January 28, 2009, 2:50 pm
Obama to DC: Toughen Up
A light layer of ice covers the Holly bushes and paths leading up to the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009, after an ice and snow storm moved through the Washington area overnight. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Obama, who said his girls' school was closed due to the ice storm, gave the tounge-in-cheek remark as the area grapples with the worst storm of the season. Washington DC, which receives on average 20 inches of ice each year. Chicago, on the other hand, gets almost double, at 38.5 inches annually. Obama is, of course, from Chicago.
Word has it that the Obama girls were quite pleased with the snow day, saying that their school in Chicago never closed for ice or snow. Government employees, on the other hand, were not given a snow day; I'm sure that endeared them to the new boss.
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pianoguy wrote on January 29, 2009, 11:23 am:
Ice or nice? That is the question. I guess he's just learning how whimpy DCers can be (God forbid they move to Massachusetts!)Actually, if WE had ice like that, they'd stop everything. But then that's California.