The weather and the NFL

So, if you live in Washington, DC and haven't heard of the NFL Kickoff on National Mall, then you need to come out of the rock you're hiding under and do things either than read this blog. Yes, tonight there will be mayhem on the Mall and all around it, right about at rush hour. Add the normal end of summer, start of school traffic increase and thousands of concert and NFL fans, and well, there are going to be a lot of traffic and transit problems. Why is DC and the National Park Service putting everyone through this horror? Well, the NPS is getting a lot of free advertising through this venture and DC hopes to make a bid for the Super Bowl. The Office of Personal Management encouraged employees to take annual leave time and WMATA encouraged everyone to take the Metro, which by the way will run till 2am Friday morning to handle the extra people.

In addition to all the fun, it looks like we will have thunderstorms tonight. Woo, imagine, you too could be wet, cold, muddy and trapped in a metro car with a few hundred tourists, after watching a concert in the rain and probably only see little itty-bitty bodies dance on stage(there are already people camped out for the good seats). Fun. This year has been a record breaking year with all the rain. If I wanted Seattle or San Francisco weather, I would live there, at least they don't get a couple of feet of snow along with all the rain. Why so much rain, well, it looks like we can blame it on the jet stream. Darn jet stream, I'll get you yet!