The mess that’s D.C.
By Silver Springer • Mar 13th, 2008 • Category: News Round Up
Raise your hand if you were awakened by the sound of a pesky news helicopter (if I’m not mistaken) buzzing around downtown Silver Spring.
D.C. was more than the usual mess today, the perfect storm quite frankly. It took me an hour and a half to get from downtown Silver Spring to downtown D.C. All major arteries east of Rock Creek were blocked. Midway, a little pasted Walter Reed, Georgia Ave was blocked and I think (unfortunately) I saw a little girl laying in the street being pulled onto a stretcher. The biggest mess of all was on 16th street because of an apartment building fire between Meridian and Irving probably because someone was dumb enough to use their oven to heat their home again. I don’t know what possessed me to go considering the problem started well before.
How about we get some kind of limit on how long these choppers can stay in our air space at certain times of the day? If D.C. F’ed up why should Silver Spring have to pay for it?
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Yes, and they export their crime to Silver Spring as well.
Amen, it was horrible this morning. It started at 6:10 AM and they left before 8:00 AM. It was a traffic helicopter. The only place that helicopter could go was in between the spot of the fire and Silver Spring because of the White House and other government buildings downtown.
So can someone explain to me why ambulance service/vehicles for D.C. residents are paid for by the “good Samaritans” of Montgomery County, Maryland?
Those helicopters sucked ass! Did it really take three of them to report traffic on 16th Street?
[quote comment="4006"]Those helicopters sucked ass! Did it really take three of them to report traffic on 16th Street?[/quote]
Wow there were three? I only saw one!
Three of them, dude.
I was surprised to learn that the fire was further down in The District than the helicopters’ positions would suggest. To top it off, none of the local news programs had aerial footage of the fire. Just stuff shot from the street.
Again, what was the point in three choppers?
[quote comment="4008"]Three of them, dude.
I was surprised to learn that the fire was further down in The District than the helicopters’ positions would suggest. To top it off, none of the local news programs had aerial footage of the fire. Just stuff shot from the street.
Again, what was the point in three choppers?[/quote]
I was just about to ask that, I did not see any aerial footage on TV either.
Yea Fox 5 showed arial footage for a few seconds!
So Fox 5’s eye in the sky woke me up one hour earlier than usual just to show a few seconds of footage?!?
Late night at the AFI, Ambien CR (12.5), as the Lunachicks sang, Missed It.
On the BCC Rescue Squad…as the article you linked discusses, most of the squad’s $$ do not come from MD resident taxes. If you look at their financial info on their website (http://www.bccrs.org/about/allocation.html), their total budget is $1.35M, of which $1.13M comes from individual donations (and some additional $$ from businesses, estates, etc.). I’m in DC, and they fundraise in my neighborhood every year (and, yes, I donate). According to the article, they get 15% of their donations from DC and DC accounts for 15% of their calls. So it seems to even itself out.
So why don’t you take the Metro instead? And for SilverSpringer who wants to know why NW DC benefits from the “good samaratins” of Montgomery County, maybe because WE PAY FOR IT TOO! You’re not the only one who gets the charitable donation forms - or have you ever got that …? Also, maybe its because we in DC have to breathe your exhaust fumes, and pay for your police and ambulance services, among other things, every time you travel to work by car and then leave the city in order to spend your money and tax dollars somehwere else. This is one metro region, so let’s think that way please.