doesn’t make it to the dictionary.