Welcome To DC Weather & Roads, President Barry

I live just outside D.C., and yes, this area cripples when even moderate amounts of weather winter hit the ground, but that’s because this area isn’t equipped to deal with it due to its infrequency. Don’t tell that to the nation’s capital’s newest resident:

“Do schools in the Washington area shut down at the drop of a snowflake or glint of an icicle?”

That is the view of President Obama, who poked fun this morning at his daughters’ school — Sidwell Friends — and others in the region for declaring a snow day. “Because of what?” he asked. “Some ice?”

“We’re going to have to apply some flinty Chicago toughness to this town,” Obama said this morning. “I’m saying that when it comes to the weather, folks in Washington don’t seem to be able to handle things.”

I’ve got a truck so I can get around just fine most the time, but I’ll likely be surrounded by knuckleheads driving like bumper cars all around me. There were several cars on the side of the road on my way in this morning including a nastily dislodged bumper. Perhaps I should have stopped and told that mangled car part that it needed “some flinty Chicago toughness.”

Lucky for us, WaPo contacted Sidwell’s associate head of school, Ellis Turner, who took a jab at Obama over his Hawaii school grade years:

“I suppose Sidwell Friends could merge with Punahou, move our classrooms to Hawaii and never worry about the weather again.”

I wonder if Nancy Pelosi has considered that if she was able to push her economy-stimulating contraceptives out a dozen years ago we wouldn’t even have to worry about getting kids to school in bad weather.

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