Clark Ray Supports Declaring Region a Federal Disaster Area to Get Federal Funds Calls for National Weather Service to Have DC Station for Official DC Weather Reporting
Posted Feb 10th 2010
Clark Ray today called for support of Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton as she asks the President to declare DC and the surrounding region a Federal Disaster Area enabling us to get federal funds to assist in the snow clean-up. Since the DC area is home to massive parts of the federal government work force and Congress it is only fair that the federal government assist in paying the cost of quickly opening federal buildings and the Capitol.
In addition, Ray asked that once this area is declared a federal disaster area for the purpose of dealing with these storms, that Norton call on the National Weather Service to open an official weather reporting station in DC.
Ray stated, “I support meteorologist Bob Ryan’s view that we should measure District snow fall at the Smithsonian Castle. The time has come to respect DC enough that we report our weather from an actual DC location rather than from one in Virginia. There is often a wide difference, as there was in this weeks’ storms, from the District’s actual snow totals to what gets officially reported from National Airport. This will also help in future requests for federal assistance. Aside from anything else, we deserve to know what our weather is here and not have to rely on reports from Virginia.”
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