Advice for those going to the inaugural (Baby, its gonna be cold & wet outside - stay home)

Commercial Appeal ^ | 1/11/09 | Bartholomew Sullivan

[They'reGone2000]

This woman has the Michelle "look" figured out:

A stage director adjusts the placement of stand ins for the President-elect Barack Obama and his family during a dress rehearsal for the Inauguration Ceremony at the US Capitol in Washington , Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009. Standing in for the President-elect is Army Sgt. Derrick Brooks. Standing in for Michelle Obama is Navy Yeoman 1st Class LaSean McCray and standing in for the children are Gianna Justice Samira-Nixon and Dominique Sewell

[HollyB]

Bathrooms in the metro stations will be closed.

[rllngrk33]

Bathrooms in the metro stations will be closed.

There are bathrooms in the Metro stations? In all the time I've been riding Metro I have yet to see one.

I work in DC and live in the MD. suburbs, my advice is to stay away from DC until at least Thursday.

[Mike Darancette]

This could be a disaster. Don’t they take the inauguration inside when the weather is bad? The weather for the 20th is forecast to be just about as bad as it gets in DC? Not a whole Lot of people will get to watch an inauguration inside.

People should be told to stay away from the ceremony and watch it on TV. People could die.

[Mike Darancette]

any one who wants to see this travesty deserves the worst possible weather....

And from the weather report they are going to get it; temperatures in low 20s heavy snow, and wind. It will probably not be held outside.

[Vaquero]

9th President of the United States
In office
4 March 1841 – 4 April 1841
Vice President John Tyler
Preceded by Martin Van Buren
Succeeded by John Tyler

[giotto]

Even if Abraham Lincoln were being inaugurated, there is no way I would be one of those 4 million idiots out there, fighting 800 other desperate people for one filthy toilet, freezing and hungry and tired and...bored. Yes, that would be the worst of all, the absolute boredom of it all. I don't even plan to watch it on TV, let alone subject myself to the mob on the mall. I'll be watching Blade Runner on my new Blu-Ray player.

[riri]

I don't even plan to watch it on TV, let alone subject myself to the mob on the mall.

I wouldn't go if I had a real invite with the rest of the elites, Let alone under the conditions of the serfs. No thanks.

[Libloather]

I'll be watching Blade Runner on my new Blu-Ray player.

Unless its some kind of holiday, most Americans should be at WORK!

[giotto]

You’re right, it is a work day, which I had forgotten in the midst of all this hoopla, so my TV watching will begin in the evening. But I wouldn’t be surprised to find that most workplaces will have TVs tuned to the inauguration festivities throughout the day, making it hellish for at least half of all employees. Fortunately, I’m self-employed.

[erman]

this Inauguration is going to be fun.... from my house. I can't imagine the collection of lunatics, freaks and libs all in the mosh pit of DC.

Freaky-Deaky...

[doug from upland]

That photo, by the way, is real. It was an incredible ice storm in Switzerland in 2005. That is Lake Geneva.

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/ice-storm-photos.shtml