Anyone going to the INAUGURATION...
 

Wold love to hear a first hand account of the experience from a Cellarite. Should be awesome, and cold. Dress warm!

http://www.accuweather.com/us/dc/was...Chg=1&metric=0

Hey, Glatt works down there and Pie isn't too far - either of you going?
I think my sister is going without tickets - that should be interesting! She is only about 15 minutes away.

I'd love to go! But I can't, so I hope someone posts about it, too.

I tried to get tickets from 4 different sources, but struck out each time. They claim it's a lottery, but I think the truth is you have to know somebody well to get tickets. Everyone I know who has tickets also has a close connection to some congress kritter. I wouldn't want to go unless I had a good view. Watching the event from a mile away on a jumbotron is not my idea of fun. That's how it would be without tickets.

It's going to be easier for people from far away to get there than for locals to. Chartered tour busses will be allowed downtown, but local traffic will be blocked. They are closing all the bridges from VA to DC. All the officials are saying you should walk because the expected visitors will be about 2-3 times the capacity that public transportation can handle.

I'm actually a little relieved that I got no tickets because it means I don't have to figure out how to get down there. A 4 hour walk there and a 4 hour walk back would be the most likely result, and I'm not up for that with kids.

It's going to be a freaking zoo. I'll watch it on tv from my warm living room. We get the day off at least, because the streets around my building are closed. And metro will be unusable.

I intend to stay as far as away from DC as I can.

Well, as far away as Pennsylvania, anyway.

My husband and I are carefully avoiding it. It's going to be awful in person -- I'll watch it on tv. We briefly thought about attending, but realized we weren't crazy enough to survive the crowds.

My friends (the two J's) are flying out to Washington DC on Sunday. They will be in the area and partaking of the general celebrations and watching on the big screens.

:eek:Here's what the road closures are expected to look like:

I don't really understand the draw. If he turns out to be a completely legendary miracle worker or gets a double tap to the skull you can tell the grandkids, "I was there when Obama was sworn in..." but otherwise inauguration day just doesn't seem that big a deal to me.

A friend who lives outside of Washington said some of their neighbors rented their houses out for the inauguration at $15,000. Even hotels in Lancaster County PA (about 100 miles away?) are profitting from the overflow.

I've heard the same and seen a lot of that on the news - insane I say! The people who rent from farther away are gonna have serous issues getting to the inauguration with all the road closures.

At the time, I thought 20 Jan was on the weekend. Did not ask him if that was $15K for two days, also including the weekend, or a whole week.

Wow forgot that - Either way thats some serious cash for a few days or a week.

I may go. I'm not sure yet. It depends on some business travel plans that are up in the air. It should be a spectacle, though.

Alot of people were doing that in Denver during the DNC. most of them were renting for the week at 10-30k. I actually thought about subleasing our house for the week, since we were gone, anyway. People were renting houses in outer suburbs for almost as much.