Wife and I happened to be on vacation (pre-planned) to Williamsburg at that time. They shut down the Williamsburg-to-Jamestown parkway, and had put up hundreds (if not thousands) of bright-and-shiny orange and white plastic saw-horse barricades, even blocking off “point of interest” parking pull-offs along roads that were open. Wonder how much all of those cost.
The kicker was when they blocked off access to Mt. Vernon, until the private organization that runs the place pointed out that they weren’t subject to the shutdown!
Quite the memorable journey through Obama waste and abuse.
Oh, I remember the stories on how they spent more money than they usually would have just to block off places so people would notice.
The Mount Vernon one was hysterical.
I was not personally affected in the least.