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My god. Some of these people in Washington D.C. need to spend a few weeks in somewhere like Pullman, or one of the other million places in the world where it actually snows.
During my first two weeks here in D.C., I’ve been greeted with two snowstorms, one Friday through Sunday and the other Tuesday through today. Sure the storms make the Metro difficult and its a little chilly, but you’d think all hell broke loose.
For the seventh straight day, the lead story on the front page of The Washington Post was about snow. One of America’s premier newspapers is apparently going the route of local news, where we apparently need to be told the weather every hour of the day, or twice an hour, building us up with fear until we retreat into hibernation.
It’s not news that there’s snow on the ground. All you have to do is look out the window. I can understand a short story on the front page about whether the Metro is running and if people are still out of power, but jeez, it’s overkill.
While walking along Connecticut Avenue the other day, I heard some panicky mom screaming to another lady “Oh my god, what about the children, what if they fall on the snow.”
News flash, the snow is soft and powdery. It is not a venomous hybrid of bone-crunching titanium and asbestos.
In fact, even if the snow is relatively cold, the children are probably safer falling on the snow than concrete, or even if the grass in most city parks.
Finally, I’ve heard the same joke a million times from old people being like “Haha, where’s this global warming thing I heard about, hahaha,” as if someone else didn’t make the same moronic comment.
Global warming is not linear. In fact, it leads to more violent temperature swings, causing both more heat waves and cold spells. But still, people just keep whining about their lives as if snow isn’t something that doesn’t just happen and is part of life.
Take a chill pill D.C. And for the media around the rest of the world, stop reporting on the blizzard like its the end of the world, even if it is the friggin capitol.

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