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Blizzards could blight Barack Obama's inauguration
The Australian ^ | January 12, 2009 | Agence France-Presse

Posted on 01/12/2009 5:17:41 AM PST by re_tail20

A STEEP temperature drop, a blizzard and a downpour could assail the millions expected to attend Barack Obama's presidential inauguration on January 20, officials said.

"Just given a sunny pleasant 50-degree day, just having that many people around town will be a problem, so any sort of weather issue on top of that is only going to exacerbate that,'' warned Christopher Strong, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

"No matter what happens, we'll be as well prepared as we can be given the enormous potential for crowds.''

Average late January temperatures in Washington fluctuate between minus six and plus four degrees Celsius, while the median temperature sits at about 2.7 degrees Celsius.

(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...


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To: re_tail20

“Average late January temperatures in Washington fluctuate between minus six and plus four degrees Celsius”.....

Just as cold and dead as the U.S. taxpayer.....


81 posted on 01/12/2009 11:07:29 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: null and void
kinky...

It was too cold to even be kinky....

82 posted on 01/12/2009 4:33:17 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: vetvetdoug

You didn’t horse around?


83 posted on 01/12/2009 7:03:00 PM PST by null and void (Hey 0bama, now that you've caught the car, what are you going to do with it, hmmm?)
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To: Ezekiel

I’ve never really liked the idea of the ceremony in January. Why don’t we change it to the 4th of July?


84 posted on 01/12/2009 7:33:16 PM PST by Diego1618
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To: Diego1618; Jeremiah Jr
I’ve never really liked the idea of the ceremony in January.

Yeah, there's a bad vibe to them, kind of like January space shuttle launches.

Arctic blasts swoop down from the north, kind of like Gog and company.

Wonder if "riding horses" is just a clever way of describing the big horse race.

America = Doyle Lonnegan

85 posted on 01/12/2009 9:39:44 PM PST by Ezekiel (Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.)
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86 posted on 01/13/2009 7:28:54 AM PST by redstates4ever ((Liberalism is a mental disorder.))
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To: Ezekiel
America = Doyle Lonnegan

Doyle and I played cards on the train one day. He lost! I then took my winnings and invested in the wire rackets.

He was really mad at me for mispronouncing his name and I think that's maybe how he got rattled and lost.

87 posted on 01/13/2009 8:22:07 AM PST by Diego1618
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