STATE OF EMERGENCY...

Sweet Jesus...the District of Columbia declared a state of emergency on Tuesday afternoon. Just exactly WHY they did so remains a mystery...
Most of the rain was passed...(it did rain heavily over night, but not enough to threaten the end of life on earth).
I had occasion to see the woman in charge of the DC office of Emergency
Freak-Outs as she announced this step to the media. She was broadcasting from the command bunker...(where ever the hell it may be)...If you don't have the privilege or, more appropriately fortune to live in DC then what I am about to say might not matter to you...but just in case you care about the capitol of the country...well...WE ARE FUCKED!
Almost all of the Emergency Center staff is EEOC...now, there is nothing wrong with helping folks get a leg up on life...but ya know, I'd rather not have the junior college drop outs and the semi-literate working in or managing ANY activity in which the word "EMERGENCY" is included in the title. The country is filled with educated, articulate people of many races who could work there and in whom I would feel at least a modicum of faith if not actual confidence...but declaring an emergency two full days after the Mall is squishing with overflow is not quite acting in a timely manner. To make it worse, I have had access to some of the planning and all of the study's done on this in the DC Metro area...
My suggestion to you all is, come visit DC while it is still here to visit...if we have a real natural disaster the folks around here will make Brown and Nagin look like the smartest men on earth...if we have a man-made disaster, like a small nuke, courtesy of Kim Il-fatshit or the Mad Mullahs in Iran, I guarantee that the Command Bunker folks will be amongst the first to load up their Lexus SUV and head for the Shenandoah Valley...
In fairness the reports I have seen indicate that just about any US city would be in deep doo-doo in similar situations...but DC will lead the way in what-not-to-do with such elan and acumen that it will make the New Orleans and Louisana officials pale by comparison...
Now, I must go continue work on the ark...