seriously people, its just snow

does anyone else feel like new mayor adrian fenty totally let us down in our first major snow storm? i thought it was bad enough that i didn't see any plows out at 7am wednesday morning . I mean, i heard this snow was anticipated as of saturday -- if that's not enough warning, i don't know what is. however, with the two hour delay for the government, i was willing to cut him some slack as i was only the second person to even venture out of my neighborhood on foot. i fully expected my neighbors to fall down on the job. this is dc, so it didn't surprise me that only 2 houses had shoveled their sidewalks in a 5-block walk to the metro and that this morning all that unshoveled snow had been walked on and compressed into lumpy, icy death traps. what did surprise me was that the sidewalks that fall into the public domain were still encased in snow a full 24 hours after the initial snowfall and causing some serious pedestrian back up by the foggy bottom metro. we are talking about entire sections of sidewalk just totally abandoned by the district of columbia. its by a hospital for goodness sakes! people in wheelchairs and crutches are much more likely to be frequenting the area. and considering that this is a relatively nice part of the area that the city typically caters to pleasing, i don't even want to know what areas in ne & se dc looked like. needless to say, with the warmest year on record (or something close to it) i think the city could have brought out all the stops for our one snowstorm. for shame, fenty, for shame.