Anyone who can afford Sidwell Friends can pay *somebody* to take their kids to school, in a snowplow if necessary.
Obama paid for that service out of his own pocket.
Regarding "ice" people in Chicago rarely have ice ~ it's an alien thing to them. What they have is "snow" ~ Lake Michigan gets "ice".
Ice, as any Souvrnr' can tell you is very dangerous, slippery, and sneaky. Mayor Barry taught us that if we wait for Spring it'll melt ~ no doubt Obama has consulted with the old man on that matter.
Anyway, we had between a half and a quarter inch right here. Threw some salt on it to create some thaw points, then busted it up with a steel snowshovel ~ cleared the walk and the drive in about 10 minutes. It took 20 minutes to clear the car (without damaging the finish).
If we'd had a half to a full inch of ice the power would have failed and we'd had a fullscale calamity such as they're actually having in Western Kentucky to Cincinatti.
As I pointed out last evening, Obama was probably asleep while those poor people were having trees fall on their homes, their cars slide down hills, people dying, roofs flooding, injuries by the carload, and he thinks the only risks anyone could have is to have a hurricane.
Obama should have been on the ground surveying Elizabethtown KY this morning at 6 AM, but he wasn't. The man has no compassion, and now he's ridiculing folks in the DC area for attempting to mitigate the hazard.
And where was FEMA? Did he tell them to just stand down, it's only a little ice storm?