http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704182004575055601529152426.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_3
You gotta wonder if God is showing Congress what a real snow job is lol, or maybe he wants to talk to Obama about global warming, in any case what ever it is, it's a real attention getter, that's for sure.
God's either really got a sick sense of humor or payback is a bitch lol
All plows can do here is push snow from one spot to another, displacing it into shoulder-high escarpments, walling off parked cars, confounding pedestrians and blocking drivers' lines of sight.
William Howland has his own plan. In Lot 25, a vacant yard bordered by the Anacostia River, a derelict hospital and a congressional cemetery, Mr. Howland, the head of the D.C. Department of Public Works, is building a snow mountain. Around 15 dump trucks an hour arrive and unload their cargo, a gray-white mass of snow, sand, grit and ice. Earth-movers pile it into an enormous bank that snakes its way around the yard. This is just the start of his 200-truck, round-the-clock operation.
"We'll pile it as high as we can," Mr. Howland said. "Pretty soon will be able to ski down it."
For Washington, the winter of 2010, which blanketed the capital with about 45 inches before Tuesday, seems likely to break the record 54.5 inches set a decade after record-keeping began in 1888. "I don't know any staff member that's been around that remembers snowfalls of this magnitude," Mr. Howland said.
The bigger Washington's bureaucracy becomes, the worse the consequences of shutting down. Some 230,000 federal employees have been off work since the once-in-a-century blizzard dumped about 30 inches of snow on the capital last weekend
